Richard Lehtinen

Earlier this year, my friend Yeong-Choy Kam and I published a paper based on an experiment I conducted in his lab over ten years ago in Taiwan. Time flies! Previously, there had been anecdotal reports of […]

Salamander of the Month – the axolotl

The axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) commonly referred to as the “Mexican walking fish” is featured as this month’s salamander of the month. This amphibian is interes […]

Recently, several colleagues and I published a new taxonomic paper entitled “Cryptic multicolored lizards in the Polychrus marmoratus Group (Squamata: Sauria: Polychrotidae) and the status of Leiolepis auduboni H […]

Salamander of the Month – the Olm (Proteus anguinus)

                                                                             © 2015 Dr. Joachim Nerz

The olm is a cave specialized salamander that lives […]

Earlier in November, our last Salamander Squad outing nabbed four different species (red-backed, ravine, slimy and northern two-lined salamanders) at Wooster Memorial Park. We had three outings this fall and […]

The Wooster Salamander Squad recently had its second outing of the fall on Oct. 8th. Many secretive salamanders were found by young and old! Our next outing (and last of the fall) will be on Saturday November 5th […]

In May of this year, I took three College of Wooster undergraduates to the Osa Peninsula of Costa Rica to study frogs, snakes and lizards. April Arquilla (’17) did a field experiment on coral snake mimicry, Ben […]

The very first group of intrepid salamander biologists went out to Wooster Memorial Park on Saturday, September 17th. It rained much of the early morning hours but then let up as we went out into the woods. The […]

I was happy to be able to attend the Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists this year, which met recently in New Orleans. With co-author Erin Hodson (’14) I gave a talk entitled “Decline of an […]

Late last year, Jacob Beckstead (’16) and I got some squirrel nest boxes set up on the College of Wooster campus. These nest boxes are equipped with web cams that allow us to peak in on the squirrels activities […]

My student Jake Beckstead (’16) recently set up three squirrel nest boxes with web cams that are now up on three trees on the College of Wooster campus (near Kauke, Scovel and Severance Halls). It took about 3 or […]

Recently, my students and I had a paper accepted to be published in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Herpetology. This paper “Re-assessing the conservation status of an island endemic frog”, was based on thr […]

Hola from La Selva Biological Station in Costa Rica!

I am here with three Wooster students conducting research on glass frogs. The station is an excellent place to conduct biological research in the lowland […]

About ten years ago, I started a project with a few students to assess to conservation status of Blanchard’s cricket frog (Acris blanchardi) in the state of Ohio. The last large scale assessment of the d […]

At the beginning of December, I had the opportunity to attend a conference being held in Cartagena, Colombia. I was asked by the organizers of a special symposium entitled “Parental Care in Anurans” to give a tal […]

About a month ago, I returned from my eighth research trip to the lovely and interesting islands of Trinidad and Tobago. In addition to my own work on frog ecology, evolution, behavior and conservation, I had four […]

In May, I spent three days in lovely Tulsa, Oklahoma attending the 6th Conference on the Biology of Plethodontid Salamanders (http://plethodontids2014.weebly.com). These salamanders are the most diverse group of […]

This week a new paper appeared in the journal Ethology based on work that my students and I have been conducting on the Tobago glass frog (Hyalinobatrachium orientale). In this paper, Sara Green (current Wooster […]

In December 2013, the Ohio Biological Survey published a massive tome on the amphibians of Ohio. This volume (899 pages!) covers all 40 species of frogs and salamanders to be found in the state. There are also […]