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Kevin de Queiroz is a vertebrate, evolutionary, and systematic biologist.

Kevin de Queiroz.

Kevin de Queiroz.

Research Zoologist, Curator of Amphibians & Reptiles.

Research Interests: Systematics and evolutionary biology of amphibians and reptiles; principles and methods of systematic biology.

Research Zoologist.

Kevin DE QUEIROZ, Research Zoologist | Cited by | of Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. | Read publications | Contact Kevin DE QUEIROZ.

He has worked in the phylogenetics and evolutionary biology of squamate reptiles, the development of a unified species concept and of a phylogenetic approach to biological nomenclature, and the philosophy of systematic biology.

Early life and career

De Queiroz was born and raised in Los Angeles, California.

He received a B.S. in Biology from the University of California, Los Angeles (1978), a M.S. in Zoology from San Diego State University (1985), and a Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of California, Berkeley (1989).^[1] He was a Tilton Postdoctoral Fellow at the California Academy of Sciences and is currently a Research Zoologist and a curator of the collection of Amphibians and Reptiles at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.^[1] He is a former president of the Society of Systematic Biologists and was the first president of the Inte