David B Wake

PeerJ Author & Reviewer

Summary

Professor of the Graduate School, Dept Integrative Biology, and Curator, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California at Berkeley

Anatomy & Physiology Biogeography Conservation Biology Evolutionary Studies Taxonomy Zoology

Past or current institution affiliations

UC Berkeley

Work details

Professor of the Graduate School; Curator of Herpetology

University of California, Berkeley

July 1969

Integrative Biology and Museum of Vertebrate Zoology

Active research in biology of salamanders, including biogeography, phylogenetics, sysstematics and taxonomy. Responsible for large (ca 275,000 specimens) collection of amphibians and reptiles.

Websites

David B Wake

October 2, 2020

Two extremely rare new species of fossorial salamanders of the genus Oedipina (Plethodontidae) from northwestern Ecuador

Carolina Reyes-Puig, David B. Wake, Ramachandran Kotharambath, Jeffrey W. Streicher, Claudia Koch, Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia, Mario H. Yánez-Muñoz, Santiago Ron

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9934 PubMed 33062424

August 14, 2020

Slender salamanders (genus Batrachoseps) reveal Southern California to be a center for the diversification, persistence, and introduction of salamander lineages

Elizabeth L. Jockusch, Robert W. Hansen, Robert N. Fisher, David B. Wake

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9599 PubMed 32864205

May 26, 2020

Descriptions of five new species of the salamander genus Chiropterotriton (Caudata: Plethodontidae) from eastern Mexico and the status of three currently recognized taxa

Gabriela Parra Olea, Mirna G. Garcia-Castillo, Sean M. Rovito, Jessica A. Maisano, James Hanken, David B. Wake

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8800 PubMed 32518712

August 1, 2019

Taxonomic revision of black salamanders of the Aneides flavipunctatus complex (Caudata: Plethodontidae)

Sean B. Reilly, David B. Wake