Israel Heymann Jonas (1795-1851) was a German
malacologist
Malacology, from Ancient Greek μαλακός (''malakós''), meaning "soft", and λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study", is the branch of invertebrate zoology that deals with the study of the Mollusca (molluscs or mollusks), the second-largest ...
. He studied medicine at the
Christian-Albrechts-Universität in
Kiel
Kiel ( ; ) is the capital and most populous city in the northern Germany, German state of Schleswig-Holstein. With a population of around 250,000, it is Germany's largest city on the Baltic Sea. It is located on the Kieler Förde inlet of the Ba ...
, Prussia.
Species named by Jonas
The
World Register of Marine Species
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has 104 records of marine taxa named by Jonas. Most of these names have become synonyms, except:
Species named in honor of Jonas
Hombron & Jacquinot naming a genus ''
Jonas
Jonas may refer to:
Geography
* Jonas, Netherlands, Netherlands
* Jonas, Pennsylvania, United States
* Jonas Ridge, North Carolina, United States
Arts, entertainment, and media
* Jonas Brothers, American pop rock band.
** ''Jonas'' (TV serie ...
'' in honor of him; this is a crab genus in the family
Corystidae
Corystidae is a family of crabs, in its own superfamily, Corystoidea. It includes what was once thought to be the oldest Eubrachyuran fossil, '' Hebertides jurassica'', thought to be dating from the Bathonian (Middle Jurassic
The Middle Jura ...
. A number of marine gastropod species use the epithet "jonasii" or ''jonasi'' in his honor.
* ''Arcularia jonasii''
(Dunker, 1846): synonym of ''
Nassarius jonasii''
Dunker, 1846
* ''
Baseodiscus jonasii''
Strand, Hjelmgren & Sundberg, 2005
* ''Buccinum jonasii''
Dunker, 1846: synonym of ''
Nassarius jonasii''
Dunker, 1846
* ''Nassa jonasii''
(Dunker, 1846): synonym of ''
Nassarius jonasii''
Dunker, 1846
* ''
Nassarius jonasii''
Dunker, 1846
* ''Parcanassa jonasii''
(Dunker, 1846): synonym of ''
Nassarius jonasii''
Dunker, 1846
* ''Siphonaria jonasi''
Dunker, 1853: synonym of ''
Siphonaria pectinata''
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Publications
Jonas sometimes also published as "J." H. Jonas.
He studied, together with
Wilhelm Dunker
Wilhelm Dunker, full name Wilhelm Bernhard Rudolph Hadrian Dunker (21 February 1809, Eschwege – 13 March 1885, Marburg) was a German geologist, paleontologist and zoologist (specifically a malacologist).
Wilhelm Dunker studied mining and metal ...
, the "Museum Gruneri", a large collection of species in the bivalve family
Pteriidae
Pteriidae, also called the feather oysters, is a family (biology), family of medium-sized to large saltwater oysters. They are pearl oysters, Marine (ocean), marine bivalve mollusks in the order Pteriida.
Some of the species in this family are i ...
. This study was published as ''Verzeichniß der Conchyliensammlung des verstorbenen Herrn Consul Gruner, welche im Ganzen verkauft werden soll von Bunsen Hausschild 1857. Bremer Druck 1857''.
In 1846 Jonas described the "Rodatz collection". Rodatz collected many mollusks during a number of commercial expeditions from Germany to
Zanzibar
Zanzibar is a Tanzanian archipelago off the coast of East Africa. It is located in the Indian Ocean, and consists of many small Island, islands and two large ones: Unguja (the main island, referred to informally as Zanzibar) and Pemba Island. ...
and
West Africa
West Africa, also known as Western Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa. The United Nations geoscheme for Africa#Western Africa, United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Gha ...
in the period of 184351, and from the
Red Sea
The Red Sea is a sea inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. Its connection to the ocean is in the south, through the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and the Gulf of Aden. To its north lie the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and th ...
in 1845. He had offered his specimens to .
[Jonas, I. H., 1846, Beitrag zur Erklärung der in der Description de l’Égypte abgebildeten, nebst Beschreibung einiger anderer im rothen Meer und den angrenzenden Ländern leben- den Mollusken. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie, 3(4+5+10): 59–64, 65–67, 120–127]
References
Collations of Malacological Significance; American Malacological Society
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1795 births
1851 deaths
German malacologists