
Fredericus Anna Jentink (20 August 1844,
Wymbritseradeel – 4 November 1913,
Leiden
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[Fredericus Anna Jentink (1844 - 1913). In: Notes from the Leyden Museum Vol. 36, 1913. p 254] was a Dutch zoologist.
Biography
In 1875, he became curator at the
Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie
The Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie (National Museum of Natural History) was a museum on the Rapenburg in Leiden, the Netherlands. It was founded in 1820 by Royal Decree from a merger of several existing collections including Temminck's own ...
(today
Naturalis) in
Leiden
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. In 1884 he followed
Hermann Schlegel
Hermann Schlegel (10 June 1804 – 17 January 1884) was a German ornithologist, herpetologist and ichthyologist.
Early life and education
Schlegel was born at Altenburg, the son of a brassfounder. His father collected butterflies, which stimulated ...
as director of the museum and as editor of the journal ''Notes from the Leyden Museum''.
In 1895 he was president of the 3rd International Congress of Zoology in Leiden and he was among the founding members of the
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature
The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) is an organization dedicated to "achieving stability and sense in the scientific naming of animals". Founded in 1895, it currently comprises 26 commissioners from 20 countries.
Orga ...
besides
Philip Lutley Sclater,
Raphaël Blanchard,
Julius Victor Carus, and
Charles Wardell Stiles. Jentink's main research field was the taxonomy of mammals, where he described several
marsupial
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,
bat
Bats are flying mammals of the order Chiroptera (). With their forelimbs adapted as wings, they are the only mammals capable of true and sustained flight. Bats are more agile in flight than most birds, flying with their very long spread-out ...
, and
rodent
Rodents (from Latin , 'to gnaw') are mammals of the Order (biology), order Rodentia ( ), which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and Mandible, lower jaws. About 40% of all mammal specie ...
taxa.
[Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson: The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals JHU Press, 2009, : p 211–212] In 1886, he described the
guenon species ''Cercopithecus signatus'' (sometimes known as Jentink's guenon) on the basis of one deceased specimen which was obtained by the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie from the
Diergaarde Blijdorp in
Rotterdam
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in 1877. The original provenance of this species is still unknown
but alternatively it might be possible that it is a hybrid between the
greater spot-nosed monkey and the
moustached guenon.
[John F. Oates: The Nigerian Guenon, Cercopithecus erythrogaster: Ecological, Behavioral, Systematic and Historical Observations. Folia Primatologica International Journal of Primatology. 1985;45:p 25-43 ] Jentink published the Catalogue ostéologique des mammifères (1887), the Catalogue systématique des mammifères (1892) and Mammals Collected by the Members of the Humboldt Bay and the Merauke River Expeditions:Nova Guinea (1907).
Oldfield Thomas
Michael Rogers Oldfield Thomas (21 February 1858 – 16 June 1929) was a British zoologist.
Career
Thomas worked at the Natural History Museum, London, Natural History Museum on mammals, describing about 2,000 new species and subspecies for ...
named the
Jentink's duiker (1892) and the
Jentink's squirrel (1887) in honor of Fredericus Anna Jentink.
References
1844 births
1913 deaths
Dutch zoologists
Dutch curators
Leiden University alumni
Knights of the Order of the Netherlands Lion
People from Wymbritseradiel
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