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Place of Birth: Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
About Frank Glaw
- Frank Rainer Glaw (born 22 March 1966 in Düsseldorf) is a German herpetologist working at the Zoologische Staatssammlung München.
- Glaw studied biology in Cologne from 1987, where he completed his diploma.
- Thereafter, he attended the University of Bonn, from which he graduated in 1989, after completing his Ph.D.
- thesis titled Untersuchungen zur Bioakustik, Systematik, Artenvielfalt und Biogeographie madagassischer Anuren about the frogs of Madagascar, supervised by Professor Wolfgang Böhme.
- Since 1997, he has been the curator of herpetology at the Zoologische Staatssammlung München.
- Glaw's focus during and after his thesis work was the herpetofauna of Madagascar.
- Since the end of the 1980s, he has been working closely with Miguel Vences, currently professor for evolutionary biology and zoology at the Technische Universität Braunschweig.
- Together, they published A Field Guide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Madagascar in 1992, a benchmark work on the amphibians and reptiles of Madagascar, which, supported by the World Bank, was translated into Malagasy and made freely available online.
- It is now in its third edition.Glaw is a contributing author on over 200 descriptions of Madagascan taxa, such as the chameleon Brookesia micra and the microhylid frog Stumpffia pygmaea.Several species are named in after Frank Glaw: a species of chamaeleon, Calumma glawi; a species of protist, Eimeria glawi; and a species of stick insect, Glawiana glawi.
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