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4 unusual facts about Herpetology


Alice Middleton Boring

Alice Middleton Boring (February 22, 1883 in Philadelphia – September 18, 1955 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American biologist, zoologist, and herpetologist.

Crocodylus novaeguineae

The New Guinea crocodile was first described by the American herpetologist Karl Patterson Schmidt in 1928 as Crocodylus novaeguineae.

Gaston-François de Witte

Gaston-François de Witte (1897-1980) was a Belgian herpetologist who discovered and described at least 24 different species of reptiles.

Herpetology

Modern herpetological showmen of note include Steve Irwin, popularly known as the "Crocodile Hunter", and the star Austin Stevens, popularly known as 'AustinSnakeman', famous for TV series Austin Stevens: Snakemaster.


Abraham Klauber

Abraham's youngest son Laurence Monroe Klauber (1883 in San Diego, California – 1968), was an American herpetologist, and was considered to be the foremost authority on rattlesnakes.

André Marie Constant Duméril

Under the Restauration, he was elected a member of the Académie des Sciences (French Academy of Sciences) and succeeded, after 1803, Lacépède, who was occupied by his political offices, as professor of herpetology and ichthyology at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle.

Fermín Zanón Cervera

American herpetologist Thomas Barbour had been accompanied by Cervera on his visits to Cuba, and on hearing of the strange birds to be found in the Zapata Swamp, he sent the Spaniard on a series of trips into the region.

Gray checkered whiptail

The epithet dixoni is in homage of renowned herpetologist James R. Dixon, which leads some sources to refer to it as Dixon's Whiptail.

Gustav Tornier

Gustav Tornier (Dombrowken (today Dąbrowa Chełmińska, Poland), 9 May 1858 - Berlin, 25 April 1938) was a German zoologist and herpetologist.

James A. Peters

During his thirty years of research in herpetology he described seventeen new species or subspecies, most of them amphibians, such as a few Neotropical toads of the genus Atelopus.

Lygosoma veunsaiensis

In 2010, at the remote rainforest area of Veun Sai-Siem Pang Conservation Area in Ratanakiri Province, Cambodia a Fauna and Flora International herpetologist, Thy Neang, first discovered Lygosoma veunsaiensis.

Ornate chorus frog

The ornate chorus frog (Pseudacris ornata) was named and classified by American herpetologist John Edwards Holbrook in 1836.

Pampagrande

An expert in local ornithology (including the endemic Red-fronted Macaw, and herpetology and reptiles, he often makes time to show visitors around as part of his travels about his parish.

Plains coqui

It was discovered in 2005 by Neftalí Rios, and was named after Puerto Rican herpetologist Juan A. Rivero, in honor of his contributions to Puerto Rican herpetology.

Rhacodactylus sarasinorum

R. sarasinorum is currently being evaluated by CITES for protective status and is considered vulnerable to extinction in many herpetological circles.

Richard Sternfeld

Sternfeld served as director of the department of herpetology at the Naturmuseum Senckenberg in Frankfurt am Main.

Trimeresurus karanshahi

The specific name, karanshahi, is in honor of Mr. Karan Bahadur Shah, Professor of Herpetology and Mammalogy at Tribhuvan University in Nepal.

Turtle Conservancy

The Behler Chelonian Center is a seven acre, AZA-Certified zoological facility founded in 2004, upon the request of John L. Behler (1943-2006), the international turtle conservationist and then Curator of Herpetology at the Bronx Zoo, to provide a home for Wildlife Conservation Society’s (WCS) established chelonian assurance colony.


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