List of herpetologists
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This is a list of herpetologists
who have articles, in alphabetical order by surname.
Herpetology
Herpetology is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians and reptiles...
who have articles, in alphabetical order by surname.
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- Ernst AhlErnst AhlChristoph Gustav Ernst Ahl was a German zoologist.He was the director of the department of ichthyology and herpetology in the Museum für Naturkunde....
- Ross AllenRoss Allen (herpetologist)Ensil Ross Allen was an American herpetologist and writer. Born in Pennsylvania, Ross relocated to Florida with his family when he was a teenager. As a young man, Allen made a hobby of capturing turtles, snakes and other reptiles near his home in central Florida.Allen began the Reptile Institute...
- Spencer Fullerton BairdSpencer Fullerton BairdSpencer Fullerton Baird was an American ornithologist, ichthyologist and herpetologist. Starting in 1850 he was assistant-secretary and later secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C...
- Thomas BarbourThomas BarbourThomas Barbour was an American herpetologist. From 1927 until 1946, he was director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology founded in 1859 by Louis Agassiz at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts....
- Brady BarrBrady BarrBrady Barr is a herpetologist and currently the host of Nat Geo WILD's Dangerous Encounters with Brady Barr. He has been employed with National Geographic since 1997 ,HE learned field work and about snakes by the first herpitologist Samyak and Sourabh...
- Richard Henry BeddomeRichard Henry BeddomeColonel Richard Henry Beddome was a British military officer in India, chief conservator of the Madras Forest Department and a naturalist...
- Thomas BellThomas Bell (zoologist)Thomas Bell FRS was an English zoologist, surgeon and writer, born in Poole, Dorset, UK.Bell, like his mother Susan, took a keen interest in natural history which his mother also encouraged in his younger cousin Philip Henry Gosse. Bell left Poole in 1813 for his training as a dental surgeon in...
- Arnold Adolph BertholdArnold Adolph BertholdArnold Adolph Berthold or Arnold Adolf Berthold was a German physiologist and zoologist. He studied medicine in Göttingen in 1819 and wrote his thesis under the direction of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach . Berthold became a private lecturer in 1825 and began to teach physiology at the University of...
- Giovanni Giuseppe Bianconi
- Gabriel BibronGabriel BibronGabriel Bibron was a French zoologist. He was born in Paris. Son of an employee of the Museum national d'histoire naturelle, he had a good foundation in natural history and was hired to collect vertebrates in Italy and Sicily. He classified a number of reptile species with André Marie Constant...
- Sathyabhama Das BijuSathyabhama Das BijuSathyabhama Das Biju is an Indian amphibian biologist, who teaches at the University of Delhi. With more than a hundred discoveries stemming from his personal work or that in his lab, his is one of the most productive amphibian research laboratories in the world.-Life:Born in Kerala, Biju started...
- Sherman C. BishopSherman C. BishopSherman Chauncey Bishop was a herpetologist and arachnologist from New York. He studied at Cornell University and, with Cyrus R. Crosby, gave the Spruce-fir moss spider its scientific name. His Handbook of Salamanders was the first serious and comprehensive treatment of North American salamanders...
- Henri Marie Ducrotay de BlainvilleHenri Marie Ducrotay de BlainvilleHenri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville was a French zoologist and anatomist.Blainville was born at Arques, near Dieppe. In about 1796 he went to Paris to study painting, but he ultimately devoted himself to natural history, and attracted the attention of Georges Cuvier, for whom he occasionally...
- Frank N. BlanchardFrank N. BlanchardFrank Nelson Blanchard was an American herpetologist, and professor of zoology at the University of Michigan. He is credited with identifying several new species, including the Broad-banded Water Snake, Nerodia fasciata confluens, and the Florida King Snake, Lampropeltis getula floridana...
- José Vicente Barbosa du BocageJosé Vicente Barbosa du BocageJosé Vicente Barbosa du Bocage was a Portuguese zoologist and politician. He was the curator of Zoology at the Museum of Natural History in Lisbon. He published numerous works on mammals, birds, and fishes. In the 1880s he became the Minister of the Navy and later the Minister for Foreign Affairs...
- Marie Firmin BocourtMarie Firmin BocourtMarie Firmin Bocourt was a French zoologist and artist.In zoology, Bocourt collaborated with Auguste Duméril. In 1861, he was sent to Thailand , where he explored the fauna and brought back an important collection of specimens...
- Oskar BoettgerOskar BoettgerOskar Boettger was a German zoologist who was a native of Frankfurt am Main. He was an uncle of the noted malacologist Caesar Rudolf Boettger ....
- Charles M. Bogert
- Friedrich BoieFriedrich BoieFriedrich Boie was a German scientist and brother of Heinrich Boie. He was born at Meldorf in Holstein and died at Kiel....
(1784-1827) - Heinrich BoieHeinrich BoieHeinrich Boie was a German zoologist. He was the brother of Friedrich Boie. In the field of herpetology they described 49 new species of reptiles and several new species of amphibians....
(1789-1870) - Pierre Joseph BonnaterrePierre Joseph BonnaterreAbbé Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre was a French naturalist who contributed sections on cetaceans, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and insects to the Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique...
- Paul-Émile BottaPaul-Émile BottaPaul-Émile Botta was a French scientist who served as Consul in Mosul from 1842.-Life:...
- George Albert BoulengerGeorge Albert BoulengerGeorge Albert Boulenger FRS was a Belgian-British zoologist who identified over 2000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles and amphibians.-Life:...
- Donald George Broadley
- Leo BrongersmaLeo BrongersmaLeo Daniel Brongersma was a Dutch zoologist, author, and lecturer.Brongersma was born in Bloemendaal, North Holland and earned his PhD at the University of Amsterdam in 1934...
- Hermann BurmeisterHermann BurmeisterKarl Hermann Konrad Burmeister was a German zoologist, entomologist, and herpetologist.Burmeister was born in Stralsund and became a professor of Zoology at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1837 to 1861...
- Enrica CalabresiEnrica CalabresiEnrica Calabresi was an Italian zoologist, herpetologist, and entomologist. Her family was part of the Jewish community which has played an important role in Ferrara, continuously since the Middle Ages....
- Lorenzo CameranoLorenzo CameranoLorenzo Camerano was an Italian herpetologist and entomologist.Born in Biella in 1856 he studied in Bologna and Torino, where he settled in order to take, between 1871 and 1873, a painting course held by Fontanesi at the local Art Academy.Camerano worked as a painter for the Turin Zoology Museum,...
- Theodore Edward CantorTheodore Edward CantorTheodore Edward Cantor was a Danish physician, zoologist and botanist.Cantor worked for the British East India Company. He made natural history collections in Penang and Malacca...
- Archie CarrArchie CarrArchie Fairly Carr, Jr. was an American herpetologist, ecologist and a pioneering conservationist. He was a Professor of Zoology at the University of Florida. In 1987 he was awarded the Eminent Ecologist Award by the Ecological Society of America...
- Alexandre Constantinovich ChnéourAlexandre Constantinovich ChnéourAlexandre Constantinovich Chnéour was a Russian entomologist and herpetologist...
- Doris Mable CochranDoris Mable CochranDoris Mable Cochran was an American herpetologist and custodian of the American Natural Collection at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. for many years...
- Roger ConantRoger Conant (herpetologist)Roger Conant was an American herpetologist, author, educator and conservationist. He was Director Emeritus of the Philadelphia Zoo and Adjunct Professor at the University of New Mexico...
- Edward Drinker CopeEdward Drinker CopeEdward Drinker Cope was an American paleontologist and comparative anatomist, as well as a noted herpetologist and ichthyologist. Born to a wealthy Quaker family, Cope distinguished himself as a child prodigy interested in science; he published his first scientific paper at the age of nineteen...
- Jeff CorwinJeff CorwinJeffrey Scott Corwin is an American animal and nature conservationist, best known as host and executive producer of Animal Planet cable channel television programs, The Jeff Corwin Experience and Corwin's Quest.-Early years:...
- Osvaldo Rodrigues da CunhaOsvaldo Rodrigues da CunhaOsvaldo Rodrigues da Cunha was a Brazilian paleontologist and herpetologist.Da Cunha was born in Belém, and studied zoology at the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia of Manaus.-Authored Taxa:...
- François Marie DaudinFrançois Marie DaudinFrançois Marie Daudin was a French zoologist.With legs paralyzed by childhood disease, he studied of physics and natural history, but ended up being devoted to the latter.Daudin wrote in 1799–1800...
