Arnold G. Kluge

Arnold G. Kluge is professor emeritus of zoology and curator emeritus of amphibians and reptiles at the University of Michigan, Museum of Zoology.

Arnold G. Kluge
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Southern California
Known forExtensive studies in systematics, evolutionary biology, ecology of amphibians and reptiles
AwardsFulbright and Guggenheim Fellowships
Scientific career
FieldsZoology
InstitutionsUniversity of Michigan, Museum of Zoology

Kluge authored over 140 journal articles. He served as past president of the Willi Hennig Society and as editor-in-chief of its journal Cladistics.[1] He served at the University of Michigan from 1965 until his retirement in 2003.[2]

He is known for extensive studies in systematics, evolutionary biology, and ecology of amphibians and reptiles He also advanced the theory and philosophy of phylogenetic inference bringing Popperian falsification into the fold of cladistics.

Amongst the new taxa published by Kluge is Crenadactylus, tiny Australian clawless geckos reclassified as a separate genus with co-author James R. Dixon in 1964.[3] He also described Aprasia pseudopulchella (Flinders Ranges worm-lizard), endemic to South Australia, in 1974.[4][5]

Eponyms

Kluge is honored in the specific names of three species of lizards.[1]

References
  1. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Kluge", p. 143).
  2. "Faculty History Project, Memoir, Arnold G. Kluge, Regents' Proceedings 341". University of Michigan. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
  3. Dixon, James R.; Kluge, Arnold G. (26 March 1964). "A New Gekkonid Lizard Genus from Australia". Copeia. 1964 (1): 174. doi:10.2307/1440848. JSTOR 1440848.
  4. Aprasia pseudopulchella at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
  5. "Aprasia pseudopulchella — Flinders Ranges Worm-lizard". Species Profile and Threats Database. Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Australian Government. 2023. Archived from the original on 25 August 2023. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
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