Albert Schwartz (zoologist)
Albert Schwartz | |
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| Born | September 13, 1923 Miami, Florida , U.S. |
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| Fields | Herpetology |
Albert Schwartz (September 13, 1923 – October 18, 1992) was an American
Anole Taxonomy".[3]
Career
Schwartz obtained his PhD from the
anoles.[3] In the late 1970s, when Schwartz saw the number of new amphibians and reptiles he could describe from the West Indies diminishing, he shifted his attention to butterflies.[1]
Legacy
Schwartz published 230 papers on West Indian biology. 80 of the amphibian and reptile species he had described were recognized as valid in 1993;[1] he is credited to have described 14% of the entire West Indian herpetofauna.[3] Schwartz is one of the top-10 most productive alpha-taxonomists in herpetology, having described 299 reptiles (species and subspecies) that were still valid in 2018.[6] A number of taxa are named in his honor, including the following:[2][5]
- Anolis schwartzi – may be a subspecies of Anolis wattsi
- Chilabothrus chrysogaster schwartzi
- Eleutherodactylus schwartzi– Schwartz's robber frog, Virgin Islands coqui
- Schwartzius – a subgenus of Eleutherodactylus
- Sphaerodactylus schwartzi – Guantanamo collared sphaero
- Tarentola albertschwartzi– a gecko
- Tropidophis schwartzi – a dwarf boa
- Typhlops schwartzi– Schwartz's worm snake
- Artibeus schwartzi – Schwartz's fruit-eating bat
Works
- Schwartz A, Thomas R (1975). A Check-list of West Indian Amphibians and Reptiles. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication No. 1. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Carnegie Museum of Natural History. 216 pp.
- Schwartz A, ISBN 0-8130-1049-7.
References
- ^ JSTOR 1447281.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-907807-44-2.
- ^ a b c d Glor, Rich (December 19, 2011). "The Kings of West Indian Anole Taxonomy IV: Albert Schwartz". Anole Annals. Retrieved October 8, 2015.
- ^ Various authors (1978). Carnegie Museum of Natural History: 1978 Annual Report. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Carnegie Museum of Natural History. 56 pp. ("Amphibians & Reptiles", p. 39).
- ^ ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Schwartz, p. 239)
- PMID 29689772.
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