- Gaston-François de Witte
- Raymond DitmarsRaymond DitmarsRaymond Lee Ditmars was an American herpetologist.Ditmars was very interested in animals, , obtaining his first snakes at twelve years of age...
- James R. DixonJames R. DixonDr. James Ray Dixon is Professor Emeritus and Curator Emeritus of Amphibians and Reptiles at the Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collection at Texas A&M University. His main research focus has been the natural history of Texas amphibians and reptiles and he has authored numerous field guides and...
- Alfredo DugèsAlfredo DugèsAlfredo Dugès ; was a French-born, Mexican physician and naturalist who was born in Montpellier. He was the son of zoologist Antoine Louis Dugès...
- André Marie Constant DumérilAndré Marie Constant DumérilAndré Marie Constant Duméril was a French zoologist. He was professor of anatomy at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle from 1801 to 1812, when he became professor of herpetology and ichthyology...
- Auguste DumérilAuguste DumérilAuguste Henri André Duméril was a French zoologist. He was professor of Herpetology and Ichthyology at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris from 1857. His father André Marie Constant Duméril was also a zoologist...
- Emmett Reid DunnEmmett Reid DunnEmmett Reid Dunn was an American herpetologist noted for his work in Panama and for studies of salamanders in the Eastern United States. He attended Haverford College as an undergraduate and received his PhD from Harvard University. After receiving his PhD taught at Smith College...
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- Joseph Fortuné Théodore EydouxJoseph Fortuné Théodore EydouxJoseph Fortuné Théodore Eydoux Joseph Fortuné Théodore Eydoux Joseph Fortuné Théodore Eydoux (1802 - 1841 was a French naturalist.Eydoux and Louis François Auguste Souleyet were surgeon naturalists on the expedition ship "La Favorite" which made a circumnavigation in 1830-32 captained by Cyrille...
- Henry Sheldon FitchHenry Sheldon FitchHenry Sheldon Fitch was an American herpetologist.Fitch was born in Utica, New York. When he was a year old, the family moved to Medford in the Rogue Valley in Oregon. Growing up, he had a keen interest in all the reptiles he could find on his father's 116 acre ranch...
- Leopold FitzingerLeopold FitzingerLeopold Joseph Franz Johann Fitzinger was an Austrian zoologist.Fitzinger was born in Vienna and studied botany at the university of Vienna under Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin...
- Vivian Frederick Maynard FitzSimons
- Henry Weed FowlerHenry Weed FowlerHenry Weed Fowler was an American zoologist born in Holmesburg, Pennsylvania.He studied at Stanford University under David Starr Jordan...
- Frederick McMahon GaigeFrederick McMahon GaigeFrederick McMahon Gaige was an American entomologist and herpetologist.- Source :...
- Helen Beulah Thompson GaigeHelen Beulah Thompson GaigeHelen Beulah Thompson Gaige was an American herpetologist, curator of Reptiles and Amphibians for the Museum of Zoology at the University of Michigan and specialist in neotropical frogs....
- Samuel Garman
- Paul GervaisPaul GervaisFor the Canadian parliamentarian see Paul Mullins GervaisPaul Gervais full name François Louis Paul Gervaise was a French palaeontologist and entomologist.-Biography:...
- J. Whitfield GibbonsJ. Whitfield GibbonsJ. Whitfield "Whit" Gibbons is an American herpetologist, author, and educator. He is Professor Emeritus of Ecology, University of Georgia, and Head of the Environmental Outreach and Education program at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory .-Life and work:Gibbons was born in Montgomery, Alabama....
- Charles Frédéric GirardCharles Frédéric GirardCharles Frédéric Girard was a French biologist specializing in ichthyology and herpetology.Born in Mulhouse, France, he studied at the College of Neuchâtel, Switzerland as a student of Louis Agassiz. In 1847, he accompanied Agassiz as his assistant to Harvard...
- Howard K. GloydHoward K. GloydHoward Kay Gloyd was an American herpetologist who is credited with describing several new species of reptile, such as the Florida Cottonmouth, Agkistrodon piscivorus conanti...
- Johann Friedrich GmelinJohann Friedrich GmelinJohann Friedrich Gmelin was a German naturalist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist and malacologist.- Education :Johann Friedrich Gmelin was born as the eldest son of Philipp Friedrich Gmelin in 1748 in Tübingen...
