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- American Museum of Natural History
Herpetology is the collection-based research division that focuses on the systematics of Recent amphibians and reptiles. Its global holdings conjure memories of the Museum's great expeditions, some lasting a decade or more, and of an ongoing procession of smaller expeditions that have built a collection with few parallels.
Curators, research associates, and postdoctoral fellows in the Department of Herpetology have as their central work documenting the diversity and reconstructing the evolutionary history of amphibians and reptiles. They work also on related aspects of comparative anatomy and behavior, conservation, genetics, philosophy and scientific methods. Curators also maintain extensive field programs, including faunistic surveys of amphibians and reptiles in various regions of tropical America.
http://research.amnh.org/herpetology/Herpetology Faculty/Staff:
Darrel Frost (curator-in-charge), David Kizirian, Charles W. Myers (emeritus), Christopher Raxworthy, and Richard G. Zweifel (emeritus). Contact Info:
Darrel Frost, frost@amnh.org
Department of Herpetology
Central Park West at 79th Street
New York, New York 10024
(212) 769-5852
- Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture
Currently, the Herpetological Collection at the Burke Museum has major strengths in amphibians and garter snakes from the Pacific Northwest. The collection contains about 2,200 amphibian and reptile specimens cataloged in the computerized database; nearly all are entire specimens stored in 70% ethanol. There are many large series of forest-dwelling amphibians from western Washington. Approximately 2,000 additional specimens are still being cataloged. About half of these specimens are garter snakes collected in the 1940s in the Puget Sound region. The remainder include many Pacific Northwest amphibians, reptiles from Washington and the western U.S., and a few reptile skeletons.
http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/herp/herpcollection.htmHerpetology Faculty/Staff:
Keith Aubry, Curator. Contact Info:
Keith Aubry, kaubry@fs.fed.us
Herpetology Collection, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture
Box 353010
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington 98195-3010
(206) 543-5590
- California Academy of Science
The first herpetological specimen was received by the Academy in December of 1853, a Galapagos tortoise carapace. Between 1853 and 1895 the herpetology collections were part of the Department of Zoology. In 1895 John Van Denburgh was appointed as Curator of the reptile and amphibian collection by the Academy's Board of Trustees, and a Department of Herpetology was established as a separate research unit within the Academy museum.
The collection currently totals 257,367 specimens.
http://www.calacademy.org/research/herpetology/Herpetology Faculty/Staff:
Robert C. Drewes (curator), Alan E. Leviton (curator). Contact Info:
Robert C. Drewes,
Department of Herpetology
California Academy of Science
Golden Gate Park
San Francisco, California 94118-4599
(415) 750-7041
- Carnegie Museum of Natural History
The CM collection is one of the 10 largest Herpetological collections in the United States with ca. 207,000 catalogued specimens. It was built primarily under the tenure of past Curators M. Graham Netting and C. J. McCoy who combined had over 80 plus years associated with the collections. Netting and others during the time had interest primarily in amphibians whereas McCoy and his associates focused on reptiles, and later in his career had special emphasis on turtles. The result was that the collections became well balanced with ca. 60,000 Caudata, 60,000 Salientia. 31,000 Sauria, 29,000 Serpentes, and 27,500 Testudines. Many of the turtle specimens are hatchlings resulting from temperature incubation studies conducted by Richard Vogt (primarily Graptemys) and the late Michael Ewert, who worked with over 100 species of turtles over his career.
http://www.carnegiemnh.org/herps/index.htmHerpetology Faculty/Staff:
Stephen P. Rogers, Collection Manager. Contact Info:
Stephen P. Rogers, rogerss@carnegiemnh.org
Section of Amphibians and Reptiles
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
4400 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213-4080
(412) 622-3255 or 3258
- Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates
The CUMV Herpetology Collection became one of the leading university based herpetology collections in North America during the first half of this century, largely because of the efforts of Professor Albert Hazen Wright and his wife, Anna Allen Wright. The major strengths of the collection, amphibians from the southeastern United States and both reptiles and amphibians from the Northeast, reflects the intensive collection by the Wrights. Much of the material collected by the Wrights in New York and Georgia is not duplicated elsewhere. At present, the cataloged collection contains 29,000 alcoholic specimens, 172 dry skeletons, and 457 cleared and stained specimens. In all appoximately 300 species of amphibians and 500 species of reptiles are represented.
