Djoko Tjahjono Iskandar (born 1950) is an Indonesian herpetologist who studies the amphibians of Southeast Asia and Australasia. He is a professor of biosystematics and ecology at Bandung Institute of Technology in West Java, Indonesia.
Iskandar has been the first to describe many species of amphibian, including the Bornean flat-headed frog (Barbourula kalimantanensis) in 1978, and, in 2014, Limnonectes larvaepartus, the only known frog that directly births tadpoles. He is the author of The Amphibians of Java and Bali. The monotypic banded watersnake genus Djokoiskandarus is named in his honour, as are several species of lizard and frog.
Taxa named in his honour
Species described
- Ansonia glandulosa <small>Iskandar & Mumpuni, 2004</small>
- Barbourula kalimantanensis <small>Iskandar, 1978</small>
- Boiga hoeseli <small>Ramadhan, Iskandar & Subasri, 2010</small>
- Calamaria banggaiensis <small>Koch, Arida, Mcguire, Iskandar & Böhme, 2009</small>
- Cyrtodactylus batik <small>Iskandar, Rachmansah & Umilaela, 2011</small>
- Cyrtodactylus nuaulu <small>Oliver, Edgar, Mumpuni, Iskandar & Lilley, 2009</small>
- Cyrtodactylus wallacei <small>Hayden, et al., 2008</small>
- Eutropis grandis <small>Howard, Gillespie, Riyanto, Iskandar, 2007</small>
- Hemiphyllodactylus engganoensis <small>Grismer, Riyanto, Iskandar & McGuire, 2014</small>
- Hylarana eschatia <small>(Inger, Stuart, & Iskandar, 2009)</small>
- Hylarana megalonesa <small>(Inger, Stuart & Iskandar, 2009)</small>
- Hylarana parvacola <small>(Inger, Stuart & Iskandar, 2009)</small>
- Hylarana rufipes <small>(Inger, Stuart & Iskandar, 2009)</small>
- Ingerana rajae <small>Iskandar, Bickford, Arifin, 2011</small>
- Kalophrynus minusculus <small>Iskandar, 1998</small>
- Limnonectes kadarsani <small>Iskandar, Boeadi & Sancoyo, 1996</small>
- Limnonectes larvaepartus <small>Iskandar, Evans & McGuire, 2014</small>
- Limnonectes sisikdagu <small>McLeod, Horner, Husted, Barley & Iskandar, 2011</small>
- Litoria megalops <small>(Richards & Iskandar, 2006)</small>
- Litoria purpureolata <small>Oliver, Richards, Tjaturadi & Iskandar, 2007</small>
- Litoria wapogaensis <small>Richards & Iskandar, 2001</small>
- Occidozyga tompotika <small>Iskandar, Arifin & Rachmansah, 2011</small>
- Oreophryne atrigularis <small>Günther, Richards & Iskandar, 2001</small>
- Oreophryne furu <small>Günther, Richards, Tjaturadi, and Iskandar, 2009</small>
- Oreophryne minuta <small>Richards & Iskandar, 2000</small>
- Oreophryne wapoga <small>Günther, Richards & Iskandar, 2001</small>
- Xenophrys parallela <small>(Inger & Iskandar, 2005)</small>
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