Albert Schwartz

Albert Schwartz (September 13, 1923 – October 18, 1992) was an American zoologist who worked extensively with the herpetofauna of Florida and the West Indies, and later with butterflies. One magazine article once dubbed him as one of the "Kings of West Indian Anole Taxonomy".

Career Schwartz obtained his PhD from the University of Michigan in mammalogy in 1952. Already at that time, he had a keen interest in amphibians and reptiles, as well as in warmer climates. and also an associate of the Florida Museum of Natural History, the National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution), and the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. A number of taxa are named in his honor, including the following: Anolis schwartzi – may be a subspecies of Anolis wattsi Chilabothrus chrysogaster schwartzi Eleutherodactylus schwartzi – Schwartz's robber frog, Virgin Islands coqui Schwartzius – a subgenus of Eleutherodactylus Sphaerodactylus schwartzi – Guantanamo collared sphaero Tarentola albertschwartzi – a gecko Tropidophis schwartzi – a dwarf boa Typhlops schwartzi – Schwartz's worm snake Artibeus schwartzi – Schwartz's fruit-eating bat

Works Schwartz A, Thomas R (1975). A Check-list of West Indian Amphibians and Reptiles. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication No. 1. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Carnegie Museum of Natural History. 216 pp. Schwartz A, Henderson RW (1991). Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies: Descriptions, Distributions, and Natural History. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida. .