Linda Trueb is an American professor ofherpetology andsystematics biology at theUniversity of Kansas and a seniorcurator emerita at the university's Biodiversity Institute. She also acts as the associate director for the Institute's Administration and Research department.
After establishing her own lab at the University of Kansas once graduated, Trueb focused on amphibians in the neotropics, taking manyfieldwork trips there with her husband to study both amphibians and reptiles.[1] In 1986, she and her husband published the textbookBiology of Amphibians that was to act as a key reference work on the subject.[3] It was noted by Hans-Dieter Sues in a 2009 review of a separate work that the text "remains the best survey of the diversity and biology of extant amphibians."[4] She served as president of theAmerican Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists in 1992[2] and has had editorial positions for several academic journals, including theJournal of Morphology.[1]
Her research has been published on the morphology of amphibians, beginning with cranial studies in the 1970s tophylogenetic investigations between living and fossil frog species in the 1980s, along with additional relational genetics of groups in the following decade. While continuing with thisosteology research, Trueb retired from her lab position in 1997, becoming "Curator-In-Charge" for theUniversity of Kansas Natural History Museum until 2008. She then took up administration work for the university's Biodiversity Institute.[5]
—; Schultze, Hans-Peter, eds. (1991).Origins of the Higher Groups of Tetrapods: Controversy and Consensus. Comstock Pub. Associates. p. 724.ISBN9780801424977.[8]
