Richard Carl Vogt
Richard Carl Vogt (born August 6, 1949 in Madison , Wisconsin ), also known as Dick Vogt , is an American herpetologist . His main research interests are freshwater turtles.
Life
Vogt is the son of Carl Donald and Pearl Valerine Vogt, nee Blodgette. In 1978 he was awarded a Ph.D. PhD from the University of Wisconsin . From 1978 to 1981 a postdoctoral phase followed as a research assistant at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh . From 1981 to 2000 he was a professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Veracruz . Since 2000 he has been researcher and curator for amphibians and reptiles at the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia in Manaus . In 1989 he was a visiting professor there. Vogt is the coordinator of the IUCN / Species Survival Commission specialist group for neotropical freshwater turtles and turtles .
Vogt's scientific contributions include ecological studies of complete freshwater turtle communities , long-term studies of the lifestyle of freshwater turtles in the Neotropics of Mexico and Brazil, and work on temperature-controlled sexing in turtles.
In 1999 Vogt was one of the first to describe the viper species Cerrophidion petlalcalensis from Mexico. He has published over 100 scientific articles in the journals Herpetologica , Copeia , Journal of Herpetology , Auk , Herpetological Review , American Midland Naturalist , Tulane Studies in Zoology , Journal of Experimental Zoology, and Ciencia . His books include Natural history of amphibians and reptiles in Wisconsin (1981), The Encyclopedia of Reptiles, Amphibians & Invertebrates (2006), Amazon Turtles (2008), Rain Forests (2009, German translation: insider knowledge: Regenwald by Regina Schneider) and The Turtles of Mexico: Land and Freshwater Forms (with John Marshall Legler , 2013).
Dedication names
In 2018, the folding turtle species Kinosternon vogti from Mexico was named after Richard Carl Vogt.
Web links
- Profile at the Turtle Conservancy
- Profile at the IUCN / SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group
Individual evidence
- ↑ Marco A. López-Luna, Fabio G. Cupul-Magaña, Armando H. Escobedo-Galván, Adriana J. González-Hernández, Eric Centenero-Alcalá, Judith A. Rangel-Mendoza, Mariana M. Ramírez-Ramírez and Erasmo Cazares -Hernández: A Distinctive New Species of Mud Turtle from Western México. Chelonian Conservation and Biology, 2018. doi : 10.2744 / CCB-1292.1
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vogt, Richard Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vogt, Dick (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American herpetologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 6, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Madison , Wisconsin |