Yehudah L. Werner

Yehudah L eopold Werner (* 1931 in Munich ) is an Israeli herpetologist and professor emeritus at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (Department of Evolution, Systematics and Ecology).

Life

He and his parents had to flee Nazi Germany to the British Mandate Palestine in 1935 . He became a student of Georg Haas (1905–1981), a herpetologist and paleontologist of Austrian origin who taught in Jerusalem. In his long scientific career Werner published over 400 papers, including a. about gecko biology as well as zoogeography and the protection of Middle Eastern reptiles and amphibians .

In addition, Werner described a number of amphibian and reptile taxa for the first time or again for science (alone or with co-authors):

Hyla heinzsteinitzi Grach, Plesser & Werner, 2007 (this species is a synonym of Hyla japonica apparently introduced to Israel, see Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 49: 1019-1024).
Acanthodactylus ahmaddisii Werner, 2004 [a fringed finger lizard ( Eremiainae )]
Acanthodactylus beershebensis Moravec, Baha El Din, Seligmann, Sivan & Werner, 1999 [a fringed finger lizard ( Eremiainae )]
Acanthodactylus pardalis (Lichtenstein, 1823) Moravec, Baha El Din, Seligmann, Sivan & Werner, 1999 [a fringed finger lizard ( Eremiainae )]
Asaccus nasrullahi Werner, 2006 [a gecko ]
Cerastes cerastes Werner, Sivan, Kushnir & Motro 1999
Cerastes cerastes hoofieni Werner & Sivan, 1999
Cerastes gasperettii Werner, 1987
Cerastes gasperettii Werner, Le Verdier, Rosenman & Sivan, 1991
Cerastes gasperettii mendelssohni Werner & Sivan, 1999
Eirenis coronella ibrahimi Sivan & Werner, 2003
Eirenis coronelloides Sivan & Werner, 2003
Laudakia stellio salehi Werner, 2006
Mesalina bahaeldini Segoli, Cohen & Werner, 2002 [a desert runner ( Eremiainae )]

Micrelaps tchernovi Werner, Babocsay, Carmely & Thuna, 2006 [a Erdviper ( Atractaspididae )]

Ptyodactylus hasselquistii krameri Werner, 1995 [a gecko ]

Note: Herpetological first descriptions with the author's name "Werner" from the years 1893–1938 come from the Austrian zoologist Franz Werner †.

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^ Adler, K. (1989): Contributions to the History of Herpetology . - Society for the study of amphibians and reptiles: 202 pp. ISBN 0-916984-19-2 .
↑ Grach, C., Plesser, Y. & YL Werner (2007): A new, sibling, tree frog from Jerusalem (Amphibia: Anura: Hylidae) . - Journal of Natural History 41 (9-12): pp. 709-728.
↑ Werner, YL (2004): A new species of the Acanthodactylus pardalis group (Reptilia: Lacertidae) from Jordan . - Zoology in the Middle East 32 : pp. 39-46.
↑ ^a ^b Moravec, J., Baha El Din, S., Seligmann, H., Sivan, N. & YL Werner (1999): Systematics and distribution of the Acanthodactylus Pardalis group (Lacertidae) in Egypt and Israel . - Zoology in the Middle East 17 : pp. 21-50.
↑ Werner, YL (2006): Retraction of Ptyodactylus Goldfuss from the fauna of Iran and its replacement by a new species of Asaccus Dixon & Anderson (Reptilia: Sauria: Gekkonidae) . - Hamadryad 30 : pp. 135-140.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Werner, YL, Sivan, N., Kushnir, V. & U. Motro (1999): A statistical approach to variation in Cerastes (Ophidia: Viperidae) with the description of two endemic subspecies . - In: Joger, U. [ed.]: Phylogeny and Systematics of the Viperidae. Kaupia 8 : pp. 83-97.
↑ Werner, YL, Le Verdier, A., Rosenman, D. & N. Sivan (1991): Systematics and zoogeography of Cerastes (Ophidia: Viperidae) in the Levant: I. Distinguishing Arabian from African Cerastes cerastes . - The Snake 23 : pp. 90-100.
↑ ^a ^b Sivan, N. & YL Werner (2003): Revision of the Middle-Eastern dwarf-snakes commonly assigned to Eirenis coronella (Colubridae) . - Zoology in the Middle East 28 : pp. 39-59.
↑ Lachmann, E., Carmely, H. & YL Werner (2006): Subspeciation befogged by the "Seligmann effect": the case of Laudakia stellio (Reptilia: Sauria: Agamidae) in southern Sinai, Egypt . - Journal of Natural History 40 (19-20): pp. 1259-1284.
↑ Segoli, M., Cohen, T. & YL Werner (2002): A new lizard of the genus Mesalina from Mt.Sinai, Egypt (Reptilia: Squamata: Sauria: Lacertidae) . - Faunistic treatises 23 (1): pp. 157–176.
↑ Werner, YL, Babocsay, G., Carmely, H. & M. Thuna (2006): Micrelaps in the southern Levant: variation, sexual dimorphism, and a new species (Serpentes: Atractaspididae) . - Zoology in the Middle East 38 : pp. 29-48.
↑ Werner, YL (1995): Some unusual accidental herpetological finds from Cyprus and Lebanon, including a new Ptyodactylus (Reptilia: Lacertilia: Gekkonidae) . Biologia Gallo-Hellenica 22 ("1994"): pp. 67-76.

