Draft:Roger Stephen Thorpe

Roger Stephen Thorpe (born 1947) is an English zoologist, evolutionary biologist and herpetologist.

Thorpe is currently an emeritus professor at the School of Environmental and Natural Sciences, Bangor University (UK). He obtained a BSc (1968) and PGTC (1969) from the University of London, a PhD in 1974 while based in the Natural History Museum, London, and a DSc (1986) from the University of Aberdeen.

His research has been on aspects of evolution such as natural selection, speciation, molecular phylogeny, population genetics, biogeography, and geographic variation. This has been on a range of taxa, but largely venomous snakes and island lizards. He is particularly interested in studying within-island variation in lizards to elucidate the process of natural selection and speciation. He has authored over three hundred items, mostly in research journals ranging from Molecular Ecology to Nature and has participated in naming several reptile taxa such as:- Cryptelytrops cardamomensis Malhotra, Thorpe, Mrinalini & Stuart 2011. Garthius Malhotra & Thorpe 2004. Trimeresurus (Popeia) Malhotra & Thorpe 2004. Trimeresurus cardamomensis Malhotra, Thorpe, Mrinalini & Stuart 2011. Trimeresurus rubeus Malhotra, Thorpe, Mrinalini & Stuart 2011.