Antoine Fouquet

Antoine Fouquet (born April 11, 1979) is a French biologist and herpetologist, specializing in the study of Neotropical herpetofauna. Earlier in his career, he also worked on the New Zealand primitive frogs.

Biography Fouquet grew up in western France and developed a fascination with frogs and newts in the ponds around his parents’ home. He obtained the baccalauréat général in 1997. In 2000, he received the technical diploma Brevet de Technicien Supérieur Agricole (BTSA) in conservation and management. In 2002, he earned his bachelor's degree from the Université de Poitiers, after which he traveled to Costa Rica.

During his master’s studies in 2003, he spent three months in French Guiana, where he conducted research on the reproductive biology of Ameerega hahneli in cooperation with the ecology laboratory of the National Museum of Natural History in Brunoy at the Réserve naturelle nationale des Nouragues. That same year, he submitted his master’s thesis Reproductive behaviour, territoriality and vocalisation activity of Epipedobates hahneli (Anura, Dendrobatidae) in French Guiana at the Université de Poitiers and then joined the Institut méditerranéen de biodiversité et d’ecologie marine et continentale (IMBE) of the Université Aix-Marseille, where he worked until 2004 on frog diversity, phylogeography, and systematics using molecular data under the direction of André Gilles. He focused on the species complexes Scinax ruber and Rhinella margaritifera. At the same time, he studied biology, evolution, and population control at the University of Tours under Jérôme Casas, earning the Diplôme d’études approfondies (DEA).

Species described

Amphibians

Adelophryne glandulata Adenomera amicorum Adenomera aurantiaca Adenomera gridipappi Adenomera inopinata Adenomera kayapo Adenomera tapajonica Allobates ripicolus Allobates vicinus Amazophrynella Amazophrynella moisesii Amazophrynella siona Amazophrynella teko Amazophrynella xinguensis Anomaloglossus apiau Anomaloglossus blanci Anomaloglossus dewynteri Anomaloglossus mitaraka Anomaloglossus saramaka Anomaloglossus tepequem Anomaloglossus vacheri Boana courtoisae Boana diabolica Boana eucharis Boana platanera Brasilotyphlus dubium Caligophryne Caligophryne doylei Caligophrynidae Chiasmocleis jacki Cycloramphus organensis Dendropsophus arndti Dendropsophus counani Dendropsophus vraemi Hylophorbus lengguru Hylophorbus maculatus Hylophorbus monophonus Leptodactylus fremitus Neblinaphryne Neblinaphryne mayeri Neblinaphrynidae Pristimantis campinarana Pristimantis crepitaculus Pristimantis espedeus Pristimantis guianensis Rhinella lescurei Rhinella martyi Synapturanus ajuricaba Synapturanus mesomorphus Synapturanus zombie

Reptiles Atractus aboiporu Atractus dapsilis Atractus trefauti Iphisa brunopereira Iphisa dorothy Iphisa munduruku Iphisa pellegrino Iphisa surui Neusticurus arekuna Siagonodon exiguum