- Philip Henry GossePhilip Henry GossePhilip Henry Gosse was an English naturalist and popularizer of natural science, virtually the inventor of the seawater aquarium, and a painstaking innovator in the study of marine biology...
- Chapman GrantChapman GrantChapman Grant was an American herpetologist, historian, and publisher. He was the last living grandson of United States President Ulysses S. Grant...
- Johann Ludwig Christian GravenhorstJohann Ludwig Christian GravenhorstJohann Ludwig Christian Carl Gravenhorst , sometimes Jean Louis Charles or Carl, was a German entomologist, herpetologist and zoologist.- Life:...
- John Edward GrayJohn Edward GrayJohn Edward Gray, FRS was a British zoologist. He was the elder brother of George Robert Gray and son of the pharmacologist and botanist Samuel Frederick Gray ....
- Jean Marius René GuibéJean Marius René GuibéJean Marius René Guibé was a French naturalist especially herpetologist. He was born on 18 February 1910 in Paris and died on 4 May 1999 in Caen...
- Albert Günther
- Bill HaastBill HaastWilliam E. "Bill" Haast was the director of the Miami Serpentarium Laboratories, a facility near Punta Gorda, Florida, which produces snake venom for medical and research use. Haast extracted venom from venomous snakes from the time he was a boy...
- Edward Hallowell
- Richard HarlanRichard HarlanRichard Harlan was an American naturalist, zoologist, physicist and paleontologist....
- Norman Edouard HartwegNorman Edouard HartwegDr. Norman Edouard "Kibe" Hartweg was an American herpetologist, Curator of Herpetology for the Museum of Zoology at the University of Michigan, and president of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists...
- Oliver Perry HayOliver Perry HayOliver Perry Hay was an American professor, herpetologist, ichthyologist, and paleontologist. From 1894-1895 he worked at the Field Museum of Natural History as Assistant Curator of Zoology where, despite his specialty in ichthyology, he worked in all non-ornithological fields of zoology...
- William Perry HayWilliam Perry HayWilliam Perry Hay was an American zoologist known for work on crayfish and reptiles. He was the son of Oliver Perry Hay.- References :...
- John HewittJohn Hewitt (herpetologist)John Hewitt was a South African zoologist and archaeologist of British origin. He was born in Dronfield nearby Sheffield, England, and died in Grahamstown, South Africa. He was the author of several herpetological papers which described new species.He graduated with a first-class in natural...
- John Edwards HolbrookJohn Edwards HolbrookJohn Edwards Holbrook American zoologist, herpetologist, physician, and naturalist, was born in Beaufort, South Carolina, the son of Silas Holbrook, a teacher, and Mary Edwards....
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- Bob IrwinBob IrwinRobert "Bob" Irwin is an Australian naturalist, animal conservationist, and a pioneering herpetologist who is also famous for his conservation and husbandry work with apex predators and reptiles...
- Steve IrwinSteve IrwinStephen Robert "Steve" Irwin , nicknamed "The Crocodile Hunter", was an Australian television personality, wildlife expert, and conservationist. Irwin achieved worldwide fame from the television series The Crocodile Hunter, an internationally broadcast wildlife documentary series which he co-hosted...
- John Iverson
- Giorgio JanGiorgio JanGiorgio Jan was an Italian taxonomist, zoologist, botanist, herpetologist, and writer. He is also known as Georg Jan or Georges Jan....
- Wilhelm Moritz KefersteinWilhelm Moritz KefersteinWilhelm Moritz Keferstein was a German naturalist.He wrote Zoologische Beiträge gesammelt im Winter 1859/60 in Neapel und Messina... in 1861 at Leipzig....
- Robert KennicottRobert KennicottRobert Kennicott was an American naturalist.-Biography:Kennicott was born in New Orleans and grew up in "West Northfield" , Illinois, a town in the prairie north of the then nascent city of Chicago....
- Laurence Monroe KlauberLaurence Monroe KlauberLaurence M. Klauber , was an American herpetologist, and was considered to be the foremost authority on rattlesnakes...
