Mark D Scherz Author

Franco Andreone has been interested in amphibians in Madagascar for about thirty years and has launched the ACSAM Initiative (“A Conservation Strategy for the Amphibian of Madagascar”) as cochair of the IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group for Madagascar. Angelica Crottini is a researcher at the CIBIO-InBIO Research Center at the University of Porto. She is passionate about systematics, taxonomy, biogeography, and the conservation of frogs. Gonçalo M. Rosa is a researcher at the Zoological Society of London and works on different aspects of amphibian and reptile conservation. In this work, he integrates different approaches of in situ and ex situ conservation initiatives and public awareness. Andolalao Rakotoarison is an associate researcher at the Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany, and the Department of Animal Biodiversity at the University of Antananarivo. She focuses on the taxonomy and evolution of frogs. Mark D. Scherz is a doctoral researcher at the Zoologische Staatssammlung München. He works on all the amphibians and reptiles of Madagascar, especially on their taxonomy and evolution, but also their ecology and conservation. Achille P. Raselimanana is professor in the Department of Animal Biodiversity at the University of Antananarivo. He works mainly on amphibians and reptiles of Madagascar.