{{Short description|German herpetologist (born 1963)}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Gernot Vogel | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1963|6|14}} | birth_place = [[Heidelberg]], [[Germany]] | fields = [[Herpetology]], [[Chemistry]] | workplaces = Rifcon GmbH | alma_mater = [[Heidelberg University]] | known_for = Taxonomy and systematics of Asian snakes }}
'''Gernot Vogel''' (born 14 June 1963) is a German [[herpetologist]].
As of 2014 he was a self-funded freelance herpetologist and chemist not tied to an institution.<ref>[https://news.mongabay.com/2014/12/new-pit-viper-discovered-in-sumatra/ New pit viper discovered in Sumatra], 10 December 2014</ref> As of 2021 he is a member of the Society for Southeast Asian Herpetology in Germany.<ref>[https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/761774 New deadly snake from Asia named after character from Chinese myth 'Legend of White Snake'], 6 April 2021</ref>
== Biography == Vogel holds a doctorate in [[chemistry]] from [[Heidelberg University]]. Since 2007, he has worked at the Heidelberg-based company Rifcon GmbH in [[quality assurance]], focusing on the chemical and physical evaluation of [[pesticides]] and their effects on [[reptiles]].<ref name=bio1>”Gernot Vogel”, Fabrizio Li Vigni: ''A Life for Reptiles and Amphibians'', Edition Chimaira, 2013, ISBN 978-3-89973-199-6, pp. 457–460.</ref>
His career as a herpetologist was inspired by a meeting with [[Konrad Klemmer]] of the [[Naturmuseum Senckenberg]]. Since 1985, he has worked as a freelance herpetologist in [[Asia]]. His first article, on the [[bronze back snakes]] (''Dendrelaphis'') of [[Thailand]], appeared in ''herpetofauna'' in April 1990. During his fieldwork, Vogel has traveled to [[China]], [[India]], [[Malaysia]], [[Sumatra]], Thailand, [[Vietnam]], [[Laos]], the [[Philippines]], [[France]], [[Yugoslavia]], [[Turkey]], [[Greece]] and [[Tunisia]].<ref name=bio1 />
Vogel collaborates frequently with international herpetologists, including the French researcher [[Patrick David (herpetologist)|Patrick David]] on the genera ''[[Xenochrophis]]'', ''[[Oligodon]]'', ''[[Trimeresurus]]'', ''[[Tropidolaemus]]'', ''[[Amphiesma]]'', ''[[Macrocalamus]]'' and ''[[Boiga]]'', as well as with Dutch herpetologist [[Johan van Rooijen]] on the [[species description|descriptions]] of ten new species of ''Dendrelaphis'' and the revalidation of several older names.<ref name=bio1 />
He is co-author of the books ''The Amphibians and Reptiles of Mount Kinabalu (North Borneo)'' (with Rudolf Malkmus, Ulrich Manthey, Peter Hoffmann and Joachim Kosuch), ''The Snakes of Sumatra'' (with Patrick David) and ''The Snakes of Sulawesi'' (with Ruud de Lang). He is also editor of the ''Terralog'' series on [[venomous snakes]].<ref name=bio1 />
== Species described == Vogel has been involved in the [[species description|descriptions]] of the following genera and species. With the exception of the gecko ''[[Dixonius hangseesom]]'', all are snakes:
{{div col}} {{linked species list |Trimeresurus venustus |(Vogel, 1991) |Macrocalamus schulzi |(Vogel & David, 1999) |Trimeresurus gumprechti |(David, Vogel, Pauwels & Vidal, 2002) |Dixonius hangseesom |(Bauer, Sumontha, Grossmann, Pauwels & Vogel, 2004) |Trimeresurus nebularis |(Vogel, David & Pauwels, 2004) |Craspedocephalus andalasensis |(David, Vogel, Vijayakumar & Vidal, 2006) |Dendrelaphis kopsteini |(Vogel & van Rooijen, 2007) |Hebius leucomystax |(David, Bain, Quang Truong, Orlov, Vogel, Ngoc Thanh & Ziegler, 2007) |Dendrelaphis haasi |(van Rooijen & Vogel, 2008) |Dendrelaphis underwoodi |(van Rooijen & Vogel, 2008) |Dendrelaphis