Linda Trueb

Linda Trueb is an American professor of herpetology and systematics biology at the University of Kansas and a senior curator emerita at the university's Biodiversity Institute. She also acts as the associate director for the Institute's Administration and Research department.

Education Trueb completed a bachelor's of science in zoology at the University of Kansas in 1962 and a Ph.D. at the same university in 1968.

Career After establishing her own lab at the University of Kansas post-graduation, Trueb focused on amphibians in the neotropics, taking many fieldwork trips there with her husband to study both amphibians and reptiles. It was noted by Hans-Dieter Sues in a 2009 review of a separate work that the text "remains the best survey of the diversity and biology of extant amphibians." She served as president of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists in 1992

Personal life Trueb married fellow herpetologist William E. Duellman in April 1965 and they had a daughter, Dana, together in 1970. Duellman died in February 2022.

After her continuous academic work in the field, Trueb retired from her position at the KU Department of Ecology and Systematics and Biodiversity Institute. She now serves as a Senior Curator Emerita, focusing on her role as the Associate Director for Administration and Research at the KU Biodiversity Institute.