Please answer the following question: What type of details about james a. peters can be gathered from the following bio? Bio: james arthur peters -lrb- june 13 , 1922 -- december 18 , 1972 -rrb- was born in durant , iowa ; grew up in greenup , illinois . he studied at the university of michigan and obtained his ph. d. in biology in 1952 . he studied with the herpetologist norman edouard hartweg . he held teaching positions in brown university -lrb- 1952 -- 1958 -rrb- universidad central de ecuador , fulbright lecturer -lrb- 1958 -- 1959 -rrb- southern illinois university -lrb- 1959 -rrb- san fernando valley state college -lrb- 1959 -- 1966 -rrb- he held positions in the department of reptiles and amphibians at the smithsonian institution associate curator -lrb- 1964 -- 1967 -rrb- curator -lrb- 1967 -- 1972 -rrb- peters was a member of professional societies such as : american society of ichthyologists and herpetologists , where he served as secretary , 1960 -- 1966 , vice-president , 1967 and president , 1970 . he was elected to the washington biologists ' field club . he inaugurated the smithsonian herpetological information services which distributed materials to herpetological institutions and individuals . he founded the newsletter mudpie -lrb- museum and university data program and information exchange -rrb- providing information on computer programs , references , grants , meetings , etc. . his main subject of research was herpetology and zoogeography of latin america , especially ecuador . during his thirty years of research in herpetology he described seventeen new species or subspecies , most of them amphibians , such as a few neotropical toads of the genus '' atelopus '' . five neotropical amphibians and reptiles , and one snake were named after him .
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