marenae |(Vogel & van Rooijen, 2008) |Dendrelaphis grismeri |(Vogel & van Rooijen, 2008) |Oligodon saintgironsi |(David, Vogel & Pauwels, 2008) |Oligodon pseudotaeniatus |(David, Vogel & van Rooijen, 2008) |Oligodon deuvei |(David, Vogel & van Rooijen, 2008) |Oligodon moricei |(David, Vogel & van Rooijen, 2008) |Lycodon ophiophagus |(Vogel, David, Pauwels, Sumontha, Norval, Hendrix, Vu & Ziegler, 2010) |Hebius arquus |(David & Vogel, 2010) |Lycodon synaptor |(Vogel & David, 2010) |Dendrelaphis ashoki |(Vogel & van Rooijen, 2011) |Lycodon gongshan |(Vogel & Luo, 2011) |Dendrelaphis walli |(Vogel & van Rooijen, 2011) |Lycodon liuchengchaoi |(Zhang, Jiang, Vogel & Rao, 2011) |Dendrelaphis girii |(Vogel & van Rooijen, 2011) |Oligodon wagneri |(David & Vogel, 2012) |Dendrelaphis levitoni |(van Rooijen & Vogel, 2012) |Dendrelaphis nigroserratus |(Vogel, van Rooijen & Hauser, 2012) |Lycodon davidi |(Vogel, Nguyen, Kingsada & Ziegler, 2012) |Boiga flaviviridis |(Vogel & Ganesh, 2013) |Protobothrops himalayanus |(Pan, Chettri, Yang, Jiang, Wang, Zhang & Vogel, 2013) |Opisthotropis durandi |(Tenié, Lottier, David, Nguyen & Vogel, 2014) |Trimeresurus gunaleni |(Vogel, David & Sidik, 2014) |Pareas vindumi |(Vogel, 2015) |Isanophis |(David, Pauwels, Nguyen & Vogel, 2015) |Rabdion grovesi |(Amarasinghe, Vogel, McGuire, Sidik, Supriatna & Ineich, 2015) |Blythia hmuifang |(Vogel, Lalremsanga & Vanlalhrima, 2017) |Lycodon gibsonae |(Vogel & David, 2019) |Liopeltis pallidonuchalis |(Poyarkov, Nguyen & Vogel, 2019) |Calamaria strigiventris |(Poyarkov, Nguyen, Orlov & Vogel, 2019) |Trimeresurus caudornatus |(Chen, Ding, Vogel & Shi, 2020) |Dendrelaphis wickrorum |(Danushka, Kanishka, Amarasinghe, Vogel & Seneviratne, 2020) |Smithophis linearis |(Vogel, Chen, Deepak, Gower, Shi, Ding & Hou, 2020) |Lycodon deccanensis |(Ganesh, Deuti, Punith, Achyuthan, Mallik, Adhikari & Vogel, 2020) |Trimeresurus davidi |(Chandramouli, Campbell & Vogel, 2020) |Pareas geminatus |(Ding, Chen, Suwannapoom, Nguyen, Poyarkov & Vogel, 2020) |Lycodon serratus |(Wang, Yu, Vogel & Che, 2020) |Lycodon obvelatus |(Wang, Yu, Vogel & Che, 2020) |Hebius igneus |(David, Vogel, Nguyen, Orlov, Pauwels, Teynié & Ziegler, 2021) |Pareas victorianus |(Vogel, Nguyen & Poyarkov, 2021) |Bungarus suzhenae |(Chen, Shi, Vogel, Ding & Shi, 2021) |Oligodon tolaki |(Amarasinghe, Henkanaththegedara, Campbell, Riyanto, Hallermann & Vogel, 2021) |Trimeresurus guoi |(Chen, Shi, Vogel & Ding, 2021) |Rhabdophis confusus |(David & Vogel, 2021) |Pareas abros |(Poyarkov, Nguyen, Pawangkhanant, Yushchenko, Brakels, Nguyen, Nguyen, Suwannapoom, Orlov & Vogel, 2022) |Oligodon tillacki |(Bandara, Ganesh, Kanishka, Danushka, Sharma, Campbell, Ineich, Vogel & Amarasinghe, 2022) |Oligodon teyniei |(David, Hauser & Vogel, 2022) |Herpetoreas murlen |(Lalremsanga, Bal, Vogel & Biakzuala, 2022) |Trimeresurus calamitas |(Vogel, David & Sidik, 2022) |Trimeresurus kirscheyi |(Vogel, David & Sidik, 2022) |Trimeresurus whitteni |(Vogel, David & Sidik, 2022) |Naja fuxi |(Shi, Vogel, Chen & Ding, 2022) |Pareas tigerinus |(Liu, Zhang, Poyarkov, Hou, Wu, Rao, Nguyen & Vogel, 2023) |Trimeresurus uetzi |(Vogel, Nguyen & David, 2023) |Trimeresurus cyanolabris |(Idiiatullina, Nguyen, Bragin, Pawangkhanant, Le, Vogel, David & Poyarkov, 2024) }} {{div col end}}
== Eponyms == Several species have been named in his honor: * ''[[Trimeresurus vogeli]]'' (2001) * ''[[Macrocalamus vogeli]]'' (2005) * ''[[Dendrelaphis vogeli]]'' (2020)
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * [http://gernot-vogel.de/index.php Official website] (in German)
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