Ignacio De la Riva
Ignacio José de la Riva de la Viña (born January 8, 1960 ) is a Spanish herpetologist . His research focus is the neotropical herpetofauna .
Life
In 1986, De la Riva obtained a Masters degree from the Complutense University of Madrid . From June 1986 to December 1987 he was a fellow of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and later commissioner of the Estación Biológica de Doñana for the cataloging of the herpetological collection. From January 1988 to August 1990 he had a scholarship from the Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana, through the Asociación de Amigos de Doñana, for the realization of his doctoral thesis in Bolivia . From April 1991 to December 1992 he had a scholarship from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria . In 1993 he was at the Complutense University of Madrid with a thesis Ecología de una comunidad de neotropical ANFIBIOS durante la estación lluviosa led by Javier Castroviejo and Luis Felipe López-Jurado for doctor doctorate. From May to December 1993 he worked for the Belgian company Agreco as part of the ECOFAC program and with funds from the European Economic Community as a forest ecologist to assess the biodiversity in the Monte Alén National Park in Equatorial Guinea . From April 1994 to April 1996 he conducted research on a postdoctoral fellowship at the Museum of Natural History at the University of Kansas . From May to June 1995 he carried out a study of amphibians and reptiles under the direction of Santiago Castroviejo as part of the project inventory of the fauna and flora of the Parque Nacional Coiba, Panama . Since May 1996 De la Riva has been a senior researcher at the Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology of the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in Madrid .
His main research interests include taxonomy , systematics , phylogenesis , biogeography and the way of life of reptiles and amphibians. His main focus is on the tropical frogs from Latin America . His further interests are the theoretical aspects of taxonomy and systematics, such as species concepts, the gap between phylogenies and classifications, the effects of naming species, integrative taxonomy, and much more. De la Riva has been researching the Neotropics since 1987 and the main target of his research were the Andean and Amazonian frogs of Bolivia and southern Peru. He also devotes himself to the Bolivian lizard species of the genus Liolaemus , nature conservation and research into the extent and effect of chytridiomycosis on amphibians in Bolivia. Regarding reptiles, he works with a large international team to study the effects of climate change on lizards around the world.
One of De la Riva's most famous discoveries is the Sehuencas water frog ( Telmatobius yuracare ) from Bolivia. From 2008 only one male named Romeo was known of this species, until five more specimens were rediscovered in early 2019.
First descriptions by Ignacio De la Riva
Ignacio De la Riva was involved in the following initial descriptions :
- Atelopus loettersi De la Riva, Castroviejo-Fisher, Chaparro, Boistel, Padial, 2011
- Boana gladiator (Köhler, Koscinski, Padial, Chaparro, Handford, Lougheed, De la Riva, 2010)
- Boana palaestes (Duellman, De la Riva, Wild, 1997)
- Boophis arcanus Glaw, Koehler, De la Riva, Vieites, Vences, 2010
- Boophis entingae Glaw, Koehler, De la Riva, Vieites, Vences, 2010
- Boophis haingana Glaw, Koehler, De la Riva, Vieites, Vences, 2010
- Boophis luciae Glaw, Koehler, De la Riva, Vieites, Vences, 2010
- Boophis miadana Glaw, Koehler, De la Riva, Vieites, Vences, 2010
- Boophis piperatus Glaw, Koehler, De la Riva, Vieites, Vences, 2010
- Boophis praedictus Glaw, Koehler, De la Riva, Vieites, Vences, 2010
- Boophis roseipalmatus Glaw, Koehler, De la Riva, Vieites, Vences, 2010
- Boophis sandrae Glaw, Koehler, De la Riva, Vieites, Vences, 2010
- Boophis spinophis Glaw, Koehler, De la Riva, Vieites, Vences, 2010
- Bryophryne bakersfield Chaparro, Padial, Gutiérrez, De la Riva, 2015
- Bryophryne bustamantei (Chaparro, De la Riva, Padial, Ochoa, Lehr, 2007)
- Bryophryne quellokunka De la Riva, Chaparro, Castroviejo-Fisher, Padial, 2017
- Bryophryne tocra De la Riva, Chaparro, Castroviejo-Fisher, Padial, 2017
- Bryophryne wilakunka De la Riva, Chaparro, Castroviejo-Fisher, Padial, 2017
