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Jay Mathers Savage
American herpetologist · United States · On the map · Scientists · Lived 1928 to 2025 · aged 97
Jay Mathers Savage was an American herpetologist known for his research on reptiles and amphibians of Central America. He was a past president of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, the Society of Systematic Biologists, and the Southern California Academy of Sciences.
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He received his bachelor's (1950), master's (1954), and doctoral (1955) degrees from Stanford University. He produced around 200 publications, including the books Evolution and The Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica: A Herpetofauna between Two Continents, between Two Sea. He was an emeritus professor at the University of Miami and adjunct professor at San Diego State University.
