Israel Heymann Jonas (1795-1851) was a German

malacologist Malacology is the branch of invertebrate zoology that deals with the study of the Mollusca (mollusks or molluscs), the second-largest phylum of animals in terms of described species after the arthropods. Mollusks include snails and slugs, clams, ...

. He studied medicine at the

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, Prussia.

Species named by Jonas

The

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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 ''

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'' 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 species was s ...

. A number of marine gastropod species use the epithet "jonasii" or ''jonasi'' in his honor. * ''Arcularia jonasii'' (Dunker, 1846): synonym of ''

Nassarius jonasii ''Nassarius'', common name nassa mud snails (USA) or dog whelks (UK), is a genus of minute to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Nassariidae.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2010). Nassarius Duméril, 1806. In: Bouchet, P ...

'' Dunker, 1846 * '' Baseodiscus jonasii'' Strand, Hjelmgren & Sundberg, 2005 * ''Buccinum jonasii'' Dunker, 1846: synonym of ''

'' Dunker, 1846 * ''Nassa jonasii'' (Dunker, 1846): synonym of ''

'' Dunker, 1846 * ''

'' Dunker, 1846 * ''Parcanassa jonasii'' (Dunker, 1846): synonym of ''

'' Dunker, 1846 * ''Siphonaria jonasi'' Dunker, 1853: synonym of ''

Siphonaria pectinata ''Siphonaria pectinata'', common name the striped false limpet, is a species of air-breathing sea snail or false limpet, a marine heterobranch gastropod mollusc in the family Siphonariidae. Taxonomic status ''Siphonaria pectinata'' (Linnaeu ...

'' (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 ...

, the "Museum Gruneri", a large collection of species in the bivalve family

Pteriidae Pteriidae, also called the feather oysters, is a family of medium-sized to large saltwater clams. They are pearl oysters, marine bivalve molluscs in the order Pteriida. Some of the species in this family are important economically as the sourc ...

. 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

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and

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in the period of 184351, and from the

Red Sea The Red Sea ( ar, البحر الأحمر - بحر القلزم, translit=Modern: al-Baḥr al-ʾAḥmar, Medieval: Baḥr al-Qulzum; or ; Coptic: ⲫⲓⲟⲙ ⲛ̀ϩⲁϩ ''Phiom Enhah'' or ⲫⲓⲟⲙ ⲛ̀ϣⲁⲣⲓ ''Phiom ǹšari''; ...

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
{{DEFAULTSORT:Jonas, Israel Heymann 1795 births 1851 deaths German malacologists