Annemarie Ohler is an Austrian herpetologist and professor who concentrates on the taxonomy of

amphibians Amphibians are four-limbed and ectothermic vertebrates of the class Amphibia. All living amphibians belong to the group Lissamphibia. They inhabit a wide variety of habitats, with most species living within terrestrial, fossorial, arbore ...

. She has 3,602 citations and an h-index of 36.

Life and work

After graduating from the federal higher boarding school in Traunsee Castle, Upper Austria, Ohler studied zoology, botany and biochemistry at the University of Vienna, where she wrote a dissertation in 1987 on the larval development of the pond frog ('' Pelophylax kl. esculentus''), a hybridogenetic hybrid from the complex of forms of water frogs ('' Pelophylax'') and received her Ph.D. During her studies she had a one-year research stay at the

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in Paris, where she studied experimental embryology. In 1988 she obtained the Diplôme d'études approfondies (DEA) from the

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. Since 2008 she has been a professor at the Laboratory of Reptiles and Amphibians at the National Museum of Natural History, France. Ohler is a specialist in the families of the Asian toad frog ( Megophryidae) and the true frog ( Ranidae), especially for species from tropical Asia and Africa. She works internationally with scientists from Southeast Asia and works with international organizations to protect amphibian species. Ohler has published more than a hundred specialist articles. In 2015 she published the children's book ''La vie des grenouilles (The life of frogs)'' together with Alain Dubois and in 2017, also with Dubois, the work ''Évolution, extinction: le message des grenouilles (Evolution, extinction: the message from the frogs).''

Selected taxa described by Ohler

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Allopaa ''Allopaa'' is a small genus of frogs in the family Dicroglossidae. Their distribution is restricted to Kashmir region of India and Pakistan. The phylogenetic In biology, phylogenetics (; from Greek φυλή/ φῦλον [] "tribe, clan, rac ...

'' *''Aubria masako'' *''Chrysopaa'' *''Cyrtodactylus buchardi'' *''Fejervarya iskandari'' *''Fejervarya sahyadris'' *''Gracixalus'' *'' Hylarana faber'' *''

Lankanectes ''Lankanectes'' is a genus of frogs in the family Nyctibatrachidae that is endemic to Sri Lanka. It is the only member of the Nyctibatrachidae to be found outside India and the only member of the subfamily Lankanectinae. There are two known spec ...

'' *'' Leptobrachium buchardi'' *''

Leptodactylodon blanci ''Leptodactylodon blanci'' is a species of frog in the family Arthroleptidae. It is endemic to Gabon and only known from its type locality, Reserve de Faune de la Lope. The specific name ''blanci'' honours Charles Pierre Blanc, a French herpet ...

'' *'' Leptolalax pluvialis'' * Micrixalidae *'' Nanorana rarica'' *'' Ophryophryne gerti'' *'' Ophryophryne hansi'' *''

Philautus cardamonus ''Philautus cardamonus'' is a species of frogs in the family Rhacophoridae. It is endemic to Cambodia, only known from the vicinity of the type locality in the Phnom Sankos Wildlife Sanctuary in the Cardamom Mountains. Its natural habitat is s ...

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Ptychadena pujoli ''Ptychadena pujoli'' is a species of frog in the family Ptychadenidae. It is known from Macenta and Sérédou in Guinea, Sukurela in Sierra Leone, and Mount Nimba (its Type locality (biology), type locality) in Liberia and Ivory Coast. Descripti ...

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Rhacophorus duboisi ''Zhangixalus duboisi'' is a species of frog in the family Rhacophoridae found in China and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, and heavily degraded ...

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Rhacophorus kio ''Rhacophorus kio'' is a species of flying frog in the family Rhacophoridae and is found in the rainforests of southeast Asia, in countries such as China, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its ability to glide and its adhesive toe pads make it well a ...

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Rhacophorus laoshan ''Rhacophorus laoshan'', the Laoshan tree frog, is a species of frog in the family Rhacophoridae The Rhacophoridae are a family of frogs that occur in tropical sub-Saharan Africa, South India and Sri Lanka, Japan, northeastern India to east ...

'' *'' Rhacophorus suffry'' *''

Xenophrys auralensis ''Xenophrys auralensis'' (Aural horned frog; km, កង្កែបស្នែងឱរ៉ាល់, ) is a species of frog in the family Megophryidae. It is endemic to Cambodia where it is only known from Phnom Aural, the highest mountain of C ...

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* Interview: ''Annemarie Ohler'' In: pp. 203–207. {{DEFAULTSORT:Ohler, Annemarie Austrian herpetologists Living people National Museum of Natural History (France) people 1960 births Women herpetologists Austrian women biologists 21st-century Austrian women scientists