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Richard Highton
American zoologist
browse: zoologists, biologists
dead
- born
- 1927
- died
- 2025
- age at death
- 97
- known for
- zoologist, biologist, herpetologist
1927 β 2025
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Richard Highton was an American herpetologist, an expert on the biological classification of woodland salamanders.
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