Rose Marie Antoinette Blommers-Schlösser

Rose Marie Antoinette Blommers-Schlösser
Born1944 (age 80–81)
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Alma materUniversity of Amsterdam
Scientific career
FieldsHerpetology, entomology
Thesis Biosystematics of Malagasy frogs  (1980)

Rose Marie Antoinette Blommers-Schlösser (Eindhoven, 1944) is a Dutch herpetologist and entomologist.[1][2]

Life and research

Blommers-Schlösser conducted her PhD at the University of Amsterdam on the systematics of the frogs of Madagascar.[2] Together with numerous other herpetologists, especially Charles P. Blanc, she described numerous species of frogs from Madagascar, including Mantidactylus spiniferus, Boophis reticulatus, Spinomantis guibei, and Guibemantis punctatus,[3] and contributed extensively to the knowledge of these and other species.[3][4][5][6][7] She contributed particularly significantly to understanding of the reproductive behaviour of numerous microhylids from Madagascar,[8] and supraspecific taxonomy of the Mantellidae.[5][6][7] She also contributed to the literature on the karyotypes of phytoseiid mites of Madagascar in 1975.[1][9]

Matronyms

The frog genus Blommersia, and the species Blommersia blommersae and Boophis blommersae, were named in honour of Blommers-Schlösser,[1] in recognition of her contributions to the herpetology of Madagascar.

References

  1. ^ a b c Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael & Grayson, Michael (2013). The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians. Pelagic Publishing. p. 25. ISBN 978-1-907807-42-8.
  2. ^ a b "R.M.A. Blommers - Schlösser". Album Academicum. University of Amsterdam. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
  3. ^ a b Blommers-Schlösser, Rose M. A.; Blanc, Charles P. (1991). "Amphibiens (première partie)". Faune de Madagascar (in French). 75 (1): 1–384..
  4. ^ Blommers-Schlösser, Rose M. A.; Blanc, Charles P. (1993). "Amphibiens (deuxième partie)". Faune de Madagascar (in French). 75 (2): 385–530.
  5. ^ a b Blommers-Schlösser, Rose M. A. (1979). "Biosystematics of the Malagasy frogs II. The genus Boophis (Rhacophoridae)". Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde. 49 (2): 261–312. doi:10.1163/26660644-04902008.
  6. ^ a b Blommers-Schlösser, Rose M. A. (1979). "Biosystematics of the Malagasy frogs. I. Mantellinae (Ranidae)". Beaufortia. 29 (352): 1–77.
  7. ^ a b Blommers-Schlösser, Rose M. A. (1993). "Systematic relationships of the Mantellinae Laurent 1946 (Anura Ranoidea)". Ethology Ecology & Evolution. 5 (2): 199–218. Bibcode:1993EtEcE...5..199B. doi:10.1080/08927014.1993.9523105.
  8. ^ Blommers-Schlösser, Rose M. A. (1975). "Observations on the larval development of some Malagasy frogs, with notes on their ecology and biology (Anura: Dyscophinae, Scaphiophryninae, and Cophylinae)". Beaufortia. 24: 7–26.
  9. ^ Blommers-Schlösser, Rose M. A.; Blommers, L. (1975). "Karyotypes of eight species of phytoseiid mites (Acarina: Mesostigmata) from Madagascar". Genetica. 45 (2): 145–148. doi:10.1007/BF01517191. S2CID 44404215.