Uwe Fritz

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Uwe Fritz (born October 31, 1963 in Backnang ) is a German zoologist. His research focus is herpetology .

Life

From 1982 to 1989 Fritz had a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation , with which he completed a biology degree from 1985 to 1989 at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart . From 1990 to 1996 he worked as a curator in the aquarium house of the Wilhelma zoological-botanical garden in Stuttgart. In 1996 he received his doctorate under the direction of Hinrich Rahmann as a Doctor rerum naturalium at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart. In 1996 he became curator for herpetology at the Museum für Tierkunde Dresden . In 1997 he became deputy director at the Museum für Tierkunde Dresden and lecturer for vertebrate morphology and systematics at the Faculty of Biosciences , Pharmacy and Psychology at the University of Leipzig . In 2000 he became head of the vertebrate department and in 2001 director at the Museum für Tierkunde Dresden. In 2004 he completed his habilitation and received the license to teach at the University of Leipzig. From 2005 to 2009 he was managing director of the Senckenberg Natural History Collections in Dresden . In 2008 he became an adjunct professor at the University of Leipzig. He has been a member of the Senckenberg Board of Directors since 2009, where he is responsible for collections and scientific journals.

Fritz co- first described at least thirteen species of tortoise, including Cuora picturata , Cyclemis enigmatica , Cyclemis fusca , Cyclemis gemeli , Pelomedusa barbata , Emys trinacris and Trachemys medemi . In 2013 he was able to demonstrate through a DNA comparison that the subspecies Pelusios subniger parietalis from the Seychelles is not an independent taxon , but that it is specimens of the nominate form of Pelusios subniger from mainland Africa that were brought to the Seychelles by humans . In the same year, Fritz published a DNA study in which he demonstrated that the species Pelusios seychellensis from the Seychelles, which was thought to be extinct, was a misidentification. This species was only known from three specimens collected on the Seychelles island of Mahé in 1895 . However, the DNA analysis came to the conclusion that the three specimens represent the species Pelusios castaneus from the African mainland and that Pelusios seychellensis was therefore never a valid taxon.

In addition to numerous specialist articles, Fritz has written several books on turtles, including Handbuch der Reptilien und Amphibien Europa, Schildkröten I (terrestrial and pond turtles) Bataguridae, Testudinidae (2001), Die Europäische Sumpfschildkröte (2003), Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Emys orbicularis ( 2004), Handbook of the Reptiles and Amphibians of Europe, Volume 3 Turtles II Sea Turtles (2005), Checklist of Chelonians of the World (2007) and The Turtles of Europe (2012).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uwe Fritz, William R. Branch, Philip-Sebastian Gehring, James Harvey, Carolin Kindler, Leon Meyer, Louis Du Preez, Pavel Široký, David R. Vieites, Miguel Vences: Weak divergence among African, Malagasy and Seychellois hinged terrapins (Pelusios castanoides, P. subniger) and evidence for human-mediated oversea dispersal. Organisms Diversitiy Evolution (2013), 13: 215-224, doi : 10.1007 / s13127-012-0113-3
  2. ↑ Heiko Stuckas, Richard Gemel, Uwe Fritz: One Extinct Turtle Species Less: Pelusios seychellensis Is Not Extinct, It Never Existed PLoS ONE 8 (4): e57116, 2013. doi : 10.1371 / journal.pone.0057116
personal data
SURNAME Fritz, Uwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Backnang