Ignacio J. De la Riva

Ignacio José De la Riva de la Viña (born 8 January 1960) is a Spanish herpetologist. His research focuses on the neotropical herpetofauna.

Biography In 1986, De la Riva received his master's degree from the Complutense University of Madrid. From June 1986 to December 1987, he was a fellow of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and later worked at the Estación Biológica de Doñana cataloguing its herpetological collection. From January 1988 to August 1990, he held a fellowship from the Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana, through the Asociación de Amigos de Doñana, to carry out his doctoral research in Bolivia. From April 1991 to December 1992, he had a fellowship at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

In 1993, he obtained his doctorate at the Complutense University of Madrid with the dissertation Ecología de una comunidad neotropical de anfibios durante la estación lluviosa under the supervision of Javier Castroviejo and Luis Felipe López-Jurado. From May to December 1993, he worked for the Belgian company Agreco within the ECOFAC program funded by the European Economic Community, serving as a forest ecologist to assess biodiversity in Monte Alén National Park, Equatorial Guinea.

From April 1994 to April 1996, he conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Kansas Natural History Museum. In May–June 1995, he participated in a survey of amphibians and reptiles in Coiba National Park, Panama, under the direction of Santiago Castroviejo. Since May 1996, De la Riva has been a senior researcher in the Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in Madrid.

His research interests include taxonomy, systematics, phylogeny, biogeography, and the ecology of reptiles and amphibians, particularly tropical frogs from Latin America. He has conducted continuous fieldwork in the Neotropics since 1987, focusing mainly on Andean and Amazonian frogs of Bolivia and southern Peru. He also works on Bolivian lizards of the genus Liolaemus, amphibian conservation, and the impacts of chytridiomycosis on Bolivian species. In addition, he collaborates internationally on studies examining the effects of climate change on lizard populations worldwide.

Among his best-known discoveries is the Sehuencas water frog (Telmatobius yuracare), a Bolivian species thought to be represented by a single surviving male ("Romeo") from 2008 until five additional individuals were rediscovered in 2019.

Species described Ignacio De la Riva has been involved in the description of the following species:

