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Schwartz, Albert was born on September 13, 1923 in Cincinnati. Son of Albert and Louise (Duerr) Schwartz.
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This meticulous book summarizes all available information on West Indian herpetofauna. Using data from more than 6,000 pages of field notes and 1,000 literature sources, Schwartz and Henderson present a detailed account of every known reptile and amphibian species existing on the numerous islands of the West Indies. For each (almost 600), they offer a complete synopsis, including description, holotype, source of illustrations, and range map. A section on natural history summarizes what is known about the habitat, microhabitat, economic bearing, food habits, and reproduction of each animal, and in some cases it shows how these traits change from island to island. In opening remarks, the authors plead eloquently for awareness of the rampant environmental degradation taking place on the islands. For every herpetologist, biologist, ecologist, or biogeographer with an interest in the Antillean biota, Amphibians and Reptiles will become the source from which all future research proceeds.
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"A wealth of field data and ecological information.... Schwartz knows the island and its butterflies better than anyone else alive…. The scholarship is beyond reproach."--Lee D. Miller, curator, Allyn Museum of Entomology, Florida Museum of Natural History The butterflies of the Greater Antilles island of Hispaniola have in general been overlooked since Hall’s 1925 summary, a situation Albert Schwartz remedies with this thoroughgoing study. Hispaniola, composed of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, paleogeographically the most interesting of the Antilles, has a topography so ideal for butterflies that nearly two hundred species live there, including sixty endemic species—more than on all the other islands combined. Schwartz’s is the first major attempt to uncover the ecological and biogeographic reasons for this diversity. The book contains detailed information on natural history, ecology, taxonomy, elevational distribution, food plants used by adults, and seasonality, as well as occurrence on satellite islands. Schwartz accompanies his species accounts and analyses with photographs of selected ecologies and detailed distribution maps for each species, making this a reference for the general collector to areas that need further research. His descriptive keys, in Spanish and English, list 212 couplets. Besides its obvious value to lepidopterists, this book will fill a need for students on any aspect of West Indian fauna. Albert Schwartz, a professor emeritus of biology at Miami-Dade Community College, is an adjunct curator at the Florida Museum of Natural History and a research associate at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, the National Museum of Natural History, and the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural in Santo Domingo. He has written and coauthored numerous studies on Caribbean amphibians, reptiles, and Lepidoptera.
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Schwartz, Albert was born on September 13, 1923 in Cincinnati. Son of Albert and Louise (Duerr) Schwartz.
Bachelor of Science, University Cincinnati, 1944. Master of Science, University Miami, 1948. Doctor of Philosophy, University Michigan, 1952.
He worked extensively with the herpetofauna of Florida and the West Indies, and later, with butterflies. He is dubbed as one of the "Kings of West Indian Anole Taxonomy". Already at that time, he had a keen interest in amphibians and reptiles, as well as in warmer climates.
Schwartz spent most of his professional working life at Miami-Dade Community College.
He was also supported by a family trust, which he used to fund his own activities as well as field expeditions by others Starting in 1954, he worked extensively in Cuba, and described numerous frogs as well as three anole species from there.
After the revolution in Cuba, he shifted his attention to Hispaniola, where he again described numerous frog species and five anoles. In the late 1970s, when Schwartz saw the number of new amphibians and reptiles he could describe from the West Indies diminishing, he shifted his attention to butterflies.
Schwartz published 230 papers on West Indian biology.
80 of the amphibian and reptile species he had described were recognized as valid in 1993. He is credited to have described 14% of the entire West Indian herpetofauna. A number of species are named in his honor, including the following: Eleutherodactylus schwartzi — Schwartz"s robber frog, Virgin Islands coqui Schwartzius — subgenus of Eleutherodactylus Anolis wattsi schwartzi — Watts" anole Typhlops schwartzi — Schwartz" worm snake Sphaerodactylus schwartzi — Guantanamo collared sphaero Tarentola albertschwartzi — a gekko Tropidophis schwartzi — a dwarf boa Works 1.
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With United States Army, 1945. Member Lepidoptera Society, Herpetologists League, American Society Ichthyology and Herpetology, Biological Society Washington, Society Study Amphibians and Reptiles.