Eltio Alegondas Forsten (12 July 1811,
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– 1843,
Ambon Island
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) was a Dutch
naturalist
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.
He studied medicine at
Leiden
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, obtaining his degree in 1836 with a thesis on ''
Cedrela febrifuga
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'', titled "''Dissertatio botanico-pharmaceutico-medica inauguralis de cedrela febrifuga''". In 1838 he became a member of the ''Natuurkundige Commissie'' for the
Dutch East Indies
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, where he would spend the next several years collecting
zoological
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and
botanical
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specimens (
Java
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,
Sulawesi
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,
Ternate
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, Ambon).
Eponymy (birds and reptiles)
*
Forsten's cat snake, ''Boiga forsteni''
*
Forsten's lorikeet, ''Trichoglossus forsteni''
*
Forsten's megapode, ''Megapodius freycinet''
* Forsten's pointed snake, ''
Rabdion forsteni
''Rabdion forsteni'', also known Common name, commonly as Forsten's pointed snake, is a species of snake in the Family (biology), family Colubridae. The species is native to a part of Indonesia.
Etymology
The Specific name (zoology), specific n ...
''
*
Forsten's tortoise
Forsten's tortoise (''Indotestudo forstenii)'', also known Common name, commonly as the Sulawesi tortoise, is a species of tortoise in the Family (biology), family Testudinidae. The species is native to Sulawesi, Sulawesi Island, Indonesia.
Tax ...
, ''Indotestudo forstenii''
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by