Linda Trueb Curator in Charge Division of Herpetology Natural History Museum & Biodiversity Research Center 1345 Jayhawk Blvd.—Dyche Hall The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas 66045-7561 Phone: (785) 864-3342 FAX: (785) 864-5335 E-mail: trueb@KU.edu
	EDUCATION: 1968 Ph.D., The University of Kansas RESEARCH INTERESTS: My general research interests are centered on the systematics and morphology of fossil and Recent amphibians, with particular emphasis on amphibian osteology and on anurans. Working with colleagues in the U.S., Argentina, and South Africa, I have described several new taxa of Mesozoic pipoid anurans from South America and Africa. I am collaborating with Dr. Carol Meteyer of the U.S.G.S. Wildlife Health Center in Wisconsin to describe developmental malformations in natural populations anuran larvae from the East Coast and upper Midwest. With the support of an NSF Tree-of-Life grant, AmphibiaTree, KU is cooperating with Harvard University, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Texas in Austin in studies devoted to resolution of the phylogenetic history and relationships of lissampibians. As part of this work, I am collaborating with German colleagues on the description of new taxa of New World microhylid frogs and ontogenetic descriptions of the skeletal development of some Old World microhylid taxa. In addition to these research projects, I share with David Wake and David Vieglais the responsibilities for directing and overseeing the activities of HerpNET, an NSF-funded initiative to implement a distributed database of specimen data (including georeferenced localities) for some 3.9 million specimens of amphibians and reptiles housed in 38 North American institutions. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: In press. Trueb, L, and A. M. Báez. Revision of the Early Cretaceous Cordicephalus from Israel and an assessment of its relationships among pipoid frogs 50 ms. pp. + 10 figures. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 2005. Trueb, L., C. Ross, and R. Smith. A new pipoid anuran from the Late Cretaceous of South Africa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25 (3):000–000. 2003. Trueb, L., and M. Laurin. Early evolution and fossil history. Grzimek’s Animal Life Encyclopedia. Vol. 6: 7–13. 2003. Trueb, L. Rhinophrynidae. Family Account. Grzimek’s Animal Life Encyclopedia. Vol. 6: 95–97. 2003. Trueb, L. Clawed frogs and Surinam toads (Pipidae). Grzimek’s Animal Life Encyclopedia. Vol. 6: 99–102 2003. Trueb, L. Amphibian structure and function. Grzimek’s Animal Life Encyclopedia. Vol. 6: 15–27. 2003. Pugener, L. A., A. M. Maglia, and L. Trueb. Revisiting the contribution of larval characters to an analysis of phylogenetic relationships of basal anurans. Zool. J. Linnean Society 139:129–155. 2003. Duellman, William E., and Linda Trueb. Frogs. Pp. 64–87 in T. R. Halliday and K. Adler (eds.). New Encyclopedia of Reptiles and Amphibians. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2002. Trueb, L. Amphibian Biology. Vol. 4. Palaeontology. The Evolutionary History of Amphibians. By Harold Heatwole and Robert L. Carroll (eds.). 2000. Surrey Beatty & Sons Pty. Limited, 43 Rickard Road, Chipping Norton, NSW 2170, Australia. ISBN 0-949324-87-6. 524 p. $137.50 (hard cover). Book Review. Copeia, 2002: 708–713. 2001. Trueb, L., and D. Massemin. The osteology and relationships of Pipa aspera (Amphibia: Anura: Pipidae), with notes on its natural history in French Guiana. Amphibia-Reptilia 1(22):33–54. 2001. Maglia, A. M., L. A. Púgener, and L. Trueb. Comparative development of frogs: using phylogeny to understand ontogeny. Am. Zool. 41 (3):538–551. 2000. Báez, A. M., L. Trueb, J. Calvo. A report on the earliest known pipoid frog from South America, with the description of a new genus and species from the middle Cretaceous of Argentina . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20 (3):490–500. 2000. Ontogeny of the Bizarre: An Osteological Description of Pipa pipa (Anura: Pipidae), with an Account of Skeletal Development in the Species. J. Morphol. 243:75–104 (L. A. Púgener and Anne M. Maglia, co-authors). SELECTED PRESENTATIONS: 2001 The Status of North American Herpetological Collections. 29 August 2001. Joint meetings of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles & The Herpetologists' League. Indianapolis, Indiana. Linda Trueb and David B. Wake. 2000: Distinguished Herpetologist, Plenary Lecture, Joint Meeting of ASIH, HL, SSAR in La Paz, Mexico: 14-21 June 2000."Frogs, Fossils, & Phylogeny". 1998: Comparative development of basal frogs. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. 04 January 1998. Boston, MA. Anne Maglia, Analía Púgener, and Linda Trueb. 1997: The bearing of the Paleogene frog Shelania pascuali on the relationships of fossil and Recent pipoid anurans. Third World Congress of Herpetology. 02-10 August 1997. Prague, Czech Republic. Linda Trueb and A. M. Báez.