David C. Blackburn

PeerJ Author & Reviewer

Summary

I study the diversity and evolution of amphibians.

Evolutionary Studies Zoology

Editing Journals

Past or current institution affiliations

University of Florida

Work details

Associate Curator of Herpetology

University of Florida

Florida Museum of Natural History

Faculty curator overseeing the amphibian and reptile collections of the Florida Museum of Natural History.

Websites

PeerJ Contributions

March 12, 2019

A new ancient lineage of frog (Anura: Nyctibatrachidae: Astrobatrachinae subfam. nov.) endemic to the Western Ghats of Peninsular India

Seenapuram Palaniswamy Vijayakumar, Robert Alexander Pyron, K. P. Dinesh, Varun R. Torsekar, Achyuthan N. Srikanthan, Priyanka Swamy, Edward L. Stanley, David C. Blackburn, Kartik Shanker

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6457 PubMed 30881763

July 27, 2017

Two new species of the Brachycephalus pernix group (Anura: Brachycephalidae) from the state of Paraná, southern Brazil

Luiz F. Ribeiro, David C. Blackburn, Edward L. Stanley, Marcio R. Pie, Marcos R. Bornschein

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3603 PubMed 28761788

October 27, 2016

A new species of Brachycephalus (Anura: Brachycephalidae) from Santa Catarina, southern Brazil

Marcos R. Bornschein, Luiz F. Ribeiro, David C. Blackburn, Edward L. Stanley, Marcio R. Pie

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2629 PubMed 27812425

July 15, 2019 - Version: 1

Digitization and the future of natural history collections

Brandon Hedrick, Mason Heberling, Emily Meineke, Kathryn Turner, Christopher Grassa, Daniel Park, Jonathan Kennedy, Julia Clarke, Joseph Cook, David Blackburn, Scott Edwards, Charles Davis

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27859v1

June 5, 2013 - Version: 1

The Vertebrate Taxonomy Ontology: A framework for reasoning across model organism and species phenotypes

Peter E Midford, T Alex Dececchi, James P Balhoff, Wasila M Dahdul, Nizar Ibrahim, Hilmar Lapp, John G Lundberg, Paula M Mabee, Paul C Sereno, Monte Westerfield, Todd J Vision, David C Blackburn

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.28v1

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March 3, 2020

Evolutionary history of the Cameroon radiation of puddle frogs (Phrynobatrachidae: Phrynobatrachus), with descriptions of two critically endangered new species from the northern Cameroon Volcanic Line

Václav Gvoždík, Tadeáš Nečas, Matej Dolinay, Breda M. Zimkus, Andreas Schmitz, Eric B. Fokam

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8393 PubMed 32175182