Fei Liang ( zh, 费梁; 1936 – 4 June 2022) was a Chinese herpetologist.

Biography

Fei was admitted to

Sichuan Agricultural University Sichuan Agricultural University (SCAU) is a provincial public agricultural university headquartered in Ya'an, Sichuan, China. It is affiliated with the Province of Sichuan, and co-sponsored by the Ministry of Education and the provincial governm ...

in 1956 where he majored in animal husbandry. After graduating in 1961, he began working for the , where he began research on amphibians. He started as an assistant to amphibian research experts and , but began leading a team of researchers in 1980 alongside his wife,

Ye Changyuan Ye Changyuan (born 1936) is an amphibian expert in the People's Republic of China and a researcher at the Amphibian and Reptile Laboratory of the Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Biography In 1956, Ye Changyuan was ad ...

. In total, the couple are credited with discovering over 126 new species. Fei Liang died in

Chengdu Chengdu; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ; Chinese postal romanization, previously Romanization of Chinese, romanized as Chengtu. is the capital city of the Chinese province of Sichuan. With a ...

on 4 June 2022.

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1936 births 2022 deaths Chinese herpetologists Sichuan Agricultural University alumni People from Chengdu Date of birth missing {{Zoologist-stub