- Gerard KrefftGerard KrefftJohann Ludwig Gerard Krefft , one of Australia's first and greatest zoologists and palaeontologists. In addition to many scientific papers, his books include The Snakes of Australia, A Catalogue of the Minerals and Rocks in the Australian Museum and A Short Guide to the Australian Fossil Remains...
- Bernard Germain de Lacépède
- Pierre André LatreillePierre André LatreillePierre André Latreille was a French zoologist, specialising in arthropods. Having trained as a Roman Catholic priest before the French Revolution, Latreille was imprisoned, and only regained his freedom after recognising a rare species he found in the prison, Necrobia ruficollis...
- Raymond Ferdinand Laurent
- Josephus Nicolaus LaurentiJosephus Nicolaus LaurentiJosephus Nicolaus Laurenti was an Austrian naturalist of Italian origin.Laurenti is considered the auctor of the class Reptilia through his authorship of on the poisonous function of reptiles and amphibians...
- John Eatton LeConte
- René Primevère Lesson
- Charles Alexandre LesueurCharles Alexandre LesueurCharles Alexandre Lesueur was a French naturalist, artist and explorer.Pictured here is the oil portrait by Charles Willson Peale of Charles-Alexandre Lesueur...
- Martin LichtensteinMartin LichtensteinMartin Hinrich Carl Lichtenstein was a German physician, explorer, zoologist, and herpetologist.-Biography:...
- Arthur LoveridgeArthur LoveridgeArthur Loveridge was a British biologist and herpetologist who wrote about animals in East Africa, particularly Tanzania, and New Guinea. He gave the scientific name to several gecko species in the region....
- Charles Herbert LoweCharles Herbert LoweCharles Herbert Lowe, Jr was a U.S. biologist and herpetologist.Lowe was born in Los Angeles, California. After college he served during World War II as a U.S. Navy Ensign in the Pacific. In 1946, he enrolled at UCLA, where he received a Ph.D. in 1950...
- Christian Frederik LütkenChristian Frederik LütkenChristian Frederik Lütken was a Danish naturalist, born 4 October 1827 in Sorø, died 1901.After a career in the Danish army until 1852, he decided to dedicate his life to natural history and left the army at the grade of first lieutenant. From 1856-1862, he was Private docent at the University of...
- Berta LutzBerta LutzBerta Maria Júlia Lutz was a zoologist, and scientist who became a leading figure of the feminist movement in Brazil....
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- Sean McKeownSean McKeownSean McKeown , was a herpetologist in California, USA.-Education:Sean McKeown was born in Southern California. He held degrees in zoology and anthropology from California State University.-Career:...
- Harald MeierHarald MeierHarald Meier was a German herpetologist who discovered the Phelsuma pusilla hallmanni, a subspecies of geckos....
- Édouard MénétriesÉdouard MénétriesÉdouard Ménétries was a French entomologist, zoologist, and herpetologist.Ménétries was born in Paris, and became a student of Georges Cuvier and Pierre André Latreille. On their recommendation he was chosen as the zoologist on a Russian expedition to Brazil in 1822, led by Baron von Langsdorff...
- Robert MertensRobert MertensRobert Mertens was a German herpetologist. The Robert Mertens' day gecko is a species named after him, and he also postulated Mertensian mimicry....
- Sherman A. MintonSherman A. MintonSherman Anthony Minton Jr. was a herpetologist and toxicologist, who conducted the earliest detailed modern studies of amphibians and reptiles in Pakistan. Born in New Albany, Indiana, he was the son of United States Senator and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court Sherman Minton...
- Silas Weir MitchellSilas Weir MitchellSilas Weir Mitchell was an American physician and writer.He was son of a physician, John Kearsley Mitchell , and was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....
- François Mocquard
- Fritz MüllerFritz Müller (doctor)Fritz Müller was a Swiss doctor, zoologist, and herpetologist.He was born in Basel and studied at the University of Basel from 1852 to 1854, and then at Würzburg and Prague, where he became a medical doctor in 1857...
- Lorenz MüllerLorenz MüllerLorenz Müller was a German herpetologist.Professor Lorenz Müller was known for his studies on the Balearic Islands species of the Genus Podarcis during the 1920s where he described several subspecies for the first time, including the now extinct Ratas Island Lizard...
- Wilfred T. NeillWilfred T. NeillWilfred T. Neill was a herpetologist and author. His name survives in the scientific name of the Central Florida Crowned Snake, tantilla relicta neilli.-Biography:...
