John Douglas Lynch

John Douglas Lynch (born July 30, 1942 in Iowa ) is an American herpetologist . His research focus is the neotropical herpetofauna .

Live and act

In 1964, Lynch researched the frog genus Eleutherodactylus in Mexico as part of his master's degree at the University of Illinois . After graduating with a Master of Science degree, he enrolled at the University of Kansas , where he studied zoology under William Edward Duellman . In 1967 he went on his first expedition to Ecuador , where he collected frogs of the genus Eleutherodactylus and the family of glass frogs (Centrolenidae). In 1969 Lynch received his PhD with the thesis " Evolutionary relationships and osteology of the frog family Leptodactylidae ".

During an expedition with María Cristina Ardila Robayo and Pedro Ruiz in 1980 in the highlands of the Colombian departments of Cauca and Huila , he discovered over 20 new frog species. From 1969 to 1997 Lynch taught as a professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln . In 1997 he became Associate Professor and Curator of Herpetology at the Instituto de Ciencias Naturales of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia . Lynch has lived in Colombia since 1999. In the summer of 2000 he was part of a team of scientists that was kidnapped for a few days by the Colombian guerrilla organization ELN .

Lynch was involved in the first scientific descriptions of over 200 frog species, including many taxa from the genera Eleutherodactylus, Pristimantis and Strabomantis .

Dedication names

The following taxa are named after John Douglas Lynch: Atelopus lynchi , Rhaebo lynchi , Centrolene lynchi , Colostethus lynchi , Hyloscirtus lynchi , Noblella lynchi , Pristimantis lynchi and the genera Lynchophrys and Lynchius . The type epithet of the salamander species Pseudoeurycea lynchi refers to the zoologist James Francis Lynch .

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personal data
SURNAME	Lynch, John Douglas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lynch, John D.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American herpetologist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 30, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH	Iowa