Gunther Koehler

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Gunther Köhler (born May 20, 1965 in Hanau ) is a German herpetologist . His research is primarily in Central America and the West Indies .

Life

In 1995 Köhler received his doctorate in natural sciences at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main with a dissertation on the systematics and ecology of black iguanas (genus Ctenosaura) . Since November 1995 he has been a curator at the Department of Herpetology and since 2004 Acting Head of the Department of Terrestrial Zoology at the Senckenberg Research Institute .

The projects of Köhler and his research group focus on the study of the neotropical herpetofauna in Central and South America, especially in Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua and Bolivia. The studies are taxonomic, zoogeographical and phylogenetic, with the anoles forming one of the main groups.

In 1994 he succeeded in rediscovering the Utila iguana , a species previously only known from the type specimens from 1901. Since April 1998 Köhler has been running a conservation breeding program on Utila together with the Frankfurt Zoological Society .

In 2016 he and S. Blair Hedges presented a revision of the anole species of Hispaniola . These include eight newly discovered species that are limited to small areas of distribution and are threatened with extinction.

Köhler was involved in the first descriptions of over 120 reptile and amphibian species, including from the genera Agama , Anolis , Brookesia , Ctenosaura , Paracontias , Stenocercus , Leptopelis and Pristimantis .

In his spare time, Köhler is a member of the Aschaffenburg country band Flagstaff.

In 1992 Köhler's wife Elke founded Herpeton Verlag in Offenbach with the aim of providing reptile owners with particularly well-founded knowledge about their fosterlings.

Dedication names

In 2011 the salamander species Oedipina koehleri ​​was named after Gunther Köhler.

Fonts (selection)

  • The green iguana. Biology care breeding diseases , Herpeton Verlag Offenbach, 1992
  • Diseases of amphibians and reptiles . Ulmer Verlag Stuttgart (in the Datz Terrienbücher series), 1996
  • Incubation of reptile eggs - basics, instructions, experiences. , Herpeton Verlag Offenbach, 1997
  • Basilisks, helmet iguanas, crown basilisks , Herpeton Verlag Offenbach, 1999
  • Tejus. Lifestyle care breeding , Herpeton Verlag Offenbach, 2000
  • Reptiles and Amphibians of Central America, Volume 1: Crocodiles, Tortoises, Lizards , Herpeton Verlag Offenbach, 2000
  • Reptiles and Amphibians of Central America, Volume 2: Snakes , Herpeton Verlag Offenbach, 2000
  • The green iguana in the terrarium. Care and breeding Herpeton Verlag Offenbach, 2000
  • Black iguanas: way of life, care, breeding , Herpeton Verlag Offenbach, 2002
  • Bearded dragons: way of life, care and breeding Herpeton Verlag Offenbach, 2005 (with Karsten Grießhammer and Norbert Schuster)
  • Kornnattern Herpeton Verlag Offenbach, 2005 (with Philipp Berg, D. Bohle and M. Glass)
  • Leopard geckos: care, breeding, diseases, color variants Herpeton Verlag Offenbach, 2005 (with Karsten Grießhammer)

literature

  • Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson: The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians. Pelagic Publishing, Exeter, 2013. ISBN 978-1-907807-41-1 , p. 114

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Profile of the Terrestrial Zoology and Herpetology Department at the Senckenberg Research Institute
  2. ↑ Gunther Koehler, Elke Blinn: Natural hybridization between Ctenosaura bakeri and Ctenosaura similis on Utila, Honduras. Salamandra, Rheinbach, March 31, 2000, 36 (1), pp. 77-79
  3. ↑ Frankfurter Neue Presse: Senckenberg scientists discover eight new lizards from April 26, 2016
  4. ↑ Gunther Köhler, S. Blair Hedges: A revision of the green anoles of Hispaniola with description of eight new species (Reptilia, Squamata, Dactyloidae) In: Novitates Caribaea No. 9, 2016, pp. 1–135
  5. ^ Köhler's first descriptions of reptiles in the Reptile Database
  6. ^ Köhler's first descriptions of amphibians in Amphibian Species of the World 6.0, an Online Reference
  7. ↑ Offenbach Post: "Flaggstaff": Not only for line dancers from December 16, 2014
  8. ↑ Javier Sunyer, Josiah H. Townsend, David B. Wake, Scott L. Travers, Sergio C. Gonzalez, Lenin A. Obando, Ardiel Z. Quintana: A new cryptic species of salamander, genus Oedipina (Caudata: Plethodontidae), from premontane elevations in northern Nicaragua, with comments on the systematic status of the Nicaraguan paratypes of O. pseudouniformis Brame, 1968. Breviora 526, 2011, pp. 1-16.
personal data
SURNAME Koehler, Gunther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German herpetologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau