Edgar Lehr

Edgar Lehr (born June 30, 1969 ) is a German herpetologist and conservationist. His main research area is the biogeography of the neotropical herpetofauna .

Life

After completing his community service in a senior citizens' home, Edgar Lehr completed his degree in biology from 1990 to 1996 at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . With the diploma thesis “ On the intraspecific variability of the rear Indian hinged turtle Cuora galbinifrons (Testudines: Emydidae) Bourret, 1939 ” he obtained his master’s degree in 1996 . In 2001 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. nat., “magna cum laude” in zoology with the dissertation “ The herpetofauna along the 10th parallel of Peru: species identification, taxonomy, ecological remarks and biogeographical relationships ”. From 2005 to 2006 he worked as a research assistant in the herpetology department at the Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center at the University of Kansas . Since 2007 he has been curator for herpetology at the Senckenberg Natural History Collections in Dresden . In 2008 he completed his habilitation with the thesis " On the taxonomy, morphology and phylogeny of strabomantider anuras in Peru " at the University of Koblenz-Landau .

Noblella pygmaea was only discovered by Edgar Lehr in 2009

Since 1993 Edgar Lehr has been participating in herpetological expeditions that took him to Vietnam , Cambodia and Peru . In Peru he supports conservation projects for amphibians and in Laos , Vietnam and Cambodia he works to protect turtles. He also described several new species of toads and southern frogs from Peru, including Bufo chavin and several taxa of the genus Phrynopus . Together with the Swiss-Peruvian herpetologist Alessandro Catenazzi, Lehr discovered the Peruvian species Noblella pygmaea in 2009 , which is considered to be the smallest known taxon of the Andean frogs.

Memberships

Edgar Lehr is a member of the following organizations: American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (ASIH), Association of Zoos & Aquariums (AZA), Česká společnost pro teraristiku a herpetologii v Praze (Czech Society for Terraristics and Herpetology, Prague), IUCN / SSC Amphibian Specialist Group, IUCN / SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group, BIOPAT , German Zoological Society , German Society for Herpetology and Terrarium Studies , the Herpetologists' League (HL), Societas Europaea Herpetologica (SEH), Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles (SSAR ) as well as in the Zoological Society for Species and Population Protection .

Dedication names

In 2007 the Peruvian frog species Eleutherodactylus lehri was named after Edgar Lehr.

Works

In addition to more than 60 scientific articles that were published in the specialist journals Copeia and Zootaxa , Edgar Lehr was involved in the following publications:

• Edgar Lehr: Amphibians and reptiles in Peru: The herpetofauna along the 10th parallel of Peru: species identification, taxonomy, ecological remarks and biogeographical relationships. Dissertation, Natur- und Tier-Verlag, Naturwissenschaft, Münster 2002
• LR Burke, LS Ford, E. Lehr, S. Mockford, PCH Pritchard, JPO Rosado, DM Senneke, BL Stuart: Non-Standard Sources in a Standardized World: Responsible Practice and Ethics of Acquiring Turtle Specimens for Scientific Use. Chelonian Research Monograph 4, pp. 142-146, 2007
• Edgar Lehr: The Telmatobius and Batrachophrynus (Anura: Leptodactylidae) species of Peru. In: EO Lavilla & I. De La Riva (eds.): Studies on the Andean Frogs of the Genera Telmatobius and Batrachophrynus. Asociación Herpetológica Española, Monografías de Herpetología, 7, pp. 39-64, 2005
• William E. Duellmann & Edgar Lehr: Terrestrial-Breeding Frogs (Strabomantidae) in Peru . Natur- und Tier-Verlag, 2009

literature

• Edgar Lehr curriculum vitae and catalog of works ( PDF full text )