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Article: Utah State U. professor names 20 new species
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- February 23, 2001
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Dave Boyle
University Wire
02-23-2001
(The Utah Statesman) (U-WIRE) LOGAN, Utah -- Reptiles or amphibians. Either way, Joe Mendelson is happy. Especially when he gets to name new species of them. "It's a thrill and an honor to name new species," said Mendelson, assistant professor of biology at Utah State University.
"While I mostly work on frogs," he said, "I have named two new species of snakes, one new lizard and two new salamanders."
Last summer Mendelson and colleagues from the United States and Mexico drove nearly 9,000 miles around Mexico conducting surveys of frogs in rain and cloud forests of southern Mexico.
This research was funded by National Geographic and was intended to ...