Darrel Frost

Frost next to diorama of a reticulated python.

Darrel Richmond Frost (born 1951)[1] is an American herpetologist and systematist. He was previously head curator of herpetology at the American Museum of Natural History, as well as president of both the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles (1998) and the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (2006).[1][2] Four taxa are named in his honor: the toad genus Frostius (which includes Frost's Toad), the tree frog Dendropsophus frosti,[1] Darrel's Chorus Frog Microhyla darreli,[3] and Frost's arboreal alligator lizard Abronia frosti.[4][5]

  1. ^ a b c Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2013-04-22). The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians. Exeter, England: Pelagic Publishing. pp. 73–74. ISBN 9781907807442.
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  4. ^ Campbell, Jonathan A., Mahmood Sasa, Manuel Acevedo and Joseph R. Mendelson, III. (1998). "A new species of Abronia (Squamata: Anguidae) from the High Cuchumatanes of Guatemala". Herpetologica 54 (2): 221-234.
  5. ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Frost, D., p. 95).