Fritz Sarasin
Fritz Sarasin and Paul Sarasin during their expedition to Celebes.
Fritz Sarasin, full name Karl Friedrich Sarasin (3 December 1859 – 23 March 1942) was a Swiss naturalist.
He was a second cousin of Paul Sarasin.[1] They made a scientific expedition to Celebes (now Sulawesi).
Taxon named in his honor
Paul and Fritz Sarasin are commemorated in the scientific names of five species of reptiles:
- Amphiesma sarasinorum,
- Correlophus sarasinorum,
- Nessia sarasinorum,
- Pseudorabdion sarasinorum, and
- Sphenomorphus sarasinorum.[2]
And fish:
- Sarasin's goby Mugilogobius sarasinorum is named in the cousins honor.[3]
There are seven species, two genera and one subfamily of harvestmen named after them.
Bibliography
He has published some of scientific works together with Paul Sarasin.
- Sarasin F. & Roux J. (eds.) (1913–1918). "Nova Caledonia. Forschungen in Neu-Caledonien und auf den Loyalty-Inseln. Recherches scientifiques en Nouvelle-Calédonie et aux iles Loyalty". Wiesbaden.
- (1913). A. Zoologie. Volume I.
- (1915). A. Zoologie. Volume II.
- (1923). A. Zoologie. Volume III.
- (1925). A. Zoologie. Volume IV.
- Aus einem glücklichen Leben. Biographische Notizen, Frobenius AG, Basel 1941.
References
- ↑ Coan E. V., Kabat A. R. & Petit R. E. (15 February 2009). 2,400 years of malacology, 6th ed. Archived 2018-10-05 at the Wayback Machine, 830 pp. + 32 pp. [Annex of Collations]. American Malacological Society.
- ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Sarasin", p. 233).
- ↑ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order GOBIIFORMES: Family OXUDERCIDAE (a-o)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
- ↑ International Plant Names Index. Sarasin.
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