Lily O. Rodríguez

Lily O. Rodríguez is a Peruvian zoologist (herpetologist), ecologist and an expert in biodiversity conservation with extensive experience in international cooperation.

[1] Rodríguez studied biology with a major in zoology at the National Agrarian University, in Lima, Peru.

In 1991, she earned a PhD in ecology, from the University of Paris VII, now known as Paris Diderot University, with her dissertation on the "reproduction and diversity of the frog community of Cocha Cashu, Manú National Park, Peru.

[5] As of 2017, she has authored four taxons – four new species of terrestrial-breeding frogs belonging to the genus Phrynopus from specimens collected on the eastern slopes of the Cordillera Oriental in northeastern Peru.

[6] The abbreviation L.O.Rodríguez is used to indicate Lily O. Rodríguez as the authority on description and taxonomy in zoology.