Atelopus loettersi De la Riva, Castroviejo-Fisher, Chaparro, Boistel, Padial, 2011 Boana gladiator (Köhler, Koscinski, Padial, Chaparro, Handford, Lougheed, De la Riva, 2010) Boana palaestes (Duellman, De la Riva, Wild, 1997) Boophis arcanus Glaw, Köhler, De la Riva, Vieites, Vences, 2010 Boophis entingae Glaw, Köhler, De la Riva, Vieites, Vences, 2010 Boophis haingana Glaw, Köhler, De la Riva, Vieites, Vences, 2010 Boophis luciae Glaw, Köhler, De la Riva, Vieites, Vences, 2010 Boophis miadana Glaw, Köhler, De la Riva, Vieites, Vences, 2010 Boophis piperatus Glaw, Köhler, De la Riva, Vieites, Vences, 2010 Boophis praedictus Glaw, Köhler, De la Riva, Vieites, Vences, 2010 Boophis roseipalmatus Glaw, Köhler, De la Riva, Vieites, Vences, 2010 Boophis sandrae Glaw, Köhler, De la Riva, Vieites, Vences, 2010 Boophis spinophis Glaw, Köhler, De la Riva, Vieites, Vences, 2010 Bryophryne bakersfield Chaparro, Padial, Gutiérrez, De la Riva, 2015 Bryophryne bustamantei (Chaparro, De la Riva, Padial, Ochoa, Lehr, 2007) Bryophryne quellokunka De la Riva, Chaparro, Castroviejo-Fisher, Padial, 2017 Bryophryne tocra De la Riva, Chaparro, Castroviejo-Fisher, Padial, 2017 Bryophryne wilakunka De la Riva, Chaparro, Castroviejo-Fisher, Padial, 2017 Gastrotheca antoniiochoai (De la Riva & Chaparro, 2005) Gephyromantis runewsweeki Vences and De la Riva, 2007 Hyalinobatrachium carlesvilai Castroviejo-Fisher, Padial, Chaparro, Aguayo-Vedia, De la Riva, 2009 Lynchius oblitus Motta, Chaparro, Pombal, Guayasamin, De la Riva, Padial, 2016 Lynchius tabaconas Motta, Chaparro, Pombal, Guayasamin, De la Riva, Padial, 2016 Microkayla ankohuma (Padial & De la Riva, 2007) Microkayla chacaltaya (De la Riva, Padial, Cortéz, 2007) Microkayla chapi De la Riva, Chaparro, Castroviejo-Fisher, Padial, 2017 Microkayla chaupi (De la Riva & Aparicio, 2016) Microkayla chilina De la Riva, Chaparro, Castroviejo-Fisher, Padial, 2017 Microkayla colla (De la Riva, Aparicio, Soto, Ríos, 2016) Microkayla condoriri (De la Riva, Aguayo, Padial, 2007) Microkayla guillei (De la Riva, 2007) Microkayla harveyi (Muñoz, Aguayo, De la Riva, 2007) Microkayla huayna De la Riva, F. Cortez, Burrowes, 2017 Microkayla iani (De la Riva, Reichle, Cortéz, 2007) Microkayla illampu (De la Riva, Reichle, Padial, 2007) Microkayla illimani (De la Riva & Padial, 2007) Microkayla kallawaya (De la Riva & Martínez-Solano, 2007) Microkayla katantika (De la Riva & Martínez-Solano, 2007) Microkayla kempffi (De la Riva, 1992) Microkayla melanocheira (De la Riva, Ríos, Aparicio, 2016) Microkayla quimsacruzis (De la Riva, Reichle, Bosch, 2007) Microkayla saltator (De la Riva, Reichle, Bosch, 2007) Microkayla teqta (De la Riva & Burrowes, 2014) Nannophryne apolobambica (De la Riva, Ríos, Aparicio, 2005) Noblella carrascoicola (De la Riva & Köhler, 1998) Oreobates amarakaeri Padial, Chaparro, Castroviejo-Fisher, Guayasamin, Lehr, Delgado, Vaira, Teixeira, Aguayo-Vedia, De la Riva, 2012 Oreobates gemcare Padial, Chaparro, Castroviejo-Fisher, Guayasamin, Lehr, Delgado, Vaira, Teixeira, Aguayo-Vedia, De la Riva, 2012 Oreobates ibischi (Reichle, Lötters, De la Riva, 2001) Oreobates lehri (Padial, Chaparro, De la Riva, 2007) Oreobates machiguenga Padial, Chaparro, Castroviejo-Fisher, Guayasamin, Lehr, Delgado, Vaira, Teixeira, Aguayo-Vedia, De la Riva, 2012 Oreobates madidi (Padial, Gonzales-Álvarez, De la Riva, 2005) Oreobates sanderi (Padial, Reichle, De la Riva, 2005) Phrynopus mariellaleo Venegas, Barboza, De la Riva, Padial, 2018 Phrynopus miroslawae Chaparro, Padial, De la Riva, 2008 Phyllomedusa camba De la Riva, 1999 Phyllomedusa chaparroi Castroviejo-Fisher, Köhler, De la Riva, Padial, 2017 Pristimantis koehleri Padial & De la Riva, 2009 Pristimantis reichlei Padial & De la Riva, 2009 Proctoporus carabaya Padial, Chaparro, Castroviejo-Fisher & De La Riva, 2013 Proctoporus iridescens Padial, Chaparro, Castroviejo-Fisher & De La Riva, 2013 Proctoporus kiziriani Padial, Chaparro, Castroviejo-Fisher & De La Riva, 2013 Psychrophrynella usurpator De la Riva, Chaparro, Padial, 2008 Rhinella tacana (Padial, Reichle, McDiarmid, De la Riva, 2006) Scinax castroviejoi De la Riva, 1993 Scinax chiquitanus (De la Riva, 1990) Telmatobius edaphonastes De la Riva, 1995 Telmatobius espadai De la Riva, 2005 Telmatobius mantaro Ttito, Landauro, Venegas, De la Riva, Chaparro, 2016 Telmatobius mendelsoni De la Riva, Trueb, Duellman, 2012 Telmatobius sibiricus De la Riva & Harvey, 2003 Telmatobius timens De la Riva, Aparicio, Ríos, 2005 Telmatobius yuracare De la Riva, 1994 Yunganastes pluvicanorus (De la Riva & Lynch, 1997)

Eponyms In 2001, Jörn Köhler and Stefan Lötters named the frog species Dendropsophus delarivai in his honor.