Djoko Iskandar

Djoko Tjahjono Iskandar (born 1950) is an Indonesian herpetologist who studies the amphibians of Southeast Asia and Australasia. He is a professor of biosystematics and ecology at Bandung Institute of Technology in West Java, Indonesia.

Iskandar has been the first to describe many species of amphibian, including the Bornean flat-headed frog (Barbourula kalimantanensis) in 1978,^[1][2] and, in 2014, Limnonectes larvaepartus, the only known frog that directly births tadpoles.^[3] He is the author of The Amphibians of Java and Bali.^[4] The monotypic banded watersnake genus Djokoiskandarus is named in his honour,^[5] as are several species of lizard and frog.

Taxa named in his honour

• Djokoiskandarus annulatus (2011)
• Polypedates iskandari (2011)
• Draco iskandari (2007)
• Gekko iskandari (2000)^[6]
• Fejervarya iskandari (2001)^[7]

Species described

• Ansonia glandulosa Iskandar & Mumpuni, 2004^[8]
• Barbourula kalimantanensis Iskandar, 1978^[1]
• Boiga hoeseli Ramadhan, Iskandar & Subasri, 2010^[9]
• Calamaria banggaiensis Koch, Arida, Mcguire, Iskandar & Böhme, 2009^[10]
• Cyrtodactylus batik Iskandar, Rachmansah & Umilaela, 2011^[11]
• Cyrtodactylus nuaulu Oliver, Edgar, Mumpuni, Iskandar & Lilley, 2009 ^[12]
• Cyrtodactylus wallacei Hayden, et al., 2008 ^[13]
• Eutropis grandis Howard, Gillespie, Riyanto, Iskandar, 2007^[14]
• Hemiphyllodactylus engganoensis Grismer, Riyanto, Iskandar & McGuire, 2014^[15]
• Hylarana eschatia (Inger, Stuart, & Iskandar, 2009)
• Hylarana megalonesa (Inger, Stuart & Iskandar, 2009)
• Hylarana parvacola (Inger, Stuart & Iskandar, 2009)
• Hylarana rufipes (Inger, Stuart & Iskandar, 2009)
• Ingerana rajae Iskandar, Bickford, Arifin, 2011^[16]
• Kalophrynus minusculus Iskandar, 1998
• Limnonectes kadarsani Iskandar, Boeadi & Sancoyo, 1996
• Limnonectes larvaepartus Iskandar, Evans & McGuire, 2014^[3]
• Limnonectes sisikdagu McLeod, Horner, Husted, Barley & Iskandar, 2011^[17]
• Litoria megalops (Richards & Iskandar, 2006)^[18]
• Litoria purpureolata Oliver, Richards, Tjaturadi & Iskandar, 2007^[19]
• Litoria wapogaensis Richards & Iskandar, 2001
• Occidozyga tompotika Iskandar, Arifin & Rachmansah, 2011^[20]
• Oreophryne atrigularis Günther, Richards & Iskandar, 2001
• Oreophryne furu Günther, Richards, Tjaturadi, and Iskandar, 2009^[21]
• Oreophryne minuta Richards & Iskandar, 2000
• Oreophryne wapoga Günther, Richards & Iskandar, 2001
• Xenophrys parallela (Inger & Iskandar, 2005)