- M. Graham NettingM. Graham NettingMaurice Graham Netting — known as M. Graham Netting — was a herpetologist, an early participant in the conservation and environmental movement, and a director of the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh.-Biography:...
- Gladwyn Kingsley NobleGladwyn Kingsley NobleGladwyn Kingsley Noble was an American zoologist.- Works :*"American Egret at Martha's Vineyard, Mass" The Auk Vol. 31 N. 1: 100...
- Nicolaus Michael OppelNicolaus Michael OppelNicolaus Michael Oppel was a German naturalist. He was a student of, and worked as an assistant to, André Marie Constant Duméril at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris, France, cataloging and classifying species of reptiles...
- Peter Simon PallasPeter Simon PallasPeter Simon Pallas was a German zoologist and botanist who worked in Russia.- Life and work :Pallas was born in Berlin, the son of Professor of Surgery Simon Pallas. He studied with private tutors and took an interest in natural history, later attending the University of Halle and the University...
- Hampton Wildman ParkerHampton Wildman ParkerHampton Wildman Parker was an English zoologist.Parker was Keeper of Zoology at the Natural History Museum from 1947 to 1957. He is the author of a works on snakes and frogs: Parker discovered the Vesey-Fitzgerald's Burrowing Skink on the Seychelles which he named after entomologist Leslie Desmond...
- Mario Giacinto Peracca
- Wilhelm PetersWilhelm PetersWilhelm Karl Hartwich Peters was a German naturalist and explorer.He was assistant to Johannes Peter Müller and later curator of the Berlin Zoological Museum. In September 1842 he travelled to Mozambique via Angola. He returned to Berlin with an enormous collection of natural history specimens...
- Eric PiankaEric PiankaEric Rodger Pianka is an American biologist, whose work includes herpetology and evolutionary ecology. His textbook, Evolutionary Ecology is considered a classic, and his writings for the general public and television appearances have made him an influential figure.-Youth:Pianka was born in...
- Clifford H. PopeClifford H. PopeCliford Hillhouse Pope was a noted American herpetologist. He was the son of Mark Cooper Pope and Harriett Alexander Pope, and grew up in Washington, Georgia. Shortly after his graduation from the University of Virginia, Pope went to the Tropical Research Station at British Guiana, maintained...
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- Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
- C.R. Narayan Rao
- Johannes Christopher Hagemann ReinhardtJohan ReinhardtJohannes Christopher Hagemann Reinhardt was a professor in zoology at the University of Copenhagen.Born in Rendalen parish in Norway, his father, Johannes Henrik Reinhardt, was a priest, and his mother, Johanne Elisabeth Mommesen, was from Holmestrand . He was not baptized Johannes, but adopted...
(1778-1845) - Johannes Theodor ReinhardtJohannes Theodor ReinhardtJohannes Theodor Reinhardt was a Danish zoologist and herpetologist. He was the son of Johannes Christopher Hagemann Reinhardt....
(1816-1882) - Douglas A. RossmanDouglas A. RossmanDouglas A. Rossman is a U.S. herpetologist specializing in Garter snakes. He studied at the University of Florida, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in 1961.He was a professor of zoology at the Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana....
- Jean Roux
- Janis RozeJanis RozeJanis A. Roze, Ph.D., born in Latvia, is a herpetologist and Professor of Biology Emeritus of City College and Graduate School of the City University of New York. He was professionally associated with the American Museum of Natural History and the United Nations...
- Patrick RussellPatrick RussellPatrick Russell may refer to:* Sir Thomas Patrick Russell, known as Patrick Russell, , English High Court judge and a member of the Privy Council* Patrick Russell , Scottish surgeon and naturalist who worked in India...
- Alexander G. Ruthven
- Thomas SayThomas SayThomas Say was an American naturalist, entomologist, malacologist, herpetologist and carcinologist. A taxonomist, he is often considered to be the father of descriptive entomology in the United States. He described more than 1,000 new species of beetles and over 400 species of insects of other...
- Hermann SchlegelHermann SchlegelHermann Schlegel was a German ornithologist and herpetologist.-Early life and education:Schlegel was born at Altenburg, the son of a brassfounder. His father collected butterflies, which stimulated Schlegel's interest in natural history...
