Richard W. Wells

Richard W. Wells
Born
Richard Walter Wells
NationalityAustralian
OccupationHerpetologist
Years active1980s–2000s
Known forAustralian 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.