Aaron M. Bauer

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Aaron Matthew Bauer (born June 27, 1961 in New York City ) is an American herpetologist .

Bauer graduated from Michigan State University with a bachelor's degree in history and zoology in 1982 and a PhD in zoology from the University of California, Berkeley , in 1986 . He was a post-doctoral student at the University of Calgary and from 1988 at Villanova University , where he is Professor of Biology , with a full professorship since 1995. He is also Associate Professor at Stellenbosch University and Research Associate of the National Museum of Natural History , the Herpetology Department of the California Academy of Sciences, and the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard .

His work includes over 585 scientific publications on the systematics, evolution, paleontology, ecology and biogeography of reptiles, especially lizards. He is also concerned with the history of herpetology and has been to field studies in Namibia , South Africa , Angola , Australia , New Caledonia , India and Malaysia .

He is the first to describe over 150 species of reptiles .

He was President of the Herpetological Association of Africa and the Herpetologists League (2000/01), Secretary General of the World Congress of Herpetology and is President of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles . He was also on the Council of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists .

Dedication names

Four species of gecko are named after Aaron M. Bauer, including Cnemaspis baueri (2003 by Indraneil Das and Larry Lee Grismer ), Dixonius aaronbaueri (2009 by Ngô Văn Trí and Thomas Ziegler ), Gekko aaronbaueri (2015 by Ngô Văn Trí, Pham Hong Thai, Anorath Primvohan, Patrick David and Alexandre Teynié) and Hemidactylus aaronbaueri (2008 by Varad Bhagwan Giri).

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References and comments

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004.
  2. ↑ According to Gans Collections, see web link. 98 species up to 2010 according to Peter Uetz: The original descriptions of reptiles, Zootaxa, No. 2335, 2010, 59–68, (pdf)
personal data
SURNAME Bauer, Aaron M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bauer, Aaron Matthew (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American herpetologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City