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Martha L. "Marty" Crump is a behavioral ecologist in the Department of Biology and the Ecology Center at Utah State University who studies amphibians and reptiles.Crump was the first individual to perform a long-term ecological study on a community of tropical amphibians, and did pioneering work in the classification of variability in amphibian egg size as a function of habitat predictability.
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).
In a foreword to a 1995 edition of the Handbook of Frogs and Toads, Roy McDiarmid wrote:. Having recently read several papers by Mary Hinckley written in the 1880s on the morphology and development of North American tadpoles, I concluded that had more tadpole workers followed her example and presented stylized illustrations of tadpole mouthparts, we would be further along in our quest to ...
The generic name Sternotherus is Greek meaning hinged breast or chest, referring to the hinged plastron. [3] The trivial names, or specific epithets include: carinatus – Latin for keeled in reference to the shape of the carapace; [4] depressus – Latin for pressed down or low also referring to the shape of the carapace; [5] intermedius – Latin for intermediate, historically believed to be ...
Bibliotheca Herpetologica: A Journal of the History and Bibliography of Herpetology is a biannual peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the history of herpetology and its bibliography. It is published by the [International Society for the History and Bibliography of Herpetology].
The journal was established in 2006, with the first issue appearing in September. [1] In 2012 it was included in the Journal Citation Reports. [2] In September 2014, the journal became an incorporated nonprofit corporation.
In 1937, he became the editor of the herpetology and ichthyology journal Copeia, a post he occupied until 1949. In 1938, he served in the U.S. Army . He became the chief curator of zoology at the Field Museum in 1941, where he remained until his retirement in 1955.
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.