Amanda Crnkovic Lewis, M. S.

  M. S., LSU Health Science Center-Shreveport

  Assistant to the Director, Red River Watershed Management   Institute

  Office: SC 121C

  Phone: 797-5215

  Fax: 797-5222

  E-mail: amanda.crnkovic@lsus.edu

  Recent Teaching Assignments:

  Bios 110 General Biology

  Bios 222 General Zoology

  Research Interests:

  A biodiversity survey of the Red River Watershed Education and   Research Park: a survey of the fish, amphibians, reptiles, waterbirds,   mammals, and benthic macroinvertebrates occurring in the park and   adjacent areas.

  Systematics of the African gecko, Lygodactylus picturatus.

  A systematic study of the evolutionary relationships among the species   comprising the genus Pyxicephalus.

  African Frog Toe Biters: Predaceous Diving Beetle Larvae (Coleoptera:   Dytiscidae) Found Attached to Specimens of Pyxicephalus (Anura:   Ranidae).

  Selected Publications:

   Crnkovic, A. 2002. Dynamic changes in a geographic distribution brought    about by radical habitat destruction. Proc. Louisiana Acad. Sci. 63: 44-46.

  Crnkovic, A. 2003. The Discovery of the Northern Long-eared   Myotis, Myotis septentrionalis (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae)   in Louisiana. The Southwestern Naturalist 48 (4) 715-717.

  Hardy, L. M., A. C. Crnkovic, and L. R. Raymond. 2005.   Geographic distribution. Hemidactylus tursicus.   Herpetological Review 36 (2) 201-2.

  Hardy, L. M. and Crnkovic A. C. 2006. Diet of amphibians and   reptiles from the Engare Ondare River Region of Central   Kenya, during the Dry Season. African Journal of Herpetology,   55(2):143-159.