# Taran Grant

Taran Grant é um herpetólogo canadiense.

## Vida académica

Grant se formou como Licenciado em Biologia na Universidade do Vale em Cali, na Colômbia, em 1998. Conseguiu o Mestrado na Universidade Columbia em Nova Iorque, em Política Ambiental, com a tese "The Phylogeny of Poison Dart Frogs (Amphibia: Anura: Dendrobatidae)". Em 2005, sob a direção de Darrel R. Frost, se formou como Doutor em Ecologia e Biologia evolutiva.
Trabalhou no Museu Americano de História Natural e na Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, no Brasil, desenvolvendo pesquisas sobre a filogenia do género de morcegos Anoura. Desde 2011 é professor da Universidade de São Paulo.

## Taxones descriptos

* Adelphobates Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel & Wheeler, 2006
* Allobates alessandroi (Grant & Rodriguez, 2001)
* Allobates melanolaemus (Grant & Rodriguez, 2001)
* Allobates niputidea Grant, Acosta-Galvis & Rada, 2007
* Allobatinae Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel & Wheeler, 2006
* Alsodinae Mivart, 1869
* Amietophrynus Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green & Wheeler, 2006
* Anomaloglossinae Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel & Wheeler, 2006
* Anomaloglossus atopoglossus (Grant, Humphrey & Myers, 1997)
* Anomaloglossus Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel & Wheeler, 2006
* Aromobatidae Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel & Wheeler, 2006
* Aromobatinae Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel & Wheeler, 2006
* Colostethus lynchi Grant, 1998
* Colostethus ucumari Grant, 2007
* Duttaphrynus Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green & Wheeler, 2006
* Eleutherodactylus cochranae Grant, 1932
* Eleutherodactylus cooki Grant, 1932
* Eleutherodactylus karlschmidti Grant, 1931
* Feihyla Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green & Wheeler, 2006
* Hyloxalinae Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel & Wheeler, 2006
* Hyloxalus fascianigrus (Grant & Castro-Herrera, 1998)
* Hyloxalus saltuarius (Grant & Ardila-Robayo, 2002)
* Ingerophrynus Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green & Wheeler, 2006
* Litoria michaeltyleri Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green & Wheeler, 2006
* Poyntonophrynus Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green & Wheeler, 2006
* Pseudepidalea Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green & Wheeler, 2006
* Rheobates Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel & Wheeler, 2006
* Rhinella ruizi (Grant, 2000)
* Silverstoneia Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel & Wheeler, 2006
* Synophis plectovertebralis Sheil & Grant, 2001
* Vandijkophrynus Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green & Wheeler, 2006