Enrique La Marca

Francisco Enrique La Marca Gutiérrez (born 11 August 1957) is a Venezuelan herpetologist and tropical ecologist.

Biography He is the son of Vincenzo La Marca Zirini (b. 1926 in Noto, Sicily, Italy) and María Eduvina Gutiérrez. He was a disciple of Hobart M. Smith (University of Colorado Boulder) and John D. Lynch (University of Nebraska–Lincoln).

He has worked in teaching (professor of Biogeography) and in research (Curator of the Collection of Amphibians and Reptiles, Laboratory of Biogeography, School of Geography), at the University of the Andes, in Mérida, Venezuela.

He is a retired full professor at the University of the Andes (ULA), dedicated for more than 40 years to the study of Venezuelan herpetofauna. He is the taxonomic author of species in the class Amphibia (order Anura) and in the class Reptilia (orders Sauria and Serpentes). head of the Department of Physical Geography and acting director of the School of Geography in the Faculty of Forest and Environmental Sciences at ULA. He currently directs the REVA Conservation Center (Rescue of Venezuelan Amphibian Species). He is a member of the Amphibian Specialist Group of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

Honors He has received various recognitions in different programs for research and teaching promotion by Venezuelan institutions such as the Fondo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas (FONACIT) and the University of the Andes, Mérida: Programa de Promoción del Investigador (PPI), Programa de Estímulo al Investigador (PEI), Comisión Nacional para el Beneficio Académico (CONABA), and the Comisión Nacional de Desarrollo de la Educación Superior (CONADES).

Eponymous taxa Mannophryne lamarcai Mijares-Urrutia & Arends, 1999

Taxa described

Anadia pariaensis Anomaloglossus ayarzaguenai Anomaloglossus guanayensis Anomaloglossus murisipanensis Anomaloglossus parimae Anomaloglossus praderioi Anomaloglossus roraima Anomaloglossus tepuyensis Aromobates molinarii Atelopus chrysocorallus Atelopus sorianoi Atelopus tamaense Atractus eriki Atractus meridensis Atractus micheleae Atractus mijaresi Atractus ochrosetrus Atractus tamaensis Liophis dorsocorallinus Mannophryne Mannophryne cordilleriana Mannophryne yustizi Nephelobates Pristimantis colostichos Pristimantis culatensis Pristimantis flabellidiscus Pristimantis jabonensis Pristimantis kareliae Pristimantis pedimontanus Pristimantis rhigophilus Pristimantis riveroi Pristimantis telefericus Pristimantis thyellus Pristimantis vanadise Riolama luridiventris Scinax flavidus Tepuihyla celsae