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In 1953, the immediate Past–President of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Charles M. Bogert, formed a committee to compile common names for the North American herpetofauna. The committee consisting of R. Conant, FR Cagle, CJ Goin, CH Lowe, WT Neill, MG Netting, K. P. Schmidt, CE Shaw, and RC Stebbins was chaired by Conant and the resulting publication summarized their philosophy, methods, and the names (Conant et al., 1956). Subsequent revisions by the committee were published in 1978 and 1982 (Collins et al., 1978, 1982) and subsequently by Collins alone as the coordinator of larger committees named within those publications (Collins, 1990, 1997).

Recently, a committee sanctioned by the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, and The Herpetologists’ League, was appointed to continue the …