http://www.cumv.cornell.edu/Herpetology Faculty/Staff:
John P. Friel (curator), Harry W. Greene (curator), Kelly R. Zamudio (curator). Contact Info:
Kelly R. Zamudio, krz2@cornell.edu
Department of Herpetology
Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates
E151 Corson Hall
Ithaca, New York 14553-2701
607-254-4212
- Florida Museum of Natural History
Approximately 149,000 specimens. Skeletal collection more than 11,000 disarticulated skeletons and a small number of cleared and stained specimens. An average of 3,800 specimens a year are catalogued. The collection contains 50 holotypes and 844 paratypes representing 171 taxa. FLMNH is used informally to refer to the collection; the correct acronym is UF.
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/herpetology/herpetology.htmHerpetology Faculty/Staff:
Dr. Max A. Nickerson, K. Krysko. Contact Info:
Dr. Max A. Nickerson, maxn@flmnh.ufl.edu
Florida Museum of Natural History
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida 32601
(352) 392-1721
- Los Angeles County Natural History Museum
The LACM collection of amphibians and reptiles contains ca 143,000 catalogued specimens from around the globe. Its special strengths include the southwestern U.S., Mexico, Honduras, Colombia, Galapagos Islands, eastern and southern Africa, and Australia. It contains material formerly in the collections of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), University of Southern California (USC & AHF), and California State University, Long Beach (CSULB). In addition to specimens preserved in ethyl alcohol, there are photographic slides, and a large collection of herpetological reprints.
http://www.lam.mus.ca.us/research/herpetology/index.htmlHerpetology Faculty/Staff:
Unknown. Contact Info:
Curator,
Department of Herpetology
Los Angeles County Natural History Museum
900 Exposition Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90007
(213) 763-3466
- Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science
Founded in 1860 Louisiana State University with more than 30,000 students is the states flagship institution and is one of only 25 universities in the United States holding both land-grant and sea-grant status. The Museum of Natural Science at Louisiana State University is one of the largest natural history museums in the United States, with holdings of over 2.5 million specimens. In addition, the museum holds one of the world’s largest frozen tissue collections. As the only comprehensive research museum in the south-central United States, the LSU Museum of Natural Science fulfills a variety of scientific and educational roles, including generation of new knowledge through scholarly research based primarily on natural history collections, collection and preservation of research specimens as a resource for study of the earth's natural history, education of graduate and undergraduate students, education of the public by means of exhibits and lecture programs, and assistance to local citizens, wildlife officials, and forensic specialists through identification and consultation services.
http://www.lsu.edu/lsumnsHerpetology Faculty/Staff:
Christopher Austin (curator). Contact Info:
Christopher Austin, ccaustin@lsu.edu
Museum of Natural Science
119 Foster Hall
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803-3216
- Milwaukee Public Museum
MPM has an active research program in the areas of Paleontology, Geology, Anthropology, Archeology, Invertebrate Zoology, Vertebrate Zoology, Botany, and History. The research staff is very active with exciting projects at MPM, and with field work and publications. The MPM collections number about 4.5 million specimens and objects. Many visitors do not realize that a very small percentage of MPM collections (only about 2%) are on exhibit at any one time. The rest may be used in future exhibits, but most are preserved for study by researchers from all over the world. Preservation and care of these unique and important collections is the museum's primary mission.
http://www.mpm.edu/collect/rvert.htmlHerpetology Faculty/Staff:
Robert W. Henderson. Contact Info:
Robert W. Henderson, rh@mpm.edu
Milwaukee Public Museum
Vertebrate Zoology Section
800 West Wells Street
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53233
(414) 278-6152
- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California
Founded in 1908 by a gift to the University of California from Miss Annie Montague Alexander, the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology is a center for research on, conservation of, and education in terrestrial vertebrates. Our collections of amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals are among the largest in the United States and our University setting has made the Museum one of the premier centers for the education of undergraduate and graduate students in vertebrate biology throughout our 90-year history. Under the successive leadership of eminent naturalists and evolutionary biologists, starting with Joseph Grinnell, the Museum's program has focused continually on evolutionary biology from the perspective of ecology, behavior, morphology, population biology, and genetics.
http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/mvz/Herpetology Faculty/Staff:
Tyrone Hayes, Meredith Mahoney, Jimmy A. McGuire, Craig Moritz, Theodore Papenfuss, Robert C. Stebbins (emeritus), David Wake, Marvalee Wake. Contact Info:
Craig Moritz, cmoritz@socrates.berkeley.edu
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
University of California
3101 Valley Life Sciences Building
Berkeley, California 94720-3160
(510) 643-7711
- Museum of Zoology, The University of Michigan
The research collection is worldwide in scope and presently, (as of annual report 2002-03) contain 230000 catalogued lots representing 420,099 individual specimens (1,061 genera and 5,222 species) of which 13,176 are skeletons This includes 462 Primary Type specimens (representing 415 taxa) and 5,330 Paratypes (representing 788 taxa). The average growth over the last ten years has been nearly 4000 specimens per year. The auxiliary research collections contain 2,145 radiographs, 7,288 kodachrome slides, and 6,015 frozen tissue samples.
http://www.ummz.umich.edu/herps/index.htmlHerpetology Faculty/Staff:
Ronald A. Nussbaum (Curator), Greg Schneider (Collections Coordinator). Contact Info:
Ronald A. Nussbaum, nuss@umich.edu
Division of Reptiles and Amphibians
Museum of Zoology
1109 Geddes Avenue
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1079
734-764-0476
- National Museum of Natural History
The Division of Amphibians and Reptiles is devoted to herpetology, the scientific study of amphibians and reptiles, and to building and maintaining preserved collections of those animals, which are used in research by the staff of the Division as well as herpetologists throughout the world. Researchers in the Division of Amphibians and Reptiles specialize in systematic herpetology, the branch of the science that attempts to determine what are the species of amphibians and reptiles and how those species are related to one another as parts of larger taxonomic groups. The National Collection of Amphibians and Reptiles is among the largest and most important herpetological collections in the world, consisting of more than one-half million specimens and many thousands of type specimens, which serve a critical function concerning the scientific names of amphibians and reptiles.
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/vert/reptiles/Herpetology Faculty/Staff:
George R. Zug (curator in charge), W. Ronald Heyer (curator), Kevin de Queiroz (curator). Contact Info:
George Zug, zug.george@nmnh.si.edu
Division of Amphibians and Reptiles
National Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, D. C. 20560
202-357-2778
- Natural History Museum, The University of Kansas
The Natural History Museum at KU is recognized internationally for its extensive collections, excellent faculty-curators, and outstanding graduate programs. The museum collections include nearly one million specimens of vertebrates, an estimated one million invertebrate fossils (not including microfossils), and 3.2 million insects, plus collections of other invertebrates, and an herbarium. Vertebrate collections and most associated curators are housed in Dyche Hall.
http://www.nhm.ku.edu/herpetology/Herpetology Faculty/Staff:
Rafe Brown (curator in charge), Linda Trueb (curator), Andrew Campbell (collection manager), Joseph T. Collins (emeritus), and William E. Duellman (emeritus). Contact Info:
Rafe Brown, rafe@ku.edu
Natural History Museum
Dyche Hall
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas 66045-2454
(785) 864-4301
- Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University
The Peabody's herpetological collection consists of approximately 18,000 specimens of amphibians and reptiles. The collection includes over 300 amphibian taxa and over 1300 reptilian taxa. The majority of the collection is wet (in alcohol), and there are approximately 1,000 osteological specimens. A total of 96 type specimens representing 8 taxa are represented. Although the collections are worldwide in scope, the emphasis has historically been on the herpetofauna of North America, Africa and Asia. The majority of specimens are from the United States, with most of those being from Connecticut and Florida.
http://www.peabody.yale.edu/collections/vz/her.htmlHerpetology Faculty/Staff:
Jacques Gauthier, Elisabeth Vrba, David Skelly, Kristof Zyskowski, Gregory Watkins-Colwell, Theodora Pinou, James D. Lazell, Anton Leenders, George Whitney, Richard Prum & Adalgisa Caccone. Contact Info:
Jacques Gauthier, jacques.gauthier@yale.edu
Peabody Museum of Natural History
Yale University
170 Whitney Avenue, P. O. Box 208118
New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8118
(203) 432-3150
- Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences
Many specimens at the Academy were collected and described by the eminent scientists of the time. Much of the personal collection of the great 19th century herpetologist, Edward D. Cope is preserved here, (over 3000 specimens). This material was the basis for several major works on snake classification.
http://www.acnatsci.org/biodiv/index.html?herpetologyHerpetology Faculty/Staff:
Unknown. Contact Info:
Curator of Herpetology,
Department of Herpetology
1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103
(215) 299-1000
- Royal Ontario Museum
http://www.rom.on.ca/Herpetology Faculty/Staff:
Robert W. Murphy (Sr. Curator), Ross D. MacCulloch (Assistant Curator), Amy Lathrop (technician). Contact Info:
Robert Murphy, Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, drbob@zoo.utoronto.ca
Royal Ontario Museum
100 Queen's Park
Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C6 Canada
(416) 586-8099
- San Diego Natural History Museum
The Department of Herpetology focuses on the study of amphibians and reptiles from the Museum's region. The great diversity found in the region is preserved for scientific reference and research in the form of alcohol-preserved and skeletal specimens. The herpetology collection holds over 67,000 cataloged individuals dating back to the 1890s. Over 57% of the collection comes from California and Baja California, making it one of the largest resources for this area. The collection is also well represented with specimens from throughout the Southwest, Mexico, and islands worldwide. The type collection includes 62 primary and 718 secondary types. All cataloged specimens are computer databased which allows for any combination of taxonomic and geographic records to be searched.
http://www.sdnhm.org/research/herpetology/index.htmlHerpetology Faculty/Staff:
Bradford Hollingsworth (curator). Contact Info:
Bradford Hollingsworth, bhollingsworth@sdnhm.org
Department of Herpetology
San Diego Natural History Museum
P. O. Box 121390
San Diego, California 92112-1390
(619) 232-3821 ext. 277
- Southeastern Louisiana University Vertebrate Museum
We are currently expanding our holdings of amphibians and reptiles. The majority of the collection is comprised of specimens from the southern United States; however, specimens from western United States and the West Indies are also present.
http://www2.selu.edu/orgs/vertebratemuseum/Herpetology Faculty/Staff:
Dr. Brian I. Crother, Dr. David Sever, Dr. Clifford Fontenot, . Contact Info:
Dr. Kyle Piller, kyle.piller@selu.edu
Department of Biology
Southeastern Lousisiana University
Hammond, Louisiana
985-549-2191
- Sternberg Museum of Natural History
A rapidly growing collection (currently 15,000+ specimens). The collections are predominantly from the great plains, with other significant holdings from the southeastern and southwestern United States.
http://www.fhsu.edu/sternbergHerpetology Faculty/Staff:
Travis W. Taggart, Curtis J. Schmidt, William Stark, Joesph T. Collins, Eugene Fleharty. Contact Info:
Travis W. Taggart, ttaggart@fhsu.edu
Herpetology Division
3000 Sternberg Drive
Hays, Kansas 67601
785-650-2445
- Texas Memorial Museum
The Herpetology Division and its collection of amphibians and reptiles is one of the research units of the Texas Natural History Collections in the Texas Memorial Museum at the University of Texas at Austin. The collection began as a nucleus of research and teaching materials assembled by W. Frank Blair and his students in the Zoology Department; these were transferred to the Museum in 1950's. The holdings consist of about 61,000 catalogued specimens, which are used for research by faculty, staff and students at the University, as well as by qualified researchers throughout the world. The collection is also used for teaching courses (e.g., Vertebrate Natural History, Comparative Anatomy, and Herpetology) in the School of Biological Sciences.
http://www.utexas.edu/depts/tnhc/herps/Herpetology Faculty/Staff:
David Cannatella, Curator. Contact Info:
David Cannatella, catfish@mail.utexas.edu
Herpetology Division
Texas Memorial Museum
University of Texas
Austin, Texas 78712
(512) 471-5302
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