David Eduard van Dijk

David Eduard van Dijk
Born (1925-09-14) 14 September 1925 (age 99)
District Heidelberg, South Africa
Other namesEddie
Education
Known for
SpouseHester Edmundia (née Heese)
Scientific career
FieldsHerpetology, Paleontology
Institutions

David Eduard van Dijk (born 14 September 1925) is a Herpetologist and Paleontologist and author of a number of Biology textbooks.[1]

Species named for him include the frog, Amietia vandijki (Van Dijk's river frog) (Visser & Channing).,[2] first known only as tadpoles; the fossil plant bug, Australoprosoboloides vandijki (Riek);[3] the plant fossil, "Estcourtia vandijki" (Anderson & Anderson) and the genus Vandijkophrynus (Van Dijk's toads)[4]

Eddie has published in a number of fields including Zoology, Geology, Ichnology and Paleontology over a more than 65 year academic career, with the first, his M.Sc thesis in 1955 and most recently, publication of an article on Ichnology in 2021.

He has compiled bibliographies on African Anura (Frogs and Toads), African Tadpoles, African Fossil Frogs, and African Vertebrate Ichnology (Tracks and other Trace Fossils).[1]

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