Allen Eddy Greer
Allen Eddy Greer | |
|---|---|
| Born | 20th century |
| Education | Harvard University |
| Known for | Taxonomy of Australian and Oceanian reptiles |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Herpetology |
| Workplaces | Australian Museum |
| Ernest Edward Williams | |
Allen Eddy Greer is an Australian herpetologist. He is a senior scientist at the Australian Museum in Sydney.
Greer received his PhD in 1973 under the supervision of Ernest Edward Williams at the Museum of Comparative Zoology of Harvard University. In 1974–75, he was an assistant curator in the Herpetology Department at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California, Berkeley, before joining the Australian Museum.[1]
Greer is credited with the original descriptions of 62 species of reptiles.[2] Among them is the genus Eremiascincus, which he described in 1979. The genus is commonly known as the night skinks.[3]
Publications
[edit]- The Biology and Evolution of Australian Snakes. Surrey Beatty & Sons, 1997.
- Encyclopedia of Australian Reptiles. Australian Museum Online, 2005.
References
[edit]- ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5.
- ↑ Uetz, Peter (2010). "The original descriptions of reptiles" (PDF). Zootaxa (2335): 59–68.
- ↑ Mecke, Sven; Kieckbusch, Max; Graf, Theresa; Beck, Lothar A.; O’Shea, Mark; Kaiser, Hinrich (2016-06-30). "First captive breeding of a night skink (Scincidae: Eremiascincus) from Timor-Leste, Lesser Sunda Islands, with remarks on the reproductive biology of the genus". Salamandra. 52 (2): 178–188. ISSN 0036-3375.
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