Richard W. Wells | |
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| Born | Richard Walter Wells |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Occupation | Herpetologist |
| Years active | 1980s–2000s |
| Known for | Australian Journal of Herpetology, Australian Biodiversity Record |
Richard Walter Wells is an Australian herpetologist. He is known for editing the Australian Journal of Herpetology in the 1980s, in which he and C. Ross Wellington wrote and published three papers without academic peer review that proposed significant changes to the taxonomy and nomenclature of Australian reptiles and amphibians. In the 2000s, Wells self-published herpetological research in the Australian Biodiversity Record. The scientific names he proposed therein are the subject of a boycott begun in 2013 by some members of the herpetological community.