Tom Devitt
- Assistant Professor of Practice
- Research Scientist
- Freshman Research Initiative
- Texas Field Station Network
- Biodiversity Center
Research Educator | Biodiversity Discovery
Contact Information
Research
Research Areas
- Evolution
- Biodiversity, Ecology or Sustainability
- Neuroscience
- Molecular Biology or Genetics
Fields of Interest
- Evolutionary Biology
- Behavior and Neuroscience
- Ecology and Global Change Biology
- Comparative Biology and Phylogenetics
Centers and Institutes
- Biodiversity Center
- Texas Field Station Network
Publications
Tovar, R.U., B.A. Dobbins, N.R. Hartman, S. Leelani, T.J. Devitt, D.M. García, P.M. Gignac, D.C. Cannatella, & D.M. Hillis, 2025. Parallel sensory compensation following independent subterranean colonization by groundwater salamanders (Eurycea), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 122 (23) e2504850122, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2504850122.
Devitt, T.J., K. Tseng, M. Taylor-Adair, S. Koganti, A. Timugura, and D. C. Cannatella. 2023. Two new species of Eleutherodactylus from western and central Mexico (Eleutherodactylus jamesdixoni sp. nov., Eleutherodactylus humboldti sp. nov.). PeerJ 11:e14985. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.14985.
Hillis, D.M., E.A. Chambers, and T.J. Devitt. 2021. Contemporary methods and evidence for species delimitation. Ichthyology & Herpetology 109(3), 895–903. https://doi.org/10.1643/h2021082.
Devitt, T. J., A. M. Wright, D. C. Cannatella, and D. M. Hillis. 2019. Species delimitation in endangered groundwater salamanders: Implications for aquifer management and biodiversity conservation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 116(7) 2624–2633. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1815014116.