- Karl P. Schmidt
- Johann Gottlob SchneiderJohann Gottlob SchneiderJohann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider was a German classicist and naturalist.-Biography:Schneider was born at Collm in Saxony...
- Johann David Schoepff
- Donald SchultzDonald SchultzDonald Schultz is a South African herpetologist who travels the world getting samples from dangerous species. Schultz is on a show on Animal Planet called Wild Recon. He was also featured in Venom in Vegas, where he was put in a glass box full of deadly snakes in full view of the Las Vegas...
- Frederick A. ShannonFrederick A. ShannonFrederick A. Shannon was a U.S. herpetologist and medical doctor.-Biography:He was born in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, the son of Fred Albert Shannon and Edna M. Shannon....
- George ShawGeorge ShawGeorge Shaw was an English botanist and zoologist.Shaw was born at Bierton, Buckinghamshire and was educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, receiving his M.A. in 1772. He took up the profession of medical practitioner. In 1786 he became the assistant lecturer in botany at Oxford University...
- Joseph Bruno SlowinskiJoseph Bruno SlowinskiJoseph Bruno "Joe" Slowinski, Ph.D was an American herpetologist who worked extensively with elapid snakes.He was born on November 15, 1962 in New York City, New York...
- Andrew SmithAndrew Smith (zoologist)Sir Andrew Smith KCB was a Scottish surgeon, explorer, ethnologist and zoologist. He is considered the father of Zoology in South Africa having described many species across a wide range of groups in his major work, Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa.Smith was born in Hawick, Roxburghshire...
- Hobart Muir Smith
- Malcolm Arthur SmithMalcolm Arthur SmithMalcolm Arthur Smith was a herpetologist and physician working in the Malay Peninsula.-Early life:He was interested in reptiles and amphibians from an early age...
- Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de ManoncourtCharles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de ManoncourtCharles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt was a French naturalist. Between 1799 to 1808 he wrote 127 volumes of the Histoire naturelle. Noteworthy among these, especially for herpetologists, is Histoire naturelle des Reptiles, avec figures desinées d'après nature, in four volumes, which he...
- Franz SteindachnerFranz SteindachnerFranz Steindachner was an Austrian zoologist.- Work and career :Being interested in natural history, Steindachner took up the study of fossil fishes on the recommendation of his friend Eduard Suess...
- Leonhard Hess StejnegerLeonhard Hess StejnegerLeonhard Hess Stejneger was a Norwegian-born American ornithologist, herpetologist and zoologist. Stejneger specialized in vertebrate natural history studies. He gained his greatest reputation with reptiles and amphibians....
- Austin StevensAustin StevensAustin James Stevens is a South African-born herpetologist and wildlife photographer best known for hosting a series of snake documentaries. Austin is also the author of 2 books.-Biography:...
- Alexander StrauchAlexander Strauch (naturalist)Alexander Strauch was a Russian naturalist, most notably an herpetologist.His zoologist author abbreviation is Strauch.-External links:...
- John Kern Strecker, Jr.
- Olive Griffith StullOlive Griffith StullOlive Griffith Stull was an American herpetologist.Stull was born February 10, 1905, in Rochester, New York. She married Loy Davis in 1930, one year after completing her degree at the University of Michigan. She worked in the field of veterinary medicine and contributed to research in a variety of...
- Wilmer W. Tanner
- Edward Harrison TaylorEdward Harrison TaylorEdward Harrison Taylor was an American herpetologist from Kansas.He was born in Maysville, Missouri and studied at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, graduating with a B.A. in 1912. Subsequently, he went to the Philippines, where at first he held a teacher's post in a village in central...
- Donald W. TinkleDonald W. TinkleDonald Ward Tinkle was a prominent herpetologist, ecologist, and evolutionary biologist at the University of Michigan until his illness and death at age 50...
- Gustav TornierGustav TornierGustav Tornier was a German zoologist and paleontologist.-Life and career:...
- Gerald TroostGerald TroostGerald Troost was an American-Dutch medical doctor, naturalist, mineralogist, and founding member and first president of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences....
- Johann Jakob von TschudiJohann Jakob von TschudiJohann Jakob von Tschudi was a Swiss naturalist and explorer.Tschudi was born in Glarus, and studied natural sciences and medicine at the universities of Neuchâtel, Leiden and Paris. In 1838 he travelled to Peru, where he remained for five years exploring and collecting plants in the Andes...
