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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.

Alice Middleton Boring

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

Anderson's salamander

Ambystoma andersoni is named after James Anderson, a herpetologist with the American Museum of Natural History who did extensive fieldwork studying Ambystoma and other herp species in Mexico.

Calabresi

Enrica Calabresi (1891–1944), Italian zoologist, herpetologist, and entomologist

Chelypus

hirsti Hewitt 1915 (=Chelypus kalaharicus Lawrence, 1949)(=Chelypus wuehlischi Roewer 1941) - Northern Cape, Gobabis, Namibia and Botswana

Crocodylus novaeguineae

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

Donald W. Tinkle

Tinkle was a student of the renowned herpetologist Fred Cagle, receiving a PhD at Tulane University after conducting studies of freshwater turtles in the southeastern United States with future herpetologist and author J. Whitfield Gibbons as his undergraduate assistant.

Doria

Giacomo Doria (1840-1913), an Italian naturalist, herpetologist, and politician

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.

Forest night frog

Its rediscovery in 2011 coincided with the discovery of Nyctibatrachus poocha and others of the genus Nyctibatrachus by herpetologist Sathyabhama Das Biju.

Fred Albert Shannon

They had five children; Lucile, Mary, Edna, Marjory and Frederick A. Shannon, M.D., herpetologist.

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.

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.

Harald Meier

Harald Meier was a German herpetologist who discovered the Phelsuma pusilla hallmanni and Phelsuma borbonica mater, subspecies of geckos.

Joseph Bruno Slowinski

He attained his bachelor's degree in biology from the University of Kansas in 1984 and went on to receive his Ph.D. at the University of Miami in 1991, studying under herpetologist Jay M. Savage.

Klauber

Laurence M(onroe). Klauber (1883, San Diego, California - 1968), an American herpetologist

Laurenti

Raymond Laurent (1917–2005), herpetologist, origin of reptile binomial name laurenti

Loveridge's Sunbird

The common name and Latin binomial commemorate the American herpetologist Arthur Loveridge .

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.

Malcolm Smith

Malcolm Arthur Smith (1875–1958), zoologist, herpetologist, and physician

Ornate chorus frog

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

Philippine cobra

Naja philippinensis was described by American herpetologist Edward Harrison Taylor in 1922.

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.

Puerto Rico Upland Gecko

The epithet or specific name, klauberi, is in honor of herpetologist Laurence Monroe Klauber.

Sceloporus occidentalis bocourtii

The subspecific name, bocourtii, is in honor of French herpetologist Marie Firmin Bocourt.

Taipan

In 1950, Kevin Budden, an amateur herpetologist, was one of the first people to capture a taipan alive, although he was bitten in the process and died the next day.

Tukeit Hill frog

When herpetologist G. K. Noble examined Allophryne, he suggested it was closely related to glassfrogs, a hypothesis later confirmed by recent phylogenetic studies, which have found Allophryne is the sister taxon of the glassfrog clade Centroleninae.


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