Karl Koopman (1 April 1920 – 22 September 1997) was an American
zoologist
Zoology ()The pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon. is the branch of biology that studies the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and ...
with a special interest in bats.
He worked for many years in the
Mammalogy In zoology, mammalogy is the study of mammals – a class of vertebrates with characteristics such as homeothermic metabolism, fur, four-chambered hearts, and complex nervous systems. Mammalogy has also been known as "mastology," "theriology," a ...
Department of the
American Museum of Natural History in New York.
Eponyms
Mammal species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of ...
named after him include ''
Monticolomys koopmani
The Malagasy mountain mouse or Koopman's montane voalavo (''Monticolomys koopmani'') is a rodent within the subfamily Nesomyinae of the family Nesomyidae. It is monotypic within the genus ''Monticolomys'', and is closely related to the big-foote ...
'', ''
Rattus koopmani
Koopman's rat (''Rattus koopmani'') is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.
It is found only on Peleng island, located in the Banggai Islands (''Kepulauan Banggai'') off the southeastern coast of Sulawesi, Indonesia
Indonesia, officia ...
'', and ''
Sturnira koopmanhilli
''Sturnira koopmanhilli'' is a species of leaf-nosed bat found in South America.
Taxonomy
It was described as a new species in 2006. The holotype had been collected in 1991 in Cotacachi Cayapas Ecological Reserve—a nature reserve in Ecuad ...
''.
Also, a reptile species, ''
Anolis koopmani'', is named in his honor.
[Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Koopman", p. 145).]
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1920 births
1997 deaths
20th-century American zoologists
American mammalogists
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