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German herpetologist (born 1963)

Gernot Vogel Born (1963-06-14) June 14, 1963 (age 63) Heidelberg, Germany Alma mater Heidelberg University Known for Taxonomy and systematics of Asian snakes Scientific career Fields Herpetology, Chemistry Institutions Rifcon GmbH

**Gernot Vogel** (born 14 June 1963) is a German [herpetologist](/source/Herpetologist).

As of 2014 he was a self-funded freelance herpetologist and chemist not tied to an institution.[1] As of 2021 he is a member of the Society for Southeast Asian Herpetology in Germany.[2]

## Biography

Vogel holds a doctorate in [chemistry](/source/Chemistry) from [Heidelberg University](/source/Heidelberg_University). Since 2007, he has worked at the Heidelberg-based company Rifcon GmbH in [quality assurance](/source/Quality_assurance), focusing on the chemical and physical evaluation of [pesticides](/source/Pesticides) and their effects on [reptiles](/source/Reptiles).[3]

His career as a herpetologist was inspired by a meeting with [Konrad Klemmer](/source/Konrad_Klemmer) of the [Naturmuseum Senckenberg](/source/Naturmuseum_Senckenberg). Since 1985, he has worked as a freelance herpetologist in [Asia](/source/Asia). His first article, on the [bronze back snakes](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bronze_back_snakes&action=edit&redlink=1) (*Dendrelaphis*) of [Thailand](/source/Thailand), appeared in *herpetofauna* in April 1990. During his fieldwork, Vogel has traveled to [China](/source/China), [India](/source/India), [Malaysia](/source/Malaysia), [Sumatra](/source/Sumatra), Thailand, [Vietnam](/source/Vietnam), [Laos](/source/Laos), the [Philippines](/source/Philippines), [France](/source/France), [Yugoslavia](/source/Yugoslavia), [Turkey](/source/Turkey), [Greece](/source/Greece) and [Tunisia](/source/Tunisia).[3]

Vogel collaborates frequently with international herpetologists, including the French researcher [Patrick David](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Patrick_David_(herpetologist)&action=edit&redlink=1) on the genera *[Xenochrophis](/source/Xenochrophis)*, *[Oligodon](/source/Oligodon)*, *[Trimeresurus](/source/Trimeresurus)*, *[Tropidolaemus](/source/Tropidolaemus)*, *[Amphiesma](/source/Amphiesma)*, *[Macrocalamus](/source/Macrocalamus)* and *[Boiga](/source/Boiga)*, as well as with Dutch herpetologist [Johan van Rooijen](/source/Johan_van_Rooijen) on the [descriptions](/source/Species_description) of ten new species of *Dendrelaphis* and the revalidation of several older names.[3]

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](/source/Venomous_snakes).[3]

## Species described

Vogel has been involved in the [descriptions](/source/Species_description) of the following genera and species. With the exception of the gecko *[Dixonius hangseesom](/source/Dixonius_hangseesom)*, all are snakes:

