Rose Marie Antoinette Blommers-Schlösser

Rose Marie Antoinette Blommers-Schlösser (Eindhoven, 1944) is a Dutch herpetologist and entomologist.^[1][2]

Rose Marie Antoinette Blommers-Schlösser
Born	1944 (age 80–81) Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Alma mater	University of Amsterdam
Scientific career
Fields	Herpetology, entomology
Thesis	Biosystematics of Malagasy frogs  (1980)

Life and research

Blommers-Schlösser conducted her PhD at the University of Amsterdam on the systematics of the frogs of Madagascar.^[2] Together with numerous other herpetologists, especially Charles P. Blanc, she described numerous species of frogs from Madagascar, including Mantidactylus spiniferus, Boophis reticulatus, Spinomantis guibei, and Guibemantis punctatus,^[3] and contributed extensively to the knowledge of these and other species.^{[3][4][5][6][7]} She contributed particularly significantly to understanding of the reproductive behaviour of numerous microhylids from Madagascar,^[8] and supraspecific taxonomy of the Mantellidae.^[5][6][7] She also contributed to the literature on the karyotypes of phytoseiid mites of Madagascar in 1975.^[1][9]

Matronyms

The frog genus Blommersia, and the species Blommersia blommersae and Boophis blommersae, were named in honour of Blommers-Schlösser,^[1] in recognition of her contributions to the herpetology of Madagascar.