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Pygomeles Braconnieri
''Pygomeles braconnieri'', also known commonly as Braconnier's short skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Madagascar. Etymology The specific name, ''braconnieri'' is in honor of French naturalist Séraphin Braconnier (1812–1884). Bour R, Brygoo É-R (2013). "''Séraphin Braconnier (1812–1884), le premier «garçon de laboratoire» de la chaire des Reptiles et Poissons du Muséum de Paris'' ". ''Bulletin de la Société Herpétologique de France'' 148: 503–513. (in French). Geographic range ''P. bracconieri'' is found in southwestern Madagascar. Habitat The preferred natural habitat of ''P. braconnieri'' is sandy soil in both the supralittoral zone The supralittoral zone, also known as the splash zone, spray zone or the supratidal zone, sometimes also referred to as the white zone, is the area above the spring high tide line, on coastlines and estuaries, that is regularly splashed, but not su ... and forest, at altitud ...
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Alfred Grandidier
Alfred Grandidier (20 December 1836 – 13 September 1921) was a French naturalist and explorer. From a very wealthy family, at the age of 20, he and his brother, Ernest Grandidier (1833–1912), undertook a voyage around the world. At first they were led by the astronomer and physicist Pierre Jules César Janssen (1824–1907), but when Janssen fell sick and had to return to France after about six months, the brothers continued the journey. They visited South America in 1858 and 1859 and in particular the Andes, Peru , image_flag = Flag of Peru.svg , image_coat = Escudo nacional del Perú.svg , other_symbol = Great Seal of the State , other_symbol_type = Seal (emblem), National seal , national_motto = "Fi ..., Chile, Bolivia, Argentina and Brazil. During this voyage they gathered a significant collection of specimens which were analyzed, in 1860, by Ernest. The two brothers parted ways after this. Ernest Grandidier ...
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Reptiles Of Madagascar
Reptiles, as most commonly defined are the animals in the class Reptilia ( ), a paraphyletic grouping comprising all sauropsids except birds. Living reptiles comprise turtles, crocodilians, squamates (lizards and snakes) and rhynchocephalians (tuatara). As of March 2022, the Reptile Database includes about 11,700 species. In the traditional Linnaean classification system, birds are considered a separate class to reptiles. However, crocodilians are more closely related to birds than they are to other living reptiles, and so modern cladistic classification systems include birds within Reptilia, redefining the term as a clade. Other cladistic definitions abandon the term reptile altogether in favor of the clade Sauropsida, which refers to all amniotes more closely related to modern reptiles than to mammals. The study of the traditional reptile orders, historically combined with that of modern amphibians, is called herpetology. The earliest known proto-reptiles originated aroun ...
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Pygomeles
''Pygomeles'' is a genus of skinks, lizards in the family Scincidae. The genus is endemic to Madagascar. Classification There are three species that are recognized as being valid. *'' Pygomeles braconnieri'' – Braconnier's short skink *'' Pygomeles petteri'' – Petter's short skink *'' Pygomeles trivittatus'' References Further reading * Brygoo É-R (1984). "''Systématique des lézards scincides de la région malgache. XIV. Le genre ''Pygomeles'' A. Grandidier 1867'' ". ''Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, Série quatrième'' ourth Series ''Section A'', 6: 769–777. (in French). * Glaw F, Vences M (2006). ''A Field Guide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Madagascar, Third Edition''. Cologne, Germany: Vences & Glaw Verlag. 496 pp. . * Grandidier A (1866). "''Liste des reptiles nouveaux découverts, en 1866, sur la côte sud-ouest de Madagascar'' ". ''Revue et magasin de zoologie pure et appliquée et de sériciculture comparée'', Series 2, 19: 232–234 ...
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Johannes Müller (herpetologist)
Johannes Müller, Johann Müller or Hans Müller is the name of: * Johannes Müller von Königsberg (1436–1476), known as Regiomontanus, German mathematician and astronomer * Johannes von Müller (1752–1809), Swiss historian * Johannes Peter Müller (1801–1858), German physiologist, comparative anatomist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist * Johannes Müller Argoviensis (1828–1896), Swiss botanist * Johannes Müller (theologian) (1864–1949) * Johannes Müller (Marburg) (1880–1964), German politician and mayor of Marburg * Johannes Müller (archaeologist) (born 1960), German archaeologist See also * Johan Müller (other) * Johann Müller (other) * Hans Müller (other) * Müller (surname) The German word Müller means "miller" (as a profession). It is the most common family surname in Germany, Switzerland, and the French départements of Bas-Rhin and Moselle (with the spelling Müller, Mueller or Muller) and is the fifth most common ...
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Andolalao Rakotoarison
Andolalao Rakotoarison (born 1982 in Mahajanga) is a Malagasy herpetologist. Life and research Rakotoarison conducted her Master's thesis at the University of Antananarivo in 2011. She then conducted her PhD at the Technical University of Braunschweig on the systematics of the frogs of the Madagascar-endemic narrow-mouthed frog subfamily Cophylinae, under the supervision of Professor Miguel Vences. As of mid-2020, she has co-authored the description of 52 frog species and two reptiles (one gecko and one chameleon). In particular, Rakotoarison has contributed to knowledge of Madagascar's smallest frogs. In 2017, she led a study published as a monograph with sixteen other coauthors, describing 26 new species of the genus '' Stumpffia'', including several frogs that number among the smallest in the world, and in 2020, she was also involved in the description of five more miniaturised frogs, including the new genus ''Mini The Mini is a small, two-door, four-seat car, d ...
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Marcelo Gehara
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Miguel Vences
Professor Miguel Vences (born 24 April 1969 in Cologne) is a German herpetologist and evolutionary biologist. Much of his research is focused on the reptiles and amphibians of Madagascar. Life The son of Galician philosopher Sergio Vences Fernández (1936–2012), Vences attended the Schiller-Gymnasium Köln from 1979 to 1988, and graduated with the German Abitur. The following year he began to study Biology at the University of Cologne. There he met Frank Glaw, and as undergraduate students they undertook their first excursions to Madagascar. 496 pp. After completing the Vordiplom in 1993, Vences transferred to the University of Bonn and the Museum König, where he completed his Diplom studies. Vences continued his studies there as a PhD student under the supervision of Wolfgang Böhme until 2000. His thesis was on the evolutionary history of true frogs ( Ranoidea) and related families in Madagascar. Thereafter, he worked for one year at the National Museum of Natural Hi ...
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Frank Glaw
Frank Rainer Glaw (born 22 March 1966 in Düsseldorf) is a German people, German Herpetology, herpetologist working at the Zoologische Staatssammlung München. Glaw studied biology in Cologne from 1987, where he completed his diploma. Thereafter, he attended the University of Bonn, from which he graduated in 1999, after completing his Ph.D. thesis titled ''Untersuchungen zur Bioakustik, Systematik, Artenvielfalt und Biogeographie madagassischer Anuren'' about the frogs of Madagascar, supervised by Professor Wolfgang Böhme. Since 1997, he has been the curator of herpetology at the Zoologische Staatssammlung München. Glaw's focus during and after his thesis work was the herpetofauna of Madagascar. Since the end of the 1980s, he has been working closely with Miguel Vences, currently professor for evolutionary biology and zoology at the Technische Universität Braunschweig. Together, they published ''A Field Guide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Madagascar'' in 1992, a benchmark ...
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