South african scientist.
David Eduard van Dijk (14 September 1925 – 6 March 2023) was a South African herpetologist, paleontologist and the author of a number of biology textbooks. Species named for him include the frog, Amietia vandijki (Van Dijk's river frog) (Visser & Channing)., first known only as tadpoles; the fossil plant bug, Australoprosoboloides vandijki (Riek); the plant fossil, "Estcourtia vandijki" (Anderson & Anderson) and the genus Vandijkophrynus (Van Dijk's toads) Van Dijk published in a number of fields including Zoology, Geology, Ichnology and Paleontology over a more than 65 year academic career, w