- Gastrotheca antoniiochoai (De la Riva & Chaparro, 2005)
- Gephyromantis runewsweeki Vences and De la Riva, 2007
- Hyalinobatrachium carlesvilai Castroviejo-Fisher, Padial, Chaparro, Aguayo-Vedia, De la Riva, 2009
- Lynchius oblitus Motta, Chaparro, Pombal, Guayasamin, De la Riva, Padial, 2016
- Lynchius tabaconas Motta, Chaparro, Pombal, Guayasamin, De la Riva, Padial, 2016
- Microkayla ankohuma (Padial & De la Riva, 2007)
- Microkayla chacaltaya (De la Riva, Padial, Cortéz, 2007)
- Microkayla chapi De la Riva, Chaparro, Castroviejo-Fisher, Padial, 2017
- Microkayla chaupi (De la Riva & Aparicio, 2016)
- Microkayla chilina De la Riva, Chaparro, Castroviejo-Fisher, Padial, 2017
- Microkayla colla (De la Riva, Aparicio, Soto, Ríos, 2016)
- Microkayla condoriri (De la Riva, Aguayo, Padial, 2007)
- Microkayla guillei (De la Riva, 2007)
- Microkayla harveyi (Muñoz, Aguayo, De la Riva, 2007)
- Microkayla huayna De la Riva, F. Cortez, Burrowes, 2017
- Microkayla iani (De la Riva, Reichle, Cortéz, 2007)
- Microkayla illampu (De la Riva, Reichle, Padial, 2007)
- Microkayla illimani (De la Riva & Padial, 2007)
- Microkayla kallawaya (De la Riva & Martínez-Solano, 2007)
- Microkayla katantika (De la Riva & Martínez-Solano, 2007)
- Microkayla kempffi (De la Riva, 1992)
- Microkayla melanocheira (De la Riva, Ríos, Aparicio, 2016)
- Microkayla quimsacruzis (De la Riva, Reichle, Bosch, 2007)
- Microkayla saltator (De la Riva, Reichle, Bosch, 2007)
- Microkayla teqta (De la Riva & Burrowes, 2014)
- Nannophryne apolobambica (De la Riva, Ríos, Aparicio, 2005)
- Noblella carrascoicola (De la Riva & Koehler, 1998)
- Oreobates amarakaeri Padial, Chaparro, Castroviejo-Fisher, Guayasamin, Lehr, Delgado, Vaira, Teixeira, Aguayo-Vedia, De la Riva, 2012
- Oreobates gemcare Padial, Chaparro, Castroviejo-Fisher, Guayasamin, Lehr, Delgado, Vaira, Teixeira, Aguayo-Vedia, De la Riva, 2012
- Oreobates ibischi (Reichle, Lötters, De la Riva, 2001)
- Oreobates lehri (Padial, Chaparro, De la Riva, 2007)
- Oreobates machiguenga Padial, Chaparro, Castroviejo-Fisher, Guayasamin, Lehr, Delgado, Vaira, Teixeira, Aguayo-Vedia, De la Riva, 2012
- Oreobates madidi (Padial, Gonzales-Álvarez, De la Riva, 2005)
- Oreobates sanderi (Padial, Reichle, De la Riva, 2005)
- Phrynopus mariellaleo Venegas, Barboza, De la Riva, Padial, 2018
- Phrynopus miroslawae Chaparro, Padial, De la Riva, 2008
- Phyllomedusa camba De la Riva, 1999
- Phyllomedusa chaparroi Castroviejo-Fisher, Koehler, De la Riva, Padial, 2017
- Pristimantis koehleri Padial & De la Riva, 2009
- Pristimantis reichlei Pristimantis reichlei Padial & De la Riva, 2009
- Proctoporus carabaya Padial, Chaparro, Castroviejo-Fisher & De La Riva, 2013
- Proctoporus iridescens Padial, Chaparro, Castroviejo-Fisher & De La Riva, 2013
- Proctoporus kiziriani Padial, Chaparro, Castroviejo-Fisher & De La Riva, 2013
- Psychrophrynella usurper De la Riva, Chaparro, Padial, 2008
- Rhinella tacana (Padial, Reichle, McDiarmid, De la Riva, 2006)
- Scinax castroviejoi De la Riva, 1993
- Scinax chiquitanus (De la Riva, 1990)
- Telmatobius edaphonastes De la Riva, 1995
- Telmatobius espadai De la Riva, 2005
- Telmatobius mantaro Ttito, Landauro, Venegas, De la Riva, Chaparro, 2016
- Telmatobius mendelsoni De la Riva, Trueb, Duellman, 2012
- Telmatobius sibiricus De la Riva & Harvey, 2003
- Telmatobius timens De la Riva, Aparicio, Ríos, 2005
- Telmatobius yuracare De la Riva, 1994
- Yunganastes pluvicanorus (De la Riva & Lynch, 1997)
Dedication names
Jörn Koehler and Stefan Lötters named the frog species Dendropsophus delarivai after De la Riva in 2001 .
literature
- Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson: The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians. Pelagic Publishing, Exeter, 2013. ISBN 978-1-907807-41-1 , p. 54
Web links
- Employee profile at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales
- Curriculum vitae (status: 2004)
- Literature by and about Ignacio De la Riva in the WorldCat bibliographic database
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Riva, Ignacio De la |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Riva de la Viña, Ignacio José De la (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish herpetologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 8, 1960 |