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Edwin Nicholas Arnold

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Edwin Nicholas "Nick" Arnold (b. 1940), is a British herpetologist and former Curator of Herpetology at the Natural History Museum, London. Arnold made seminal contributions to the herpetology of Europe and North Africa, especially on geckos and lizards of the family Lacertidae. He discovered and described 36 species and 4 subspecies of reptiles,[1] and wrote A Field Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Britain and Europe, which appeared over multiple editions.[2]

Honors

At least four species of reptiles have been named in Arnold's honor:[3][4]

Publications

  • Arnold EN (1973). "Relationships of the Palearctic lizards assigned to the genera Lacerta, Algyroides and Psammodromus (Reptilia: Lacertidae)". Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology 25: 289-366.
  • Arnold EN (2009). "Relationships, evolution and biogeography of Semaphore geckos, Pristurus (Squamata, Sphaerodactylidae) based on morphology". Zootaxa 2060: 1-21.
  • Arnold EN, Arribas O, Carranza S (2007). "Systematics of the Palearctic and Oriental lizard tribe Lacertini (Squamata: Lacertidae: Lacertinae), with decriptions of eight new genera". Zootaxa 1430: 1-86.
  • Arnold EN, Burton JA (1978). A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Britain and Europe. (Illustrated by D. W. Ovenden). London: Collins. 272 pp. + Plates 1-40. ISBN 0-00-219318-3.

References

  1. ^ "Reptile species described by E. N. Arnold". Reptile Database. 16 December 2019. Retrieved 16 December 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ Lambert, M. R. K. (November 1978). "[A review of ] A Field Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Britain and Europe, by E.N. Arnold and J.A. Burton, illustrated by D.W. Ovenden. Collins, £4.95". Oryx. 14 (4): 428–429. doi:10.1017/S0030605300016082. ISSN 1365-3008.
  3. ^ "THE REPTILE DATABASE". www.reptile-database.org. Retrieved 2019-12-16.
  4. ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Arnold, E. N.", p. 11).



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