Research Associate
Research Interests
Phylogeny and systematics of fossil and living turtles especially pleurodires and members of the Trionychoidea. Ecology and conservation of sea turtles and Florida turtles. Paleontology of turtles and snakes. Herpetology of Florida
Current Research Projects
Ecology and migrations of sea turtles of Bocas del Toro Province, Panama; Ecology and restoration of hawksbill turtles on Chiriqui Beach and Escudo de Veraguas, Comarca Ngobe-Bugle, Panama.
Phylogeny and systematics of the Bothremydidae.
Turtles of Rainbow Run, Marion Co., FL. and others.
Current or Projected Exhibits
Recent Publications
54) GEIS, A., T. WIBBELS, B. PHILLIPS, Z. HILLIS-STAR, A. MEYLAN, P. MEYLAN, C. DIEZ AND R. VAN DAM. 2003. Predicted sex ratio of juvenile hawksbill seaturtles inhabiting Buck Island Reef National Monument, U.S. Virgin Islands. Journal of Herpetology 37:400-404.
57) HUESTIS, D.L. AND P.A. MEYLAN. 2004. The turtles of Rainbow Run (Marion Co., Florida): Observations on the genus Pseudemys. Southeastern Naturalist 3:595-612.
58) NEAR, T. J. P. A. MEYLAN, and H. B. SHAFFER. 2005. Assessing concordance of fossil calibration points in molecular clock studies: an example using turtles. American Naturalist 165:137-146.
60) MEYLAN, P.A. 2005. Late Pliocene anurans from Inglis IA, Citrus County, Florida. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum of Natural History 45:171-178.
61) MEYLAN P.A. (Ed.) 2006. Biology and Conservation of Florida Turtles. Chelonian Research Monographs 3: 1-376.
75) GAFFNEY, E.S., TONG, H. AND MEYLAN, P.A. 2006. Evolution of the side-necked turtles: the families Bothremydidae, Euraxemydidae, and Araripemydidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 300:1-698.
76) MORTIMER, J.A., MEYLAN, P.A. AND DONNELLY, M. 2007. Whose Turtles Are They Anyway? (News and Views) Molecular Ecology 16:17-18.
77) ORDOÑEZ, C., TROËNG, S., MEYLAN A., MEYLAN P., AND RUIZ, A. 2007. Chiriqui Beach, Panama, the most important leatherback nesting beach in Central America. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 6:122-126.
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