Background
He was born in Newark, New Jersey on August 16, 1930, and grew up in the nearby town of Belleville.
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James Donald
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He attended the Rutgers University–Newark College of Arts and Sciences and earned a Bachelor of Arts in zoology in 1954.
Career
From 1954 to 1960 he was a graduate student at University of California Berkeley, working under Robert C. Stebbins. Anderson returned to Rutgers University–Newark as a faculty member in 1960, and died from injuries sustained in a car accident on November 20, 1976. The Anderson"s salamander (Ambystoma andersoni) is named after him.
He published 150 peer-reviewed papers.
His two most cited papers are:
"A Comparison of the Food Habits of Ambystoma macrodactylum sigillatum, Ambystoma macrodactylum croceum, and Ambystoma tigrinum californiense". Herpetologica 24 (4) (December, 1968): 273–284.
(cited 55 times according to Google Scholar);
"The Life History of the Mexican Salamander Ambystoma ordinarium Taylor". (with Richard Doctorate Worthington).
Herpetologica 27 (2) (June, 1971): 165–176.
(cited 43 times according to Google Scholar).
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Nationality
American