Edgar Lehr

Edgar Lehr (born 30 June 1969) is a German herpetologist and conservationist. His research focuses on the biogeography of neotropical herpetofauna.

Biography

After completing his civil service in a nursing home, Lehr studied biology from 1990 to 1996 at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, earning his diploma in biology. His thesis, On the intraspecific variability of the Indochinese box turtle Cuora galbinifrons (Testudines: Emydidae) Bourret, 1939, earned him a master's degree in 1996. In 2001, he received a doctorate (Dr. phil. nat.), magna cum laude, in zoology with the dissertation The herpetofauna along the 10th parallel of Peru: species inventory, taxonomy, ecological notes, and biogeographical relationships.

From 2005 to 2006, he worked as a research assistant in the Department of Herpetology at the Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center at the University of Kansas. Since 2007, Lehr has been curator of herpetology at the . In 2008, he earned his habilitation at the University of Koblenz-Landau with the thesis On the taxonomy, morphology, and phylogeny of strabomantid frogs in Peru.

In 2023, Lehr named the Peruvian snake Tachymenoides harrisonfordi in honor of actor Harrison Ford.

Memberships Lehr is a member of the following organizations: American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (ASIH), Association of Zoos & Aquariums (AZA), Česká společnost pro teraristiku a herpetologii v Praze (Czech Society for Terraristics and Herpetology, Prague), IUCN/SSC Amphibian Specialist Group, IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group, BIOPAT, German Zoological Society, German Society for Herpetology and Herpetoculture, Herpetologists’ League (HL), Societas Europaea Herpetologica (SEH), Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles (SSAR), and the Zoological Society for the Conservation of Species and Populations.

Eponyms In 2007, the Peruvian frog species Eleutherodactylus lehri was named in honor of Lehr.

Selected works In addition to more than 60 scientific papers published in journals such as Copeia and Zootaxa, Lehr has contributed to the following publications:

Edgar Lehr: Amphibians and reptiles in Peru: The herpetofauna along the 10th parallel of Peru: species inventory, taxonomy, ecological notes, and biogeographical relationships. Dissertation, Natur- und Tier-Verlag, Naturwissenschaft, Münster, 2002 L. R. Burke, L. S. Ford, E. Lehr, S. Mockford, P. C. H. Pritchard, J. P. O. Rosado, D. M. Senneke, B. L. Stuart: Non-Standard Sources in a Standardized World: Responsible Practice and Ethics of Acquiring Turtle Specimens for Scientific Use. Chelonian Research Monograph 4, pp. 142–146, 2007 Edgar Lehr: The Telmatobius and Batrachophrynus (Anura: Leptodactylidae) species of Peru. In: E. O. Lavilla & I. De La Riva (eds.): Studies on the Andean Frogs of the Genera Telmatobius and Batrachophrynus. Asociación Herpetológica Española, Monografías de Herpetología, 7, pp. 39–64, 2005 William E. Duellman & Edgar Lehr: Terrestrial-Breeding Frogs (Strabomantidae) in Peru. Natur- und Tier-Verlag, 2009