Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues


Miguel Trefaut Urbano Rodrigues is a Brazilian herpetologist.
After graduating from the He graduated from the Paris Diderot University he received his Ph.D. from the University of [São Paulo] in 1984. In 1996, he became a professor of biology at the same university and served as director of the Zoological Museum of the University of São Paulo from 1997 to 2001. His research has focused on Brazilian frogs and reptiles.
He has described 53 species of reptiles and amphibians. Several species of reptiles, amphibians, and a fish have been named in his honor, including the frog Cycloramphus migueli.

Taxa named in his honor

Burlemarxia rodriguesii Menezes & Semir, 1991 Cycloramphus migueli Heyer, 1988 Glaphyropoma rodriguesi de Pinna, 1992 Liotyphlops trefauti Freire, Caramaschi & Argolo, 2007 Pantepuisaurus rodriguesi Kok, 2009 Trichomycterus trefauti Wosiacki, 2004