page_title: Karl Patterson Schmidt
section_title: Species and subspecies named for Karl Schmidt
hierarchical_section_title: Karl Patterson Schmidt / Taxa / Species and subspecies named for Karl Schmidt
caption_attribution_description: Close-up of a boomslang snake through glass at the snake centre near our campsite in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania
context_page_description: Karl Patterson Schmidt was an American herpetologist.
context_section_description: Many species and subspecies of amphibians and reptiles are named in his honor, including:
  Acanthodactylus schmidti Haas, 1957
  Afrotyphlops schmidti (Laurent, 1956)
  Amphisbaena schmidti Gans, 1964
  Aspidoscelis hyperythra schmidti Van Denburgh & Slevin, 1921
  Batrachuperus karlschmidti Liu, 1950
  Calamaria schmidti Marx & Inger, 1955
  Coniophanes schmidti Bailey, 1937
  Eleutherodactylus karlschmidti C. Grant, 1931
  Emoia schmidti W. Brown, 1954
  Lerista karlschmidti (Marx & Hosmer, 1959)
  Liolaemus schmidti (Marx, 1960)
  Pseudoxenodon karlschmidti Pope, 1928
  Scincella schmidti Barbour, 1927
  Thrasops schmidti Loveridge, 1936
  Tribolonotus schmidti Burt, 1930
  Urosaurus ornatus schmidti (Mittleman, 1940)
  Varanus karlschmidti Mertens, 1951
caption: Schmidt was killed by the bite of a juvenile boomslang snake.
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