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Richard Carl "Dick" Vogt (August 06, 1949 – January 17, 2021) was an American herpetologist based in Brazil. He was the director of the Centro de Estudos de Quelônios da Amazônia (Center for the Study of Amazonian Turtles) at the National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA).
Herpetology (from Greek ἑρπετόν herpetón, meaning "reptile" or "creeping animal") is a branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs, salamanders, and caecilians (Gymnophiona)) and reptiles (including snakes, lizards, turtles, crocodilians, and tuataras).
The journal was named after Edward Drinker Cope, a renowned 19th century herpetologist, naturalist, and paleontologist, who identified thousands of vertebrate species.In 2020, members of the Society raised the issue that the name of the journal be changed because Cope, a staunch Lamarckian, flaunted his views on race and women, which were undeniably offensive even during his Civil War-era ...
On December 27, 1913, John Treadwell Nichols published the first issue of Copeia (since first 2021 issue called Ichthyology & Herpetology), a scientific journal dedicated to the knowledge of fish, reptiles, and amphibians. Nichols named Copeia to commemorate Edward Drinker Cope, a prominent 19th-century ichthyologist and herpetologist.
E Karl Eichwald Martin Eisentraut [de] Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz Alberto R. Estrada [fr] Susan E. Evans Eduard Friedrich Eversmann Joseph Fortuné Théodore Eydoux F Soumia Fahd Julián Faivovich [fr] Albert-Auguste Fauvel Fei Liang Géza Fejérváry (naturalist) [fr] Harold S. Ferguson (1851–1921) William Ferguson (1820–1887) Adam Finell (herpetologist) (2004-) Frank Finn Johann ...
Herpetological Monographs is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the zoology of amphibians and reptiles.It is published annually by the Herpetologists' League and was established in 1982.
Raymond Terrence Hoser (born 1962) is an Australian snake-catcher and author.. Hoser's work on herpetology is controversial, including his advocacy of the surgical alteration of captive snakes to remove their venom glands and his self-published herpetological taxonomy, which has been described as "taxonomic vandalism".
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.