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- Léon VaillantLéon VaillantLéon Louis Vaillant was a French zoologist. He is most famous for his work in the areas of herpetology, malacology, and ichthyology...
- Domenico VandelliDomenico VandelliDomenico Agostino Vandelli was an Italian naturalist, who did most of his scientific work in Portugal....
- John Van DenburghJohn Van DenburghJohn Van Denburgh was a U.S. herpetologist from California.He was born in San Francisco and enrolled at Stanford University in 1891. As of 1895, he organized the herpetology department of the California Academy of Sciences. In 1897 he got a Ph.D. from Stanford University. Additionally, he got an M.D...
- Paulo VanzoliniPaulo VanzoliniPaulo Emilio Vanzolini is a Brazilian scientist and music composer. He is best known by his samba compositions, including the famous 'Ronda' and 'Boca da Noite', and for his scientific works in herpetology. He is considered one of the greatest samba composers from São Paulo...
- Johann Georg WaglerJohann Georg WaglerJohann Georg Wagler was a German herpetologist.Wagler was assistant to Johann Baptist von Spix, and became Director of the Zoological Museum at the University of Munich after Spix's death in 1826...
- David B. WakeDavid B. WakeDavid B. Wake is professor of integrative biology and former curator of herpetology of Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California, Berkeley. Wake is an internationally respected expert on species formation and has written widely on the subject...
- Frank WallFrank WallFrank Wall was a physician and herpetologist who lived in Sri Lanka and India.Wall was born in Colombo, Ceylon . His father worked there and was responsible for initiating the study of natural history on the island. Wall studied medicine in London and joined the Indian Medical Service in 1893...
- Worth Hamilton WellerWorth Hamilton WellerWorth Hamilton Weller was an American herpetologist who died in a fall from a cliff at Grandfather Mountain near Linville North Carolina.Weller was born in Cincinnati, Ohio...
- Franz WernerFranz WernerFranz Werner was an Austrian zoologist and explorer. Specializing as a herpetologist and entomologist, Werner described numerous species and other taxa of frogs, snakes, insects, and other organisms....
- Yehudah Leopold WernerYehudah L. WernerYehudah Leopold Werner is an Israeli herpetologist and Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem ....
- Romulus WhitakerRomulus WhitakerRomulus Earl Whitaker is a herpetologist, wildlife conservationist and founder of the Madras Snake Park, The Andaman and Nicobar Environment Trust , and the Madras Crocodile Bank Trust....
- Prince Maximilian of Wied-NeuwiedPrince Maximilian of Wied-NeuwiedPrince Alexander Philipp Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied was a German explorer, ethnologist and naturalist....
- Arend Friedrich August WiegmannArend Friedrich August WiegmannArend Friedrich August Wiegmann was a German zoologist. He studied medicine and philology at the University of Leipzig, and afterwards was an assistant to Martin Lichtenstein in Berlin...
- Grace Olive WileyGrace Olive WileyGrace Olive Wiley was an American herpetologist best known for her work with venomous snakes. She died of a snakebite she received while posing for a photographer at the age of 64.-Background:...
- Kenneth L. WilliamsKenneth L. WilliamsKenneth Lee Williams is a herpetologist and author of books on the subject of snake biology and classification. Williams retired from teaching in the Biology department of Northwestern State University and received emeritus status in 2001...
- Eric WorrellEric WorrellEric Worrell was an Australian herpetologist and writer who was a pioneer in the production of snake anti-venom in Australia.Worrell was born in Sydney and grew up in Paddington...
- Albert Hazen WrightAlbert Hazen WrightAlbert Hazen Wright was a professor at Cornell University and a herpetologist. He was also an honorary member of the "International Ornithological Congress." He did a great deal of study of the Okefenokee Swamp. In 1955 he won the Eminent Ecologist Award....
- Wolfgang WüsterWolfgang WüsterWolfgang Wüster is a herpetologist and lecturer in zoology at the University of Wales.Wüster attained his bachelor's degree at the University of Cambridge in 1985 and his doctorate at University of Aberdeen in 1990. His primary area of research is the systematics and ecology of venomous snakes...
- Henry Crecy Yarrow