David B. Wake

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David Burton Wake (born June 8, 1936 in Webster , South Dakota , † April 29, 2021 ) was an American herpetologist and professor of integrative biology. His research focus was speciation . Wake's wife, Marvalee Hendricks , whom he married in 1962, is also a herpetologist.

Live and act

1958 gained Wake at Pacific Lutheran College in Tacoma , Washington the Bachelor of Arts in Biology . He then studied with Professor Jay Mathers Savage at the University of Southern California , where he graduated with a Master of Science degree in 1960 and a PhD in 1964 . From 1963 to 1964 he was a professor of biology at the University of Southern California. From 1964 to 1966 he taught anatomy and biology at the University of Chicago . From 1966 to 1969 he was an assistant professor of anatomy and biology at the University of Chicago. From 1969 to 1973, Wake was Associate Professor and Assistant Curator of Herpetology at the University of California, Berkeley . From 1971 to 1998 he was director of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1973 to 1989 he was Professor of Zoology and Curator of Herpetology at the University of California, Berkeley. In the 1980s he was a visiting professor at the University of Basel , the University of Bremen and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. From 1989 he was Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. David Burton Wake was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science , the Linnean Society of London , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1997), and the American Philosophical Society . In 1998 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences .

Wake has contributed to over 350 scientific publications. These include several first descriptions of genera and taxa from the family of pulmonary lots Salamander , including Brady Triton , Crypto Triton , Ixalotriton , Nototritdon , Nyctanolis , Karsenia , Urspelerpes and pseudoeurycea naucampatepetl .

In 2000, Wake was a co-founder of the AmphibiaWeb website .

Wake died in late April 2021 at the age of 84.

Honors and Dedication Names

In 1981 and 1982, Wake received a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1999 he was honored with the Fitch Award from the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. The salamander species Cryptotriton wakei , the Miriams skink ( Davewakeum miriamae ) and the frog species Wakea madinika are named after Wake . In the species epithet of the gecko species Cyrtodactylus wakeorum , both Wake and his wife are honored.

Works (selection)

  • Salamanders of the family Plethodontidae . Smith College Fiftieth Anniversary Publications. Vol. 7. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, 1972 (with Emmett Reid Dunn and Arden H. Brame)
  • Collections of Preserved Amphibians and Reptiles in the United States In: Herpetological Circulars 3. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, 1975
  • The Distribution, Ecology, and Evolutionary History of Plethodontid Salamanders in Tropical America Science Bulletin. Vol. 25 (with James Francis Lynch )
  • Complex Organizmal Functions: Integration and Evolution in Vertebrates: Report of the Dahlem Workshop on Complex Organizmal Functions - Integration and Evolution in Vertebrates, Berlin 1988, August 28-September 2 . Live Science Research Report. Vol. 45. Wiley, 1989
  • Geographic variation and speciation in the Torrent salamanders of the genus Rhyacotriton (Caudata: Rhyacotritonidae) . University of California Publications in Zoology, Vol. 126. University of California Press, 1992 (with David A. Good)

Literature on David B. Wake

  • Kraig Adler: Contributions to the History of Herpetology. Volume 2. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, 2007, ISBN 978-0-916984-71-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ It is with profound sadness. In: AmphibiaWeb. April 30, 2021, accessed May 1, 2021 (English, obituary for David B. Wake).
  2. ↑ Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson: The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians . Exeter, England: Pelagic Publishing, 2013, ISBN 978-1-907807-42-8 , pp. 355 ( google.com ).
  3. ↑ Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson: The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5 , pp. 66, 278-279 ( google.com ).
  4. ↑ Aaron M. Bauer: Descriptions of seven new Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) with a key to the species of Myanmar (Burma) . In: Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences . 54, No. 25, 2003, pp. 463-498.
personal data
SURNAME Wake, David B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wake, David Burton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American herpetologist and professor of integrative biology
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Webster , South Dakota
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 2021