Patrick J. Couper (born 1958) is a
herpetologist in
Queensland
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, Australia. Born in New Zealand, he migrated to Australia in 1981.
Couper began his career at the
Queensland Museum in 1984. He was initially employed in display construction, and became a research assistant in herpetology in 1986 under the direction and mentorship of the admired senior curator and head of Vertebrate Zoology,
Jeanette Covacevich
Jeanette Adelaide Covacevich (1945–2015) was a herpetologist in Queensland, Australia. As a senior curator of vertebrates at the Queensland Museum, she discovered and studied many reptiles and frogs in Queensland. Covacevich is most famous f ...
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Since 1993 he has been Curator of Reptiles and Amphibians at the Queensland Museum.
A major research focus has been
leaf-tailed geckos that inhabit rainforest and rock habitats in eastern Queensland and
New South Wales
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A species of lizard, ''
Lampropholis couperi
''Lampropholis couperi'', commonly known as the plain-backed sunskink, is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Queensland, Australia.
Etymology
The specific name, ''couperi'', is in honour of Australia ...
'', is named in honour of Patrick J. Couper.
[ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Couper, P., p. 60).]
References
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1958 births
Living people
People from Queensland
New Zealand emigrants to Australia
Australian herpetologists