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European Pond Tortoise
The European pond turtle (''Emys orbicularis''), also called commonly the European pond terrapin and the European pond tortoise, is a species of long-living freshwater turtle in the family Emydidae. The species is endemic to the Western Palearctic. Subspecies The following 14 subspecies are recognized as being valid. *'' Emys orbicularis capolongoi'' – Sardinian pond turtle *'' Emys orbicularis colchica'' – Colchis pond turtle *'' Emys orbicularis eiselti'' – Eiselt's pond turtle *'' Emys orbicularis fritzjuergenobstii'' – Obst's pond turtle *''Emys orbicularis galloitalica'' – Italian pond turtle *'' Emys orbicularis hellenica'' – Western Turkey pond turtle *'' Emys orbicularis hispanica'' – Spanish pond turtle *'' Emys orbicularis iberica'' – Kura Valley pond turtle *''Emys orbicularis ingauna'' - Ligurian pond turle *'' Emys orbicularis lanzai'' – Corsican pond turtle *'' Emys orbicularis luteofusca'' – Central Turkey pond turtle *'' Emys orbicul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy". Many of his writings were in Latin; his name is rendered in Latin as and, after his 1761 ennoblement, as . Linnaeus was the son of a curate and was born in Råshult, in the countryside of Småland, southern Sweden. He received most of his higher education at Uppsala University and began giving lectures in botany there in 1730. He lived abroad between 1735 and 1738, where he studied and also published the first edition of his ' in the Netherlands. He then returned to Sweden where he became professor of medicine and botany at Uppsala. In the 1740s, he was sent on several journeys through Sweden to find and classify plants and animals. In the 1750s and 1760s, he co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Strauch
Alexander Strauch (1 March 1832, in Saint Petersburg – 14 August 1893, in Wiesbaden, Germany) was a Russian naturalist, most notably a herpetologist. In 1861 he started working as a curator of the zoological museum at the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg. From 1879 to 1890 he was director of the museum. He is credited with establishing St. Petersburg as a major world center in the field of herpetology. Taxa named after Strauch Taxa with the specific epithet of ''strauchi'' or ''strauchii'' commemorate his name, five examples being: *'' Blanus strauchi'' ( Bedriaga, 1884) *'' Ctenotus strauchii'' ( Boulenger, 1887) *'' Eremias strauchi'' Kessler, 1878 *'' Gloydius strauchi'' (Bedriaga, 1912) *'' Phrynocephalus strauchi'' Nikolsky, 1899. ''Nota bene'': A Taxon author in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a different genus. His zoologist author abbreviation is Strauch. Selected works * ''Die Vertheilung der Schil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emys Orbicularis Eiselti
''Emys'' is a small genus within the family Emydidae. The genus (''sensu lato''), consisting primarily of freshwater pond turtles, is endemic to Europe. It is the only genus in the Emydidae outside of North America. Species The following two species may be assigned to the genus ''Emys'' (''sensu lato''). ''Nota bene'': A binomial authority In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms, altho ... in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Emys''. References ;Bibliography * * Further reading * Duméril AMC (1805). ''Zoologie analytique, ou méthode naturelle de classification des animaux, rendue plus facile a l'aide de tableaux synoptiques.'' Paris: Allais. (H.L. Perronneau, printer). xxxiii + 544 pp. (''Emys'', new genus, pp. 76 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Jürgen Obst
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Emys Orbicularis Capolongoi
''Emys'' is a small genus within the family Emydidae. The genus (''sensu lato''), consisting primarily of freshwater pond turtles, is endemic to Europe. It is the only genus in the Emydidae outside of North America. Species The following two species may be assigned to the genus ''Emys'' (''sensu lato''). ''Nota bene'': A binomial authority In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms, altho ... in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Emys''. References ;Bibliography * * Further reading * Duméril AMC (1805). ''Zoologie analytique, ou méthode naturelle de classification des animaux, rendue plus facile a l'aide de tableaux synoptiques.'' Paris: Allais. (H.L. Perronneau, printer). xxxiii + 544 pp. (''Emys'', new genus, pp. 76 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorenz Müller
Lorenz Müller (18 February 1868 in Mainz – 1 February 1953 in Munich) was a German herpetologist. Professor Lorenz Müller was known for his studies on the Balearic Islands species of the genus ''Podarcis'' (wall lizards) during the 1920s, in which he described several new subspecies, including the now extinct Ratas Island lizard, ''Podarcis lilfordi rodriquezi''. Together with his colleague Professor Robert Mertens he made several studies about European amphibians and reptiles. Lorenz Müller died at 84 from a bronchitis Bronchitis is inflammation of the bronchi (large and medium-sized airways) in the lungs that causes coughing. Bronchitis usually begins as an infection in the nose, ears, throat, or sinuses. The infection then makes its way down to the bronchi. .... A species of South American lizard, '' Liolaemus lorenzmuelleri'', is named in his honor. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Mertens
Robert Friedrich Wilhelm Mertens (1 December 1894 – 23 August 1975) was a German herpetologist. Several taxa of reptiles are named after him.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii. ("Mertens", p. 176; "Robert", p. 223; "Robert Mertens", p. 223). He postulated Mertensian mimicry. Mertens was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He moved to Germany in 1912, where he earned a doctorate in zoology from the University of Leipzig in 1915. During World War I, he served in the German army. Mertens worked at the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt for many years, beginning as an assistant in 1919, and retiring as director emeritus in 1960. He also became a lecturer at Goethe University Frankfurt in 1932, and became a Professor there in 1939. Both jobs provided him with ample time for extensive travel and the study of lizards. He collected specimens in 30 countries. During World War II, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Mikhailovich Nikolsky
Alexander Mikhailovich Nikolsky (Russian: Александр Михайлович Никольский; February 18, 1858 – December 8, 1942) was a Russian and Ukrainian zoologist born in Astrakhan. From 1877 to 1881, he studied at the University of St. Petersburg, earning his doctorate several years later in 1887. From 1881 to 1891, he took part in numerous expeditions to Siberia, the Caucasus, Persia, Japan, et al. In 1887 he became an associate professor in St. Petersburg, later becoming director of the herpetology department at the Zoological Museum of the Academy of Sciences (1895). In 1903 he relocated as a professor to the Kharkiv University. In 1919 he was elected a member at the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Among his written works were ''Herpetologia Caucasica'' (1913), and volumes on reptiles and amphibians that were part of the series "Fauna of Russia and Adjacent Countries". He is the taxonomic authority of 26 reptile species. The viper '' Vipera nikolski ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Dürigen
Eduard Bruno Dürigen (1 February 1853 – 12 February 1930) was a German science popularizer, teacher, animal keeper, herpetologist, and poultry breed specialist. Dürigen was born in Erdmannsdorf (now part of Augustusburg) near Chemnitz in Saxony to Wilhelm Eduard (born 1817), a master saddler and pigeon fancier from Oberlichtenau who had purchased a home in 848 and married Clara Auguste Thieme in 1849. While just eleven, the young Dürigen kept pigeons and took an interest in other birds as well. He trained in Zschopau as a teacher and was appointed in the Erzgebirge area and then to Dresden where he met Anton Reichenow. In 1874 he taught at a grammar school in Berlin-Steglitz and at the same time attended classes in botany and zoology at Berlin University. Along with Karl Ruß, he founded ''Isis'' a magazine for science in 1876. He quit editing in 1884 for unknown reasons and in 1890 he became an editor for an aquarium and terrarium magazine. He published a book on the amphibia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
