Jeanette Covacevich
(1945-2015)
Australian herpetologist and museum curator
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Jeanette Adelaide Covacevich AM (1945–2015) was a herpetologist in Queensland, Australia. As a senior curator of vertebrates at the Queensland Museum, she discovered and studied many reptiles and frogs in Queensland. Covacevich is most famous for describing the Inland Taipan snake (Oxyuranus microlepidotus), the world's most venomous land snake. In addition, she described over thirty new species and genera including the Cape York striped blind snake (otherwise known as Ramphotyphlops chamodracaena), the Nangura spinosa (Nangur spiny skink), and the Phyllurus caudiannulatus (Bulburin leaf-tailed gecko).
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1945 Innisfail, Queensland, Australia
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2015 (aged 69) Cairns, Queensland, Australia
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