Edward Frederick Kraus

Edward Frederick "Fred" Kraus (born June 12, 1959) is an American herpetologist.

Biography Kraus earned his Bachelor of Science degree in 1980 from the University of Toledo. In the summer of 1980, he worked as a field biologist at the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. From 1980 to 1986, he was a research and teaching assistant in the Department of Biology at the University of Michigan. In 1987, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan under Arnold G. Kluge with the dissertation An evaluation of the ontogeny polarization criterion in phylogenetic inference: a case study using the salamander genus ambystoma.

Species described Recent discoveries were four snakes in the genus Dendrelaphis in Papua New Guinea in 2025.

Amphibians

Albericus exclamitans (Kraus & Allison, 2005) Albericus murritus (Kraus & Allison, 2009) Albericus sanguinopictus (Kraus & Allison, 2005) Ambystoma barbouri (Kraus & Petranka, 1989) Austrochaperina septentrionalis (Allison & Kraus, 2003) Callulops eremnosphax (Kraus & Allison, 2009) Callulops marmoratus (Kraus & Allison, 2003) Callulops omnistriatus (Kraus & Allison, 2009) Choerophryne longirostris (Kraus & Allison, 2001) Cophixalus bewaniensis (Kraus & Allison, 2000) Cophixalus caverniphilus (Kraus & Allison, 2009) Cophixalus cupricarenus (Kraus & Allison, 2009) Cophixalus desticans (Kraus & Allison, 2009) Cophixalus interruptus (Kraus & Allison, 2009) Cophixalus iovaorum (Kraus & Allison, 2009) Cophixalus kethuk (Kraus & Allison, 2009) Cophixalus linnaeus (Kraus & Allison, 2009) Cophixalus melanops (Kraus & Allison, 2009) Cophixalus phaeobalius (Kraus & Allison, 2009) Cophixalus pulchellus (Kraus & Allison, 2000) Cophixalus sisyphus (Kraus & Allison, 2006) Cophixalus timidus (Kraus & Allison, 2006) Cophixalus tomaiodactylus (Kraus & Allison, 2009) Cophixalus variabilis (Kraus & Allison, 2006) Hylarana waliesa (Kraus & Allison, 2007) Hylophorbus proekes (Kraus & Allison, 2009) Liophryne magnitympanum (Kraus & Allison, 2009) Litoria bibonius (Kraus & Allison, 2004) Litoria eschata (Kraus & Allison, 2009) Litoria flavescens (Kraus & Allison, 2004) Litoria rubrops (Kraus & Allison, 2004) Mantophryne axanthogaster (Kraus & Allison, 2009) Oreophryne anamiatoi (Kraus & Allison, 2009) Oreophryne ezra (Kraus & Allison, 2009) Platymantis browni (Allison & Kraus, 2001) Platymantis bufonulus (Kraus & Allison, 2007) Platymantis caesiops (Kraus & Allison, 2009) Platymantis manus (Kraus & Allison, 2009) Platymantis sulcatus (Kraus & Allison, 2007) Xenorhina adisca (Kraus & Allison, 2003) Xenorhina arboricola (Allison & Kraus, 2000) Xenorhina zweifeli (Kraus & Allison, 2002)

Reptiles

Cyrtodactylus atremus (Kraus & Weijola, 2019) Cyrtodactylus epiroticus (Kraus, 2008) Cyrtodactylus klugei (Kraus, 2008) Cyrtodactylus murua (Kraus & Allison, 2006) Cyrtodactylus robustus (Kraus, 2008) Cyrtodactylus serratus (Kraus, 2007) Cyrtodactylus tripartitus (Kraus, 2008) Emoia beryllion (Kraus, 2018) Gerrhopilus addisoni (Kraus, 2017) Gerrhopilus eurydice (Kraus, 2017) Gerrhopilus flavinotatus (Kraus, 2023) Gerrhopilus hades (Kraus, 2005) Gerrhopilus lestes (Kraus, 2017) Gerrhopilus lorealis (Kraus, 2023) Gerrhopilus papuanorum (Kraus, 2023) Gerrhopilus persephone (Kraus, 2017) Gerrhopilus polyadenus (Kraus, 2023) Gerrhopilus slapcinskyi (Kraus, 2023) Gerrhopilus wallachi (Kraus, 2023) Hypsilurus capreolatus (Kraus & Myers, 2012) Lepidodactylus aignanus (Kraus, 2019) Lepidodactylus dialeukos (Kraus, 2019) Lepidodactylus kwasnickae (Kraus, 2019) Lepidodactylus laticinctus (Kraus, Vahtera, Varpu & Weijola, Valter, 2023) Lepidodactylus makira (Kraus, 2023) Lepidodactylus mitchelli (Kraus, 2019) Lepidodactylus pollostos (Karkkainen, Richards, Kraus, Tjaturadi, Krey & Oliver, 2020) Lepidodactylus sacrolineatus (Kraus & Oliver, 2020) Lepidodactylus zweifeli (Kraus, 2019) Lobulia fortis (Slavenko, Tamar, Tallowin, Kraus, Allison, Carranza & Meiri, 2021) Lobulia huonensis (Slavenko, Tamar, Tallowin, Kraus, Allison, Carranza & Meiri, 2021) Lobulia marmorata (Slavenko, Tamar, Tallowin, Kraus, Allison, Carranza & Meiri, 2021) Lobulia vogelkopensis (Slavenko, Tamar, Tallowin, Kraus, Allison, Carranza & Meiri, 2021) Nactus acutus (Kraus, 2005) Nactus sphaerodactylodes (Kraus, 2005) Ornithuroscincus bengaun (Slavenko, Tamar, Tallowin, Kraus, Allison, Carranza & Meiri, 2021) Ornithuroscincus inornatus (Slavenko, Tamar, Tallowin, Kraus, Allison, Carranza & Meiri, 2021) Ornithuroscincus pterophilus (Slavenko, Tamar, Tallowin, Kraus, Allison, Carranza & Meiri, 2021) Ornithuroscincus sabini (Kraus, 2020) Ornithuroscincus shearmani (Slavenko, Tamar, Tallowin, Kraus, Allison, Carranza & Meiri, 2021) Ornithuroscincus viridis (Slavenko, Tamar, Tallowin, Kraus, Allison, Carranza & Meiri, 2021) Toxicocalamus atratus (Kraus, Kaiser & O’Shea, 2022) Toxicocalamus cratermontanus (Kraus, 2017) Toxicocalamus mattisoni (Kraus, 2020) Toxicocalamus mintoni (Kraus, 2009) Toxicocalamus nigrescens (Kraus, 2017) Toxicocalamus pachysomus (Kraus, 2009) Toxicocalamus spilorhynchus (Kraus, Kaiser & O’Shea, 2022) Toxicocalamus vertebralis (Kraus, Kaiser & O’Shea, 2022) Tropidonophis dolasii (Kraus & Allison, 2004) Varanus bennetti (Weijola, Vahtera, Koch, Schmitz & Kraus, 2020) Varanus louisiadensis (Weijola & Kraus, 2023) Varanus tanimbar (Weijola & Kraus, 2023)

Eponymy In 2020, herpetologist George Robert Zug named the gecko species Nactus fredkrausi from Papua New Guinea in honor of Fred Kraus.