Gregory Pregill
Gregory Kent Pregill (born November 27, 1946 in Los Angeles , California , United States ) is an American herpetologist . His research focus is the fossil and recent herpetofauna from islands of the Caribbean and the Pacific.
Life
After earning a Bachelor of Arts from Baylor University , Pregill graduated from San Diego State University with a Master of Science degree in Zoology in 1975 . In 1979 he was with the dissertation Late pleistocene herpetofaunas from Puerto Rico at the University of Kansas for Ph.D. PhD in systematics and ecology . After graduating, he was a research fellow (Fellow in Residence) at the United States National Museum of the Smithsonian Institution for two years . He then became curator and head of the herpetological department of the San Diego Natural History Museum . Since 1993 he has been a professor at the University of San Diego's Faculty of Biology . He teaches biodiversity , evolution , biogeography , vertebrate science and the development of vertebrate structures. He also offers interdisciplinary seminars on the biological effects of overpopulation in the New World.
Pregill conducts research on the vertebrate fauna of islands, especially amphibians and reptiles . Field studies have taken him to almost all islands in the Caribbean and many more in the southern and western Pacific. Combining palaeontology with biogeography, he assesses the long-term changes in vertebrate species and populations, particularly those that occurred during the transition from pre-cultural to cultural environments. Pregill has written numerous articles and monographs on his research, including Phylogenetic Relationships of the Lizard Families in 1988 and Late Quaternary Vertebrate Faunas of the Lesser Antilles: Historical Components of Caribbean Biogeography in 1994 , which was created in collaboration with David William Steadman .
Pregill described three extinct species from the genus of the smooth-headed iguanas ( Leiocephalus ), including Leiocephalus anonymus (1984), Leiocephalus etheridgei (1981) and Leiocephalus partidus (1981), as well as the most recent one in 2012 in collaboration with George Robert Zug , Ivan Ineich and Alison M. Hamilton Skinkart Emoia mokolahi from Tonga .
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| SURNAME | Pregill, Gregory |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pregill, Gregory Kent (full name); Pregill, Gregory K .; Pregill, Greg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American herpetologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 27, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Los Angeles , California , United States |