Amandus Heinrich Christian Zietz (13 June 1840 – 2 August 1921) was a zoologist and paleontologist born in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, and best known for his work at the South Australian Museum in Adelaide, after arriving in South Australia in 1883.[1]

He and his son Frederick Robert Zietz, also a zoologist, worked on preserving bones from a diprotodon skeleton.[2] Along with E. C. Stirling, also at the South Australian museum, he undertook the direction of the first major palaeontology excavation at Lake Callabonna, where a large series of Diprotodont skeletal material was collected.[3] Zietz was responsible for identifying a hitherto unknown species of shark from Investigator Strait, which became known as Asymbolus vincenti, or Gulf catshark.[4]

He is buried in West Terrace Cemetery in Adelaide.[5]

Works

His publications include:

References

  1. Saunders, Brian (2012). "Waite". Discovery of Australia's Fishes: A History of Australian Ichthyology to 1930. Csiro. pp. 290–316. ISBN 9780643106727.
  2. "Amandus Heinrich Christian Zietz (1890, English, Photograph edition, Portrait Collection)". Trove. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
  3. Vickers-Rich, P. (1993). Wildlife of Gondwana. NSW: Reed. p. 54. ISBN 0730103153.
  4. Asymbolus vincenti
  5. "Amandus Heinrich Christian Zietz". BillionGraves. Retrieved 25 April 2019.


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