Larry Lee Grismer

Larry Lee Grismer (born November 19, 1955 ), often L. Lee Grismer or Lee Grismer , is an American herpetologist . He is a research fellow at the San Diego Natural History Museum . His research focus is the herpetofauna of Southeast Asia .

Life

In 1980, Grismer earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from San Diego State University . In 1986 he graduated from the same university with a Master of Science degree in biology. In 1994 he was at the Loma Linda University with a thesis on The evolutionary and ecological biogeography of the herpetofauna of Baja California and the Sea of Cortes, Mexico for Ph.D. PhD and then faculty member at La Sierra University in California , where he has been Professor of Biology since 2008 and Chairman of the Department of Biology until 2013.

Grismer studied from the 1980s, the reptiles and amphibians in California and almost 25 years in Baja California , what he the work in 2002. Amphibians and reptiles of Baja California, Including its Pacific islands, and the islands into the Sea of Corte's published. Since 2002 he has been researching in Southeast Asia, particularly Malaysia , Myanmar , Thailand , Cambodia , Laos , China , Vietnam and Indonesia , where he is concerned with evolutionary biology , biogeography and the systematics of geckos , skinks and snakes . His main interest is hidden species found in karst regions . In collaboration with other herpetologists, including his son Jesse Leland Grismer , born in 1983 , Indraneil Das , Ngô Văn Trí , Perry L. Wood, Jr. and Aaron M. Bauer , he described over 150 species of reptiles. He also described around 23 new amphibian species, including the toad species Ansonia smeagol and Ingerophrynus gollum , both of which were named after the character Gollum from Tolkien's The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings novels.

In 2011 the Chimaira publishing house in Frankfurt am Main published the two works Lizards of Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, and their adjacent archipelagos and Amphibians and Reptiles of the Seribuat Archipelago (Peninsular Malaysia) - A Field Guide .

Grismer is a member of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists .

In 2004 he worked with his son in the documentation Reptile Kings: Search for the Lost Viper radio station Animal Planet with where he is to search for the Grubenotternart Popeia buniana on the Malay island of Pulau Tioman goes.

Dedication names

The species Crotaphytus grismeri (1994), Cyrtodactylus grismeri (2008), Dendrelaphis grismeri (2008), Cyrtodactylus leegrismeri (2010) and Cnemaspis grismeri (2013) are named after Lee Grismer .

literature

• Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson: Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles , Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011
• Larry Lee Grismer. American Men & Women of Science: A Biographical Directory of Today's Leaders in Physical, Biological, and Related Sciences, Gale, 2008. Biography in Context, Online , accessed March 6, 2018.

Web links

• Employee profile at La Sierra University