Yehudah L. Werner
Yehudah Leopold Werner ( * 1931 in Munich) is an Israeli herpetologist and professor emeritus at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem ( Department of Evolution, Systematics and Ecology ).
His parents and he had to flee in 1935 from Nazi Germany to the British Mandate of Palestine. He became a pupil of Georg Haas (1905-1981), a herpetologist and paleontologist Austrian origin who taught in Jerusalem. In his long scientific career, Werner has published over 400 works, including on the biology of geckos and on the zoogeography and the protection of Middle Eastern reptiles and amphibians.
In addition, Werner described a number of species of amphibians and Reptilientaxa first time or again for science (alone or with co-authors ):
- Hyla heinzsteinitzi Grach, Plesser & Werner, 2007 (this type is a synonym of the apparently imported to Israel Hyla japonica, see Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 49: 1019-1024 ).
- Acanthodactylus ahmaddisii Werner, 2004 [ Frans a finger - lizard ( Eremiainae ) ]
- Asaccus nasrullahi Werner, 2006 [ a gecko ]
- Cerastes cerastes Werner, Sivan, Kushnir & Motro 1999
- Cerastes cerastes hoofieni Werner & Sivan, 1999
- Cerastes gasperettii Werner, 1987
- Cerastes gasperettii Werner, Le Verdier, Rosenman & Sivan, 1991
- Cerastes gasperettii mendelssohni Werner & Sivan, 1999
- Eirenis coronella ibrahimi Sivan & Werner, 2003
- Eirenis coronelloides Sivan & Werner, 2003
- Laudakia stellio Salehi Werner, 2006
- Mesalina bahaeldini Segoli, Cohen & Werner, 2002 [ a Desert Racer ( Eremiainae ) ]
- Micrelaps tchernovi Werner, Babocsay, Carmely & Thuna, 2006 [ a Erdviper ( Atractaspididae ) ]
- Ptyodactylus hasselquistii krameri Werner, 1995 [ a gecko ]
Note: Herpetological first descriptions with the author's name " Werner" from the years 1893-1938 are from the Austrian zoologist Franz Werner †.