Edwin Nicholas Arnold

Edwin Nicholas "Nick" Arnold (born October 16, 1940 ) is a British herpetologist .

Life

In 1966 Arnold became a research associate at the Zoological Department of the Natural History Museum in London . In 1970 he became scientific director and in 1978 scientific director of the herpetological department. He retired in October 2000. Since 2005 he has been working as a research assistant in herpetological research.

Arnold's main research areas include the recent herpetofauna of the Arabian Peninsula and the subfossil herpetofauna of the Mascarene Islands .

In 1977 he wrote a revision of the genus Scincus . In 1978 he published the book A field guide to the reptiles and amphibians of Britain and Europe , which in the same year was translated into German under the title Parey's Reptile and Amphibian Guide to Europe. A Quick Reference Guide for biologists and nature lovers at Verlag Paul Parey appeared. In 1980 he transferred the extinct Mauritius giant skink from the monotypical genus Didosaurus to the genus Leiolopisma . In 2002 his book Reptiles and amphibians of Europe was published .

In a study published in 2003 jointly with Jeremy J. Austin and Roger Bour , he demonstrated that the giant tortoise species described by Bour as Dipsochelys arnoldi in 1980 is a synonym for the Aldabra giant tortoise .

Dedication names

After Arnold are Aldabrachelys gigantea arnoldi (synonym: Dipsochelys arnoldi ) Hemidactylus arnoldi , the Montseny Brook Newt ( Carlo Triton arnoldi ) and the lizard Mesalina arnoldi named.

Web links

List of species described by Edwin Nicholas Arnold in the Reptile Database

Individual evidence

^ Edwin Nicholas Arnold and Alan E. Leviton: A revision of the lizard genus Scincus , British Museum (Natural History), 1977.
^ EN Arnold: Recently extinct reptile populations from Mauritius and Réunion, Indian Ocean. Journal of Zoology 191 (1), 1980, pp. 33-47.
^ Jeremy J. Austin, E. Nicholas Arnold, Roger Bour (2003): Was there a second adaptive radiation of giant tortoises in the Indian Ocean? Using mitochondrial DNA to investigate speciation and biogeography of Aldabrachelys (Reptilia, Testudinidae) . - Molecular Ecology, 12 (6)

personal data
SURNAME	Arnold, Edwin Nicholas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Arnold, Nick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British herpetologist
DATE OF BIRTH	October 16, 1940

[1] Edwin Nicholas Arnold and Alan E. Leviton: A revision of the lizard genus Scincus , British Museum (Natural History), 1977.

[2] EN Arnold: Recently extinct reptile populations from Mauritius and Réunion, Indian Ocean. Journal of Zoology 191 (1), 1980, pp. 33-47.

[3] Jeremy J. Austin, E. Nicholas Arnold, Roger Bour (2003): Was there a second adaptive radiation of giant tortoises in the Indian Ocean? Using mitochondrial DNA to investigate speciation and biogeography of Aldabrachelys (Reptilia, Testudinidae) . - Molecular Ecology, 12 (6)