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personal data
SURNAME	Werner, Yehudah L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Werner, Yehudah Leopold (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Israeli herpetologist
DATE OF BIRTH	1931
PLACE OF BIRTH	Munich

[1] Adler, K. (1989): Contributions to the History of Herpetology . - Society for the study of amphibians and reptiles: 202 pp. ISBN 0-916984-19-2 .

[2] Grach, C., Plesser, Y. & YL Werner (2007): A new, sibling, tree frog from Jerusalem (Amphibia: Anura: Hylidae) . - Journal of Natural History 41 (9-12): pp. 709-728.

[3] Werner, YL (2004): A new species of the Acanthodactylus pardalis group (Reptilia: Lacertidae) from Jordan . - Zoology in the Middle East 32 : pp. 39-46.

[Moravec-4] Moravec, J., Baha El Din, S., Seligmann, H., Sivan, N. & YL Werner (1999): Systematics and distribution of the Acanthodactylus Pardalis group (Lacertidae) in Egypt and Israel . - Zoology in the Middle East 17 : pp. 21-50.

[5] Werner, YL (2006): Retraction of Ptyodactylus Goldfuss from the fauna of Iran and its replacement by a new species of Asaccus Dixon & Anderson (Reptilia: Sauria: Gekkonidae) . - Hamadryad 30 : pp. 135-140.

[Werner-6] Werner, YL, Sivan, N., Kushnir, V. & U. Motro (1999): A statistical approach to variation in Cerastes (Ophidia: Viperidae) with the description of two endemic subspecies . - In: Joger, U. [ed.]: Phylogeny and Systematics of the Viperidae. Kaupia 8 : pp. 83-97.

[7] Werner, YL, Le Verdier, A., Rosenman, D. & N. Sivan (1991): Systematics and zoogeography of Cerastes (Ophidia: Viperidae) in the Levant: I. Distinguishing Arabian from African Cerastes cerastes . - The Snake 23 : pp. 90-100.

[Sivan-8] Sivan, N. & YL Werner (2003): Revision of the Middle-Eastern dwarf-snakes commonly assigned to Eirenis coronella (Colubridae) . - Zoology in the Middle East 28 : pp. 39-59.

[9] Lachmann, E., Carmely, H. & YL Werner (2006): Subspeciation befogged by the "Seligmann effect": the case of Laudakia stellio (Reptilia: Sauria: Agamidae) in southern Sinai, Egypt . - Journal of Natural History 40 (19-20): pp. 1259-1284.

[10] Segoli, M., Cohen, T. & YL Werner (2002): A new lizard of the genus Mesalina from Mt.Sinai, Egypt (Reptilia: Squamata: Sauria: Lacertidae) . - Faunistic treatises 23 (1): pp. 157–176.

[11] Werner, YL, Babocsay, G., Carmely, H. & M. Thuna (2006): Micrelaps in the southern Levant: variation, sexual dimorphism, and a new species (Serpentes: Atractaspididae) . - Zoology in the Middle East 38 : pp. 29-48.

[12] Werner, YL (1995): Some unusual accidental herpetological finds from Cyprus and Lebanon, including a new Ptyodactylus (Reptilia: Lacertilia: Gekkonidae) . Biologia Gallo-Hellenica 22 ("1994"): pp. 67-76.