Paul Horner

Biographic Data

ID8923337
NAMEPaul Horner
GIVEN NAMESPaul
FAMILY NAMEHorner
SIGNATUREHORNER P
AFFILIATIONSDepartment of Arts and Museums
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1985
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
H-INDEX0

  • A New Species of Proablepharus (Squamata

    Open AccessPaul Horner, Alaric Fisher et al.ARTICLEThe Beagle Records of the Museums…2004

    Proablepharus naranjicaudus sp.nov.(Squamata: Scincidae), is distinguished from all its known congeners in having supraoculars four, first two contacting frontal; frontoparietals and interparietal fused into a single scale; supraciliaries usually six; upper preocular small or absent; postsupralabials usually one, and subdigital lamellae of pes tri-mucronate.Juveniles have striking pale and dark stripes through Ihe centre of each dorsal scale and …

  • Type Specimens of Terrestrial Vertebrates in the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory - 1973 to 1999

    Open AccessPaul HornerARTICLEThe Beagle Records of the Museums…1999

    Details of type specimens deposited in the Terrestrial Vertebrates Collection of the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, are given. Material whose descriptions were published prior to 1 November 1999 is covered and includes 49 holotypes and 507 paratypes. Discrepancies between original descriptions and MAGNT catalogue entries are commented on. Tables give a summary of type material and show bot…

  • A New Species of Ramphotyphlops (Squamata

    Open AccessGlenn M Shea, Paul HornerARTICLEThe Beagle Records of the Museums…1996

    A new species of Ramphotyphlops is described from the Darwin area, northern Australia.It differs from all other Ramphotyphlops in the combination of 16 midbody scale rows with a high number of ventral scales.Additional records of R. minimus (Kinghorn, 1929) are reported, including the first record from mainland Australia.Ramphotyphlops guentheri (Peters, 1865) shows discon¬ tinuous geographically-linked variation in number of ventral scales.The n…

  • Two New Species of Ctenotus (Reptilia, Scincidae) from the Northern Territory

    Open AccessPaul HornerARTICLEThe Beagle Records of the Museums…1995

    Two new species of Ctenotus Storr (Reptilia, Scincidae), C. astictus sp.nov.and C. stuarti sp.nov.are described and their habitat preferences and distribution in the Northern Territory are discussed.Both species are closely allied to C. arnhemensis Storr and are distinguished

  • A note on the status of Gehyra baliola (Dumeril and Dumeril, 1851) in Australia

    Open AccessMax King, Ross A Sadlier et al.ARTICLEThe Beagle Records of the Museums…1989

    An examination of specimens of Gehyra Gray from Papua New Guinea, the Torres Strait Islands, and Cape York Peninsula reveals that Gehyra baliola is predomi¬ nantly a New Guinean species.Specimens collected from the Australian mainland which have in the past been attributed to G, baliola are not from this taxon.The only specimens of G, baliola found in Australian Territory occur on Darnley and Murray Islands in the northern Torres Strait.Gehyra du…

  • Karyotypic evolution in Gehyra (Gekkonidae

    Open AccessMax King, Paul HornerARTICLEThe Beagle Records of the Museums…1989

    A new species of Gehyra Gray from Papua New Guinea is described.Previously confused with G. oceanica and G. vorax, this species is distinguished from these and other congeners by morphological characters and karyotype morphology.The widely distributed G. oceanica is surveyed morphologically and chromosomally, and the island populations of this species which were analysed appear to be conspecific

  • A new species of Ctenotus (Reptilia

    Open AccessMax King, Paul Horner et al.ARTICLEThe Beagle Records of the Museums…1988

    A new species of Ctenotus Storr (Rcptilia:Scincidae), C. septenarius sp.nov., from the arid south of the Northern Territory of Australia is described.This species is a member of the Ctenotus leonhardii species group (sensu Storr et al. 1981), and is distinguished from other members of that complex by both scalation and back pattern

  • An additional freshwater turtle species and the confirmation of Chelodina novaeguineae in the Northern Territory, Australia

    Open AccessMax King, Paul HornerARTICLEThe Beagle Records of the Museums…1987

    An additional species of Elseya Gray (Chelidae: Reptilia), E. latisternurn Gray is recorded from the tropical north of the Northern Teriritory, and the presence of Chelodina novaeguineae Boulenger in the Northern Territory is confirmed

  • A new species of monitor (Reptilia

    Open AccessMax King, Paul HornerARTICLEThe Beagle Records of the Museums…1987

    A new species of Varanus Merrem (Varanidae: Reptilia), V. haritji sp.nov., from the tropical north of the Northern Territory is described.It most closely resembles V. acanthurus Boulcngcr but colour and pattern easily distinguish the species.Recently collected specimens of V. acanthurus insulanicus Mertens from the Wcsscl island chain confirm the status of this subspecies

  • An additional varanid species in the Northern Territory

    Open AccessPeter R Rankin, Max King et al.ARTICLEThe Beagle Records of the Museums…1987

    An additional species of varanid lizard, Varanus glauerti Mertens, has been recorded in the tropical north of the Northern Territory

  • A new species of Ctenotus (Scincidae, Reptilia) from the Northern Territory

    Open AccessPaul Horner, Max KingARTICLEThe Beagle Records of the Museums…1985

    A new species of Ctenotus Storr (Scincidae, Reptilia) from the tropical north of the Northern Territory is described and compared to its closest relative Ctenotus robustus Storr