Shelley Burgin is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Western Sydney, New South Wales (NSW), Australia. In the mid-1970s, as a mature-aged student, she undertook an undergraduate degree in Environmental Studies at Griffith University, Queensland. Her Masters thesis (University of Papua New Guinea) focused on crocodiles and her PhD thesis (Macquarie University) was on the taxonomic and phylogenetic relationships of Lampropholis. In 2001, she was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Zoological Society of NSW and in 2018 as a Member (General Division) of the Order of Australia. She has in excess of 200 publications. Harold Heatwole is Adjunct Professor at the University of New England, NSW, Australia, and Professor Emeritus at North Carolina State University, USA. He has four doctorates and 376 scientific publications to his credit and edited Ecology in Australia (7 volumes) and Amphibian Biology (13 volumes). He was President of the Great Barrier Reef Committee (19801982), Foundation President of the Australian Coral Reef Society (19821983), and Editor-in-Chief of Integrative and Comparative Biology (20102014).