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Opisthotropis Andersonii
Anderson's stream snake (''Opisthotropis andersonii''), also known Common name, commonly as Anderson's mountain keelback,Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Opisthotropis andersonii'', p. 8; ''O. maxwelli'', p. 171). is a species of snake in the Family (biology), family Colubridae. The species is native to Asia Etymology The specific name (zoology), specific name, ''andersonii'', is in honor of Scottish herpetologist John Anderson (zoologist), John Anderson. Geographic range ''O. andersonii'' is found in Hong Kong and Vietnam. www.reptile-database.org. Habitat The preferred natural habitats of ''O. andersonii'' are forest and freshwater wetlands, at altitudes of . Description Dorsum (anatomy), Dorsally, ''O. andersonii'' is blackish olive. Ventrally it is whitish, except for the chin and Labial scales, lower labials which are brown. The snout is short, broad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Albert Boulenger
George Albert Boulenger (19 October 1858 – 23 November 1937) was a Belgian-British zoologist who described and gave scientific names to over 2,000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles, and amphibians. Boulenger was also an active botanist during the last 30 years of his life, especially in the study of roses. Life Boulenger was born in Brussels, Belgium, the only son of Gustave Boulenger, a Belgian public notary, and Juliette Piérart, from Valenciennes. He graduated in 1876 from the Free University of Brussels (1834–1969), Free University of Brussels with a degree in natural sciences, and worked for a while at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, as an assistant naturalist studying amphibians, reptiles, and fishes. He also made frequent visits during this time to the ''National Museum of Natural History (France), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle'' in Paris and the Natural History Museum, London, British Museum in London. Boulenger develop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chin Shield
Chin shields or chinshields, genials scales on a snake are scales found on the underside of the snake's head towards the anterior and touching the lower labial scales. Chin shields to the front of the snake (towards the snout) are called anterior chin shields while those to the rear of the snake (towards the tail) are called posterior chin shields. See also * Snake scales. * Scale (zoology) In zoology, a scale (; ) is a small rigid plate (animal anatomy), plate made out of keratin that grows out of Vertebrate animals' skin to provide protection. In lepidopterans (butterflies and moths), scales are plates on the surface of the insec ... References Snake scales {{Snake-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Günther
Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther , also Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther (3October 18301February 1914), was a German-born British zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. Günther is ranked the second-most productive reptile taxonomist (after George Albert Boulenger) with more than 340 reptile species described. Early life and career Günther was born in Esslingen in Swabia ( Württemberg). His father was a ''Stiftungs-Commissar'' in Esslingen and his mother was Eleonora Nagel. He initially schooled at the Stuttgart Gymnasium. His family wished him to train for the ministry of the Lutheran Church for which he moved to the University of Tübingen. A brother shifted from theology to medicine, and he, too, turned to science and medicine at Tübingen in 1852. His first work was "''Ueber den Puppenzustand eines Distoma''" (On the pupal state of ''Distoma''). He graduated in medicine with an M.D. from Tübingen in 1858, the same year in which he published a handbook ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lin Luo
LIN or LIN may refer to: People *Lin (surname) (normally ), a Chinese surname * Lin (''The King of Fighters''), Chinese assassin character *Lin Chow Bang, character in Fat Pizza *Lin (NouerA) (Chinese name Lin Hanzhong Korean name Lim Hanjung), a Member of boygroup NouerA Places *Lin, Iran, a village in Mazandaran Province *Lin, Korçë, village in Pogradec municipality, Albania * Lin County, Henan, now Linzhou, China *Lin County, Shanxi, in China *Lincolnshire, Chapman code LIN Transport * Linate Airport, Milan, Italy * Linlithgow railway station, West Lothian, Scotland Other uses * LIN Media, a US TV broadcaster * Lingala language, a Bantu language of central Africa * Local Interconnect Network, for vehicle computers * ''lin.'', an abbreviation for linear See also * Linn (other) * Lyn (other) * Lynn (given name) Lynn or Lynne is a predominantly feminine given name in English-speaking countries. It is now more popular as a middle name than as a first nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jian Wang (herpetologist)
Wang Jian or Jian Wang may refer to: * Wang Jian (Qin) (王翦; fl. 220s BC), Qin general * Qi Wang Jian (齊王建; r. 264–221 BC), the last king of Qi. * Wang Jian (Southern Qi) (王儉; 452–489), Liu Song and Southern Qi official * Wang Jian (poet) (王建; 767–830), Tang dynasty poet * Wang Jian (Former Shu) (王建; 847–918), founding emperor of Former Shu * Wang Jian (17th-century painter) (王鑒; 1598–1677), painter during the Ming and Qing dynasties * Wang Jian (geneticist) (汪建; born 1954), Chinese geneticist and biotechnology entrepreneur * Jian Wang (contemporary painter) (王健; born 1958), U.S.-based Chinese painter * Wang Jian (businessman) (王健; 1961–2018), co-founder of Hainan Airlines and HNA Group * Wang Jian (computer scientist) (王坚; born 1962), Chinese computer scientist * Jian Wang (cellist) (王健; born 1968), U.K.-based Chinese cellist * Wang Jian (powerlifter), Chinese powerlifter * Wang Jian (table tennis) (王健), Chinese table ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qiang Guo
__NOTOC__ Qiang may refer to: Culture *Qiang (name), a Chinese name, including a list of people with the name, or an alternate transliteration of Chinese surname Jiang (surname) (彊/强) *Qiang people, an ethnic group in China *Qiang (historical people) various non-Chinese groups referred to in Chinese historical literature *Qiangic languages, a subfamily of the Tibeto-Burman family spoken in Sichuan and Tibet Autonomous Region Geography * Qiang la, an Indian transliteration of Changla Military *Qiang (spear), a type of Chinese spear See also * Qian (other) * Jiang (other) * Chiang (other) Chiang may mean: * Chiang, a variant spelling of several Chinese surnames commonly spelled Jiang ** ** * Chi'ang, variant spelling of the ancient Qiang (historical people) () * Chi'ang, variant spelling of the modern Qiang people () in Wenchuan ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malcolm Arthur Smith
Malcolm Arthur Smith (1875 in New Malden, Surrey – 1958 in Ascot) was a herpetologist and physician working in the Malay Peninsula. Early life Smith was interested in reptiles and amphibians from an early age. After completing a degree in medicine and surgery in London in 1898, he left for the then Kingdom of Siam (today Thailand) as a doctor to the British Embassy in Bangkok. In 1921, he married Eryl Glynne of Bangor, who as well as being medically trained, made significant collections of ferns from Thailand and later worked at RBG Kew. She was killed in a car crash near Bangkok in 1930. The couple had three children including the mountaineer Cymryd "Cym" Smith, also killed in a road accident. Eryl was the elder sister of the mountaineer and plant pathologist Mary Dilys Glynne. Work Smith went on to become the physician in the royal court of Siam and was a close confidant and a doctor to the royal family. He published his observations on the reptiles and amphibians during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
