Staff profile

Dr Tom Burton

Emeritus Scholar

Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering

School of Pharmacy and Applied Science
Department of Pharmacy

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Membership of professional Associations

Australian Institute of Biology, Australian Society of Herpetologists, Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles

Area of study

Physiology
Pharmacy

Brief Profile

Since 1978, I have worked on the anatomy and systematics of frogs, particularly the microhylids of New Guinea, and on the evolution of muscle groups in frogs, particularly the muscles of the hand and foot.

In the course of my research, I have participated in the description and naming of a number of new species of frogs, and a new genus of New Guinean frogs. I have also described and named a number of thitherto undescribed muscles in frogs. In 2002, a newly discovered ligament in hands of South American frogs of the genus Scinax was named “Burton’s ligament” in recognition of my anatomical work.

Recent Publications

Burton. T.C. (2004) Muscles of the pes of hylid frogs. Journal of Morphology 260: 209-233.

Richards, S.J. and Burton, T.C. (2003) A new species of Choerophryne (Anura:Microhylidae) from Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 127: 47-51.

Burton, T.C. (2001) Variation in the foot muscles of frogs of the family Myobatrachidae. Australian Journal of Zoology 49(5): 539-559.

Davies, M. & Burton, T.C. (2000) Redefinition of the Australian frog Limnodynastes depressus Tyler (Myobatrachidae: Limnodynastinae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 124:141-150.