James Francis Lynch

James Francis Lynch (born November 19, 1942 in Boston , Massachusetts , † March 26, 1998 in Shady Side , Maryland ) was an American zoologist and conservationist.

Life

Lynch graduated from Harvard College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in geology in 1964. He then studied at the University of California, Berkeley . After studying geology for two years, he switched to zoology, where he received his PhD in 1974 with the doctoral thesis " Ontogenetic and geographic variation in the morphology and ecology of the black salamander, Aneides flavipunctatus ". PhD. That same year, Lynch became a research fellow at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater , Maryland, where he served 24 years. As an employee of the World Wildlife Fund and the American Bird Conservancy , he was also involved in wildlife conservation projects in Mexico, Guatemala and Kenya.

Lynch wrote about 60 scientific articles on ecology and conservation. Together with his colleague David B. Wake , he wrote the first scientific descriptions of the salamander species Cryptotriton veraepacis , Dendrotriton cuchumatanus , Dendrotriton rabbi , Pseudoeurycea parva and Pseudoeurycea saltator . In 2001, Wake named the Mexican salamander species Pseudoeurycea lynchi in honor of James Francis Lynch.

James Francis Lynch died of cancer in 1998.

literature

• Alicia Mathis (Ed.): The Newsletter of the Herpetologists' League April 1999. Volume 6, Number 1
• Kraig Adler: Contributions to the History of Herpetology. Volume 2. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, 2007, ISBN 9780916984717 .

Web links

• Harvard-Radcliffe Class of 1964 Obituaries ( February 5, 2004 memento in the Internet Archive )