- *[Trimeresurus venustus](/source/Trimeresurus_venustus)* (Vogel, 1991)
- *[Macrocalamus schulzi](/source/Macrocalamus_schulzi)* (Vogel & David, 1999)
- *[Trimeresurus gumprechti](/source/Trimeresurus_gumprechti)* (David, Vogel, Pauwels & Vidal, 2002)
- *[Dixonius hangseesom](/source/Dixonius_hangseesom)* (Bauer, Sumontha, Grossmann, Pauwels & Vogel, 2004)
- *[Trimeresurus nebularis](/source/Trimeresurus_nebularis)* (Vogel, David & Pauwels, 2004)
- *[Craspedocephalus andalasensis](/source/Craspedocephalus_andalasensis)* (David, Vogel, Vijayakumar & Vidal, 2006)
- *[Dendrelaphis kopsteini](/source/Dendrelaphis_kopsteini)* (Vogel & van Rooijen, 2007)
- *[Hebius leucomystax](/source/Hebius_leucomystax)* (David, Bain, Quang Truong, Orlov, Vogel, Ngoc Thanh & Ziegler, 2007)
- *[Dendrelaphis haasi](/source/Dendrelaphis_haasi)* (van Rooijen & Vogel, 2008)
- *[Dendrelaphis underwoodi](/source/Dendrelaphis_underwoodi)* (van Rooijen & Vogel, 2008)
- *[Dendrelaphis marenae](/source/Dendrelaphis_marenae)* (Vogel & van Rooijen, 2008)
- *[Dendrelaphis grismeri](/source/Dendrelaphis_grismeri)* (Vogel & van Rooijen, 2008)
- *[Oligodon saintgironsi](/source/Oligodon_saintgironsi)* (David, Vogel & Pauwels, 2008)
- *[Oligodon pseudotaeniatus](/source/Oligodon_pseudotaeniatus)* (David, Vogel & van Rooijen, 2008)
- *[Oligodon deuvei](/source/Oligodon_deuvei)* (David, Vogel & van Rooijen, 2008)
- *[Oligodon moricei](/source/Oligodon_moricei)* (David, Vogel & van Rooijen, 2008)
- *[Lycodon ophiophagus](/source/Lycodon_ophiophagus)* (Vogel, David, Pauwels, Sumontha, Norval, Hendrix, Vu & Ziegler, 2010)
- *[Hebius arquus](/source/Hebius_arquus)* (David & Vogel, 2010)
- *[Lycodon synaptor](/source/Lycodon_synaptor)* (Vogel & David, 2010)
- *[Dendrelaphis ashoki](/source/Dendrelaphis_ashoki)* (Vogel & van Rooijen, 2011)
- *[Lycodon gongshan](/source/Lycodon_gongshan)* (Vogel & Luo, 2011)
- *[Dendrelaphis walli](/source/Dendrelaphis_walli)* (Vogel & van Rooijen, 2011)
- *[Lycodon liuchengchaoi](/source/Lycodon_liuchengchaoi)* (Zhang, Jiang, Vogel & Rao, 2011)
- *[Dendrelaphis girii](/source/Dendrelaphis_girii)* (Vogel & van Rooijen, 2011)
- *[Oligodon wagneri](/source/Oligodon_wagneri)* (David & Vogel, 2012)
- *[Dendrelaphis levitoni](/source/Dendrelaphis_levitoni)* (van Rooijen & Vogel, 2012)
- *[Dendrelaphis nigroserratus](/source/Dendrelaphis_nigroserratus)* (Vogel, van Rooijen & Hauser, 2012)
- *[Lycodon davidi](/source/Lycodon_davidi)* (Vogel, Nguyen, Kingsada & Ziegler, 2012)
- *[Boiga flaviviridis](/source/Boiga_flaviviridis)* (Vogel & Ganesh, 2013)
- *[Protobothrops himalayanus](/source/Protobothrops_himalayanus)* (Pan, Chettri, Yang, Jiang, Wang, Zhang & Vogel, 2013)
- *[Opisthotropis durandi](/source/Opisthotropis_durandi)* (Tenié, Lottier, David, Nguyen & Vogel, 2014)
- *[Trimeresurus gunaleni](/source/Trimeresurus_gunaleni)* (Vogel, David & Sidik, 2014)
- *[Pareas vindumi](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pareas_vindumi&action=edit&redlink=1)* (Vogel, 2015)
- *[Isanophis](/source/Isanophis)* (David, Pauwels, Nguyen & Vogel, 2015)
- *[Rabdion grovesi](/source/Rabdion_grovesi)* (Amarasinghe, Vogel, McGuire, Sidik, Supriatna & Ineich, 2015)
- *[Blythia hmuifang](/source/Blythia_hmuifang)* (Vogel, Lalremsanga & Vanlalhrima, 2017)
- *[Lycodon gibsonae](/source/Lycodon_gibsonae)* (Vogel & David, 2019)
- *[Liopeltis pallidonuchalis](/source/Liopeltis_pallidonuchalis)* (Poyarkov, Nguyen & Vogel, 2019)
- *[Calamaria strigiventris](/source/Calamaria_strigiventris)* (Poyarkov, Nguyen, Orlov & Vogel, 2019)
- *[Trimeresurus caudornatus](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trimeresurus_caudornatus&action=edit&redlink=1)* (Chen, Ding, Vogel & Shi, 2020)
- *[Dendrelaphis wickrorum](/source/Dendrelaphis_wickrorum)* (Danushka, Kanishka, Amarasinghe, Vogel & Seneviratne, 2020)
- *[Smithophis linearis](/source/Smithophis_linearis)* (Vogel, Chen, Deepak, Gower, Shi, Ding & Hou, 2020)
