Frank Glaw

Frank Rainer Glaw (born March 22, 1966 in Düsseldorf ) is a German herpetologist . Glaw studied biology in Cologne from 1987 and graduated with a diploma. He then went to the University of Bonn , where he in 1989 with the work studies on bio-acoustics, systematics, biodiversity and biogeography Malagasy Anura about Anura Madagascar doctorate . Since 1997 he has been a curator at the Zoological State Collection in Munich . Glaw's main focus was on Madagascar's herpetofauna both during his studies and after his dissertation . He has worked closely with Miguel Vences since the late 1980s . Together they wrote A Field Guide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Madagascar in 1992 , a standard work for the amphibians and reptiles of Madagascar, which - supported by a program of the World Bank - was translated into Malagasy and is available free of charge on the Internet. The third edition has now appeared.

Glaw is (mostly together with Vences) the author of over 200 first descriptions of Malagasy taxa , for example the chameleon Brookesia micra , the narrow- mouth frog Stumpffia pygmaea and the fish family Anchariidae .

Several animal species are dedicated to Frank Glaw: a chameleon, Calumma glawi ; a protist, Eimeria glawi ; and a stick insect , Glawiana glawi .

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literature

• Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson: The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore MD 2011, ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5 .
• Frank Glaw, Miguel Vences : A Field Guide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Madagascar. Vences & Glaw, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-929449-03-7 .

Web links

• Miguel Vences: Miguel Vences home.
• Zoological State Collection Munich: Publications of Frank Glaw. www.zsm.mwn.de, 2005.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Glaw & Vences 2007 , p. 496.
2. ↑ Vences 2012 . Retrieved February 19, 2011.
3. ↑ Beolens 2011 , G.
4. ↑ Zoological State Collection Munich 2005 . Retrieved February 19, 2012.