Bryan Lynn Stuart
American herpetologist
Bryan Lynn Stuart often written as Bryan L. Stuart is an American herpetologist. He is specialized in the herpetofauna of Southeast Asia, especially in patterns and processes of speciation in morphologically cryptic species complexes. A total of 66 taxon are first described by Stuart.
Stuart earned his MSc at the North Carolina State University and earned his PhD from the University of Illinois and works at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, University of California where he also fulfilled his postdoc.
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