Douglas A. Rossman is a U.S. herpetologist specializing in Garter snakes. He studied at the University of Florida, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in 1961.
He was a professor of zoology at the Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
He co-authored The Amphibians and Reptiles of Louisiana (ISBN 0-8071-2077-4), and also The Garter Snakes: Evolution and Ecology (ISBN 0-8061-2820-8).
His wife, Nita Jane Rossman (born 1936), also has an interest in herpetology and even had a subspecies named after her: Thamnophis sauritus nitae, a subspecies of the Eastern Ribbon Snake. She had collected the holotype for this subspecies on a field trip with her husband for his dissertation research, and he named it in her honor.
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