Darrel Frost

[1][2] Four taxa are named in his honor: the toad genus Frostius (which includes Frost's Toad), the tree frog Dendropsophus frosti,[1] Darrel's Chorus Frog Microhyla darreli,[3] and Frost's arboreal alligator lizard Abronia frosti.

[4][5] Frost became interested in animals after witnessing his father kill a rattlesnake at the age of four.

[9] Starting in 1990, Frost completely overhauled the catalog and now publishes it on the website of the American Museum of Natural History.

[12] Frost was lead author of a 2006 study that recommended major taxonomic changes to the amphibian tree of life based on a phylogenetic analysis of 522 species,[13][14] making it the largest phylogenetic analysis of a vertebrate group to date.

[15] Frost has worked in Guatemala, Ethiopia, Mexico, Peru, Namibia, South Africa and Vietnam,[7] and described a number of new species.