Lipke Bijdeley Holthuis (21 April 1921 – 7 March 2008)
was a Dutch
carcinologist
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, considered one of the "undisputed greats" of carcinology, and "the greatest carcinologist of our time".
Holthuis was born in
Probolinggo
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,
East Java
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and obtained his
doctorate
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from
Leiden University
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on 23 January 1946.
He was appointed the assistant curator of the ''Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie'' (now ''
Naturalis
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'') in
Leiden
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in 1941. He was the most prolific carcinologist of the 20th century, publishing 620 papers (108 of which were in the
Leiden Museum Journals) totalling 12,795 pages which is an average of 185 pages per year and an average of approximately 21 pages per paper. These were published on many groups of
crustacean
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s, their
natural history
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and nomenclature, and the history of carcinology.
This steady stream of publications resulted in the description of 428 new taxa: 2 new families, 5 subfamilies, 83 genera and 338 species. 67 taxa were named after him between 1953 (''
Hippolyte holthuisi'') and 2009 (''
Caridina holthuisi'', ''
Lysmata holthuisi''). However, in Fransen, C.H.J.M., De Grave, S., Ng, P.K.L. 2010, an additional 50 taxa were named after him.
In 1972 Holthuis received an honorary doctorate from the
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
Publication on Holthuis
* Alex Alsemgeest & Charles Fransen
t al. ''In krabbengang door kreeftenboeken. De Bibliotheca Carcinologica L.B. Holthuis''. Leiden, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, 2016.
See also
*
:Taxa named by Lipke Holthuis
References
External links
* A selection of articles published by L.B. Holthuis for the Leiden Museu
1921 births
2008 deaths
20th-century Dutch zoologists
Dutch carcinologists
Indonesian people of Dutch descent
Leiden University alumni
People from Probolinggo
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