# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-g-zweifel
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:58:24.563Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-g-zweifel"
name: "Richard G. Zweifel"
slug: "richard-g-zweifel"
description: "Richard George Zweifel was an American herpetologist, who classified several species in the American Southwest and in Australia, including the rattling frog. Zweifel contributed immensely to the documentation of the nowadays Aspidoscelis costatus species. Out of the eight costata subspecies, Dr. Zweifel reported and named five of them. Zweifel worked at the American Museum of Natural History from 1954 to 1989, and was Herpetology Department Chairman from 1968 to 1980."
tagline: "U.S. herpetologist (1925-2019)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1926-11-05"
deathDate: "2019-11-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.69
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.20288
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Річард Джордж Звейфел"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%AC%D9%89_%D8%B2%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "ريتشارد جى زويفيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard G. Zweifel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_G._Zweifel"
    title: "Richard G. Zweifel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_George_Zweifel"
    title: "Richard George Zweifel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A6%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%84%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B6"
    title: "Цвайфель, Ричард Джордж"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_George_Zweifel"
    title: "Richard George Zweifel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_G._Zweifel"
    title: "Richard G. Zweifel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3430791"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump