Djoko Iskandar

Djoko Tjahjono Iskandar (born 1950) is an Indonesian herpetologist who studies the amphibians of Southeast Asia and Australasia. He is a professor of biosystematics and ecology at Bandung Institute of Technology in West Java, Indonesia.

Iskandar has been the first to describe many species of amphibian, including the Bornean flat-headed frog (Barbourula kalimantanensis) in 1978,[1][2] and, in 2014, Limnonectes larvaepartus, the only known frog that directly births tadpoles.[3] He is the author of The Amphibians of Java and Bali.[4] The monotypic banded watersnake genus Djokoiskandarus is named in his honour,[5] as are several species of lizard and frog.

  1. ^ Iskandar, Djoko T. (December 28, 1978). "A New Species of Barbourula: First Record of a Discoglossid Anuran in Borneo". Copeia. 1978 (4). American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists: 564–566. doi:10.2307/1443681. JSTOR 1443681.
  2. ^ Casey, Michael (April 10, 2008). "Frog with no lungs found in Indonesian wild". The Globe and mail. Toronto. Archived from the original on April 14, 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-10.
  3. ^ Iskandar, D. T.; Evans, B. J.; McGuire, J. A. (2014). "A Novel Reproductive Mode in Frogs: A New Species of Fanged Frog with Internal Fertilization and Birth of Tadpoles". PLOS ONE. 9 (12): e115884. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0115884. PMC 4281041. PMID 25551466.
  4. ^ Djoko T. Iskandar (1998). The Amphibians of Java and Bali. Pusat Penelitian dan Pengembangan Biologi. ISBN 978-979-579-014-3.
  5. ^ Murphy, John C. (August 31, 2011). "The nomenclature and systematics of some Australasian homalopsid snakes (Squamata:Serpentes: Homalopsidae)" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 59 (2). National University of Singapore: 229–236.[permanent dead link]