Arnold G. Kluge (born 1935) is professor emeritus of zoology and curator emeritus of amphibians and reptiles at the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

, Museum of Zoology. Kluge authored over 140 journal articles. He served as past president of the

Willi Hennig Society The Willi Hennig Society "was founded in 1980 with the expressed purpose of promoting the field of phylogenetic systematics." The society is represented by phylogenetic systematists managing and publishing in the peer-reviewed journal titled ''Clad ...

and as editor-in-chief of its journal ''

Cladistics Cladistics (; ) is an approach to biological classification in which organisms are categorized in groups (" clades") based on hypotheses of most recent common ancestry. The evidence for hypothesized relationships is typically shared derived char ...

''. He served at the University of Michigan from 1965 until his retirement in 2003. Amongst the new taxa published by Kluge is ''

Crenadactylus ''Crenadactylus'', the clawless geckos, are named for their distinguishing feature, the absence of terminal claws on the digits. They are the only Australian members of Gekkonidae to lack claws, the endemic genus is also the smallest in size. ...

'', tiny Australian clawless geckos reclassified as a separate genus with co-author

James R. Dixon James Ray Dixon (August 1, 1928, in Houston, Texas – January 10, 2015, in Bryan, Texas) was professor emeritus and curator emeritus of amphibians and reptiles at the Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collection at Texas A&M University. He lived in El C ...

in 1964.

Eponyms

Dr. Kluge is honored in the specific names of three

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

of lizards.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Kluge", p. 143). *''

Cyrtodactylus klugei ''Cyrtodactylus klugei'' is a species of gecko, a lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to Papua New Guinea. Etymology The specific name, ''klugei'', is in honor of American herpetologist Arnold G. Kluge.Beolens, Bo; Watkins ...

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Diplodactylus klugei ''Diplodactylus klugei'' is a species of gecko, a lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to Australia. Etymology The specific name, ''klugei'', is in honor of American herpetologist Arnold G. Kluge.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Mich ...

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Lygodactylus klugei Kluge's dwarf gecko (''Lygodactylus klugei'') is a species of gecko, a lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is native to northeastern Brazil. Etymology The specific name, ''klugei'', is in honor of American herpetologist Arnold G. Klu ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kluge, Arnold G. Evolutionary biologists Living people University of Michigan faculty 1935 births American herpetologists Fulbright alumni