Field Guide to the Frogs of Australia

About the Author

Michael Tyler AO DSc is a Fellow of The American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the recipient of numerous awards, including the Eureka Prize for Science Communication. He has published more than 400 scientific papers and 24 books and has edited or co-edited 11 books and journals. Among his many contributions to herpetology, he has described 69 new frog species or genera and reported the first fossil frogs from Australia and New Guinea. He is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide, and after 50 years as Honorary Associate in Herpetology at the South Australian Museum was appointed Curator Emeritus.

Frank Knight spent 25 years at CSIRO’s Division of Wildlife Research illustrating books and scientific papers. He won a CSIRO Overseas Study Award in 1980, visiting artists and illustrators in Europe, UK, USA and Canada. He left the organisation in 1991 to illustrate the best-selling Field Guide to the Birds of Australia. Since then he has illustrated a series of field guides including Parrots of the World: An Identification Guide with text by Joseph Forshaw. Field Guide to the Frogs of Australia Second Edition is his most recent work.