Ngô Văn Trí

Ngô Văn Trí (born February 28, 1969 in Đà Nẵng ) is a Vietnamese herpetologist . His main research interests are the lizards (especially geckos ) and snakes of Vietnam .

Life

Ngô Văn Trí was born and raised in Da Nang. After graduating from school, he worked as a bricklayer. This was followed by graduation from the Ho Chi Minh University of Natural Sciences and, from 2011, studying at the Institute of Tropical Biology of the Vietnamese Academy of Sciences and Technology in Ho Chi Minh City , where he received his Ph.D. in 2015. in ecology and evolutionary biology . Since July 1994 he has been a conservation biologist at the Department of Environmental Management and Technology at the Institute of Tropical Biology, where he is responsible for a collection of over 300 specimens of lizards. Since the 1990s, Ngô Văn Trí discovered numerous new species of gecko during hundreds of excursions to the forests of Bidoup-Núi Bà , Núi Chúa , Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng , the coastal Thổ Chu Islands and the island of Hon Khoai in the province Cà Mau . He was a contributor to Fauna and Flora International's (FFI) Indochina program .

First descriptions by Ngô Văn Trí

Ngô Văn Trí has been involved in the following initial descriptions since 2007 :

Caspis aurantiacopes Grismer & Ngo, 2007
Cnemaspis caudanivea Grismer & Ngo, 2007
Cnemaspis nuicamensis Grismer & Ngo, 2007
Cnemaspis psychedelica Grismer, Ngo & Grismer, 2010
Cnemaspis tucdupensis Grismer & Ngo, 2007
Cryptelytrops honsonensis Grismer, Ngo, Grismer, 2008
Cyrtodactylus bichnganae Tri & Grismer, 2010
Cyrtodactylus bobrovi Nguyen, Le, Van Pham, Ngo, Hoang, The Pham & Ziegler, 2015
Cyrtodactylus calamei Luu, Bonkowski, Nguyen, Le, Schneider, Ngo & Ziegler, 2016
Cyrtodactylus cucphuongensis Ngo & Onn, 2011
Cyrtodactylus culaochamensis Ngo van Tri, Grismer, Thai & Wood, 2020
Cyrtodactylus dati Ngo Van Tri, 2013
Cyrtodactylus eisenmanae Ngo Van Tri, 2008
Cyrtodactylus grismeri Ngo Van Tri, 2008
Cyrtodactylus hinnamnoensis Luu, Bonkowski, Nguyen, Le, Schneider, Ngo & Ziegler, 2016
Cyrtodactylus hontreensis Ngo, Grismer & Grismer, 2008
Cyrtodactylus huynhi Ngo & Bauer, 2008
Cyrtodactylus lomyenensis Ngo Van Tri & Pauwels , 2010
Cyrtodactylus martini Ngo Van Tri, 2011
Cyrtodactylus otai Nguyen, Le, Van Pham, Ngo, Hoang, The Pham & Ziegler, 2015
Cyrtodactylus phuquocensis , Tri, Grismer & Grismer, 2010
Cyrtodactylus pseudoquadrivirgatus Rösler, Nguyen, Vu, Ngo & Ziegler, 2008
Cyrtodactylus sommerladi Luu, Bonkowski, Nguyen, Le, Schneider, Ngo & Ziegler, 2016
Cyrtodactylus sonlaensis Nguyen, Pham, Ziegler, Ngo & Le, 2017
Cyrtodactylus takouensis Ngo & Bauer, 2008
Cyrtodactylus thochuensis Ngo Van Tri & Grismer, 2012
Cyrtodactylus yangbayensis Tri & Onn, 2010
Dixonius aaronbaueri Ngo & Ziegler, 2009
Dixonius minhlei Ziegler, Botov, Nguyen, Bauer, Brennan, Ngo & Nguyen, 2016
Gecko aaronbaueri Tri, Thai, Phimvohan, David, Teynié, 2015
Gekko canaensis Ngo & Gamble, 2011
Gekko russelltraini Ngo Van Tri, Bauer, Wood, & JL Grismer, 2009
Gekko takouensis Ngo & Gamble, 2010
Hemiphyllodactylus banaensis Ngo Van Tri, Grismer, Thai & Wood, 2014
Hemiphyllodactylus tehtarik Grismer, Wood Jr, Anuar, Muin, Quah, McGuire, Brown, Van Tri & Thai, 2013
Trimeresurus honsonensis (Grismer, Ngo & Grismer, 2008)

Dedication names

In 2009, Ngô Văn Trí discovered butterfly agamas in a restaurant in Bà Rịa , all of which were identical-looking females. He contacted his US colleagues Larry Lee Grismer and Jesse Leland Grismer , who flew to Vietnam and confirmed that it is a new species that occurs in the province of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tau and reproduces through parthenogenesis . In 2010 this form was first described by the Grismers as Leiolepis ngovantrii and named after Ngô Văn Trí.

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personal data
SURNAME	Ngô, Trí Văn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Vietnamese herpetologist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 28, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH	Da Nang , Vietnam