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Our task
In addition to the live animals in the exhibition area (Water - Life in the River), the Museum Koenig also houses a scientific live animal facility. In modern terrarium and aquarium facilities, lower vertebrates (fish, amphibians and reptiles) and various invertebrates are kept and bred for research purposes. Keeping live animals enables investigations that are difficult to carry out in the wild and thus provides important findings, e.g. on behavioural and reproductive biology, larval development or functional morphology. The information obtained in this way supports collection-based research and field work on taxonomic and evolutionary biology issues, but also helps to protect species by collecting useful data for conservation breeding programmes or for the protection of natural populations.
Fish
The focus of research in the aquaria is on Southeast Asian fishes from Sulawesi. Current projects are investigating the functional and ecomorphology of an adaptive radiation of the sunray fishes of Sulawesi, especially their jaw apparatus and its effect on feeding behaviour, as well as the evolution of the unique reproductive strategy of rice fishes, which is being explored by means of breeding lines.
Frogs
In amphibians, research focusses on the developmental biology of tropical frogs, their larval development, comparative larval morphology and bioacoustics.
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Contact person
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- Curator Herpetology
- Radiation Protection Officer
Phone: +49 228 9122 234
E-Mail: c.koch@leibniz-lib.de
Projects
There are currently no projects available
Publications
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2023/07
Captive breeding, embryonic and larval development of Ranitomeya variabilis (Zimmermann & Zimmermann, 1988), (Anura, Dendrobatidae)
ZooKeys, 1172
2021/05
Integrative approach to resolve the Calotes mystaceus Duméril & Bibron, 1837 species complex (Squamata: Agamidae)
Bonn zoological bulletin, 1, 70
2019/06
Herpetofauna of the Phnom Kulen National Park, northern Cambodia — An annotated checklist
Cambodian Journal of Natural History, 1, 2019
2016/04
Integrative Taxonomy of Southeast Asian Snail-Eating Turtles (Geoemydidae: Malayemys) Reveals a New Species and Mitochondrial Introgression
PloS one, 4, 11
2014/06
Habitat suitability, coverage by protected areas and population connectivity for the Siamese crocodile Crocodylus siamensis Schneider, 1801
Aquatic conservation, 4, 25
2014/04
Assessment of genetic structure, habitat suitability and effectiveness of reserves for future conservation planning of the Euphrates soft‐shelled turtle Rafetus euphraticus (Daudin, 1802)
Aquatic conservation, 6, 24
2013/01
A new species of the genus Calotes Cuvier, 1817 (Squamata: Agamidae) from southern Vietnam
Zootaxa, 3, 3599
2012/12
Rediscovery and re-description of the holotype of Lygosoma vittigerum (= Lipinia vittigera) Boulenger, 1894
Acta Herpetologica, 2, 7
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Employees
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Dipl. Biol. Timo Hartmann
ztm Animal husbandry Herpetology Bonn Animal keeperPhone: +49 228 9122 274
E-mail: t.hartmann@leibniz-lib.deInna Rech
ztm Animal husbandry Herpetology Bonn Doctoral candidatePhone: +49 228 9122 253
E-mail: i.rech@leibniz-lib.de/leibniz-lib.de/fileadmin/user_upload/01_20241120_MKB_Portraits_LowRes_SchuellerAlina_FKurceren_6N0A6724.jpg%3F1739272895)
MSc Alina Schüller
zmb ztm Animal husbandry Evolutionary genomics Doctoral candidatePhone: +49 228 9122 431
E-mail: a.schueller@leibniz-lib.de