- *[Lycodon deccanensis](/source/Lycodon_deccanensis)* (Ganesh, Deuti, Punith, Achyuthan, Mallik, Adhikari & Vogel, 2020)
- *[Trimeresurus davidi](/source/Trimeresurus_davidi)* (Chandramouli, Campbell & Vogel, 2020)
- *[Pareas geminatus](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pareas_geminatus&action=edit&redlink=1)* (Ding, Chen, Suwannapoom, Nguyen, Poyarkov & Vogel, 2020)
- *[Lycodon serratus](/source/Lycodon_serratus)* (Wang, Yu, Vogel & Che, 2020)
- *[Lycodon obvelatus](/source/Lycodon_obvelatus)* (Wang, Yu, Vogel & Che, 2020)
- *[Hebius igneus](/source/Hebius_igneus)* (David, Vogel, Nguyen, Orlov, Pauwels, Teynié & Ziegler, 2021)
- *[Pareas victorianus](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pareas_victorianus&action=edit&redlink=1)* (Vogel, Nguyen & Poyarkov, 2021)
- *[Bungarus suzhenae](/source/Bungarus_suzhenae)* (Chen, Shi, Vogel, Ding & Shi, 2021)
- *[Oligodon tolaki](/source/Oligodon_tolaki)* (Amarasinghe, Henkanaththegedara, Campbell, Riyanto, Hallermann & Vogel, 2021)
- *[Trimeresurus guoi](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trimeresurus_guoi&action=edit&redlink=1)* (Chen, Shi, Vogel & Ding, 2021)
- *[Rhabdophis confusus](/source/Rhabdophis_confusus)* (David & Vogel, 2021)
- *[Pareas abros](/source/Pareas_abros)* (Poyarkov, Nguyen, Pawangkhanant, Yushchenko, Brakels, Nguyen, Nguyen, Suwannapoom, Orlov & Vogel, 2022)
- *[Oligodon tillacki](/source/Oligodon_tillacki)* (Bandara, Ganesh, Kanishka, Danushka, Sharma, Campbell, Ineich, Vogel & Amarasinghe, 2022)
- *[Oligodon teyniei](/source/Oligodon_teyniei)* (David, Hauser & Vogel, 2022)
- *[Herpetoreas murlen](/source/Herpetoreas_murlen)* (Lalremsanga, Bal, Vogel & Biakzuala, 2022)
- *[Trimeresurus calamitas](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trimeresurus_calamitas&action=edit&redlink=1)* (Vogel, David & Sidik, 2022)
- *[Trimeresurus kirscheyi](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trimeresurus_kirscheyi&action=edit&redlink=1)* (Vogel, David & Sidik, 2022)
- *[Trimeresurus whitteni](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trimeresurus_whitteni&action=edit&redlink=1)* (Vogel, David & Sidik, 2022)
- *[Naja fuxi](/source/Naja_fuxi)* (Shi, Vogel, Chen & Ding, 2022)
- *[Pareas tigerinus](/source/Pareas_tigerinus)* (Liu, Zhang, Poyarkov, Hou, Wu, Rao, Nguyen & Vogel, 2023)
- *[Trimeresurus uetzi](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trimeresurus_uetzi&action=edit&redlink=1)* (Vogel, Nguyen & David, 2023)
- *[Trimeresurus cyanolabris](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trimeresurus_cyanolabris&action=edit&redlink=1)* (Idiiatullina, Nguyen, Bragin, Pawangkhanant, Le, Vogel, David & Poyarkov, 2024)

## Eponyms

Several species have been named in his honor:

- *[Trimeresurus vogeli](/source/Trimeresurus_vogeli)* (2001)

- *[Macrocalamus vogeli](/source/Macrocalamus_vogeli)* (2005)

- *[Dendrelaphis vogeli](/source/Dendrelaphis_vogeli)* (2020)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [New pit viper discovered in Sumatra](https://news.mongabay.com/2014/12/new-pit-viper-discovered-in-sumatra/), 10 December 2014

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [New deadly snake from Asia named after character from Chinese myth 'Legend of White Snake'](https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/761774), 6 April 2021

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-bio1_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-bio1_3-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-bio1_3-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-bio1_3-3) ”Gernot Vogel”, Fabrizio Li Vigni: *A Life for Reptiles and Amphibians*, Edition Chimaira, 2013, ISBN 978-3-89973-199-6, pp. 457–460.

## External links

- [Official website](http://gernot-vogel.de/index.php) (in German)

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