David C. Cannatella

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David Charles Cannatella (born December 25, 1954 ) is an American herpetologist , functional anatomist , zoologist and professor of integrative biology.

Life

From 1972 Cannatella studied zoology at the University of Southwestern Louisiana , where he obtained a Bachelor of Science in 1976 . From 1976 he studied systematics and ecology at the University of Kansas , where he graduated in 1979 with a Master of Arts and 1981 with a Master of Philosophy and in 1985 with the dissertation A phylogeny of primitive frogs (archaeobatrachians) under the direction of Linda Trueb to Ph.D . received his doctorate. In 1986 he was visiting professor at the Department of Zoology at the University of California, Berkeley .

From 1986 to 1988 he received a grant from the National Science Foundation , with which he completed his postdoctoral phase under the direction of David B. Wake and Marvalee H. Wake at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1988 to 1990 he was an assistant professor and curator at the Museum of Natural Science and the Department of Zoology and Physiology at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge . In 1990 he became a curator at the Texas Memorial Museum at the University of Texas at Austin . From 1995 to 2000 he was a senior lecturer in the Department of Zoology at the University of Texas at Austin. From 2001 to 2004 he was an assistant professor in the Integrative Biology Department at the University of Texas at Austin. From 2005 to 2007 he was an associate professor and since 2007 he has been a full professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. Since 2014 he has been chairman of the integrative biology department at the University of Texas at Austin.

From 2002 to 2003, Cannatella was President of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, and from 2004 to 2005 he was President of the Society of Systematic Biologists . From 2011 to 2012 he carried out research in Brazil with a Fulbright grant .

Cannatella's laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin deals primarily with the systematics and evolution of frogs . Salamanders , birds and bird fossils are also examined . Lizards and snakes have also been studied in the past. The general research projects include phylogenomics , phylogeography , historical biogeography , bioacoustics , systematics and taxonomy , neotropical frogs, behavioral ecology , chemical ecology and fossil frogs.

Cannatella is a contributor to the Tree of Life Web Project , where he writes about the Salientia parentage .

Initial descriptions of Cannatella

Cannatella was involved in the initial descriptions of the following genera and species:

Dedication names

In 2012 the frog species Armobates cannatellai and Osteocephalus cannatellai were named after David C. Cannatella. The Cannatella of 1,984 described species or 1,986 Hypotdactylus lucida and Osornophryne talipes have in English the common name Cannatella's Andes Frog and Toad Cannatella's Plump.

literature

  • Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson: The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians. Pelagic Publishing, Exeter, 2013. ISBN 978-1-907807-41-1 , p. 37
  • Curriculum Vitae (PDF, automatic download, as of 2017)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Salientia" by David C. Cannatella at Tolweb
personal data
SURNAME Cannatella, David C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cannatella, David Charles (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American herpetologist, zoologist, functional anatomist, and professor of integrative biology
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1954