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Wilhelm Peters

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This article is about the German explorer. For the Norwegian painter, see Wilhelm Peters (painter).
Wilhelm Peters
Born(1815-04-22)22 April 1815
Koldenbüttel, Duchy of Schleswig
Died20 April 1883(1883-04-20) (aged 67)
Berlin, Germany
NationalityGerman
Known forExplorer, zoologist
Peters' keeled plated lizard (Tracheloptychus petersi)

Wilhelm Karl Hartwich (or Hartwig) Peters (22 April 1815 – 20 April 1883) was a German naturalist and explorer.

He was assistant to the anatomist Johannes Peter Müller and later became curator of the Berlin Zoological Museum. Encouraged by Müller and the explorer Alexander von Humboldt, Peters travelled to Mozambique via Angola in September 1842, exploring the coastal region and the Zambesi River. He returned to Berlin with an enormous collection of natural history specimens, which he then described in Naturwissenschaftliche Reise nach Mossambique... in den Jahren 1842 bis 1848 ausgeführt (1852–1882). The work was comprehensive in its coverage, dealing with mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, river fish, insects and botany. He replaced Martin Lichtenstein as curator of the museum in 1858, and in the same year he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In a few years, he greatly increased the Berlin Museum's herpetological collection to a size comparable to those of Paris and London. Herpetology was Peters' main interest, and he described 122 new genera and 649 species from around the world.[1][2] Peters also described at least one new fish species, the piranha Serrasalmus irritans, Peters 1877, based on a specimen reported as from San Fernando de Apure, Venezuela.

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Eponyms

Wilhelm Peters is commemorated in the scientific names of several species:

Mammals, including

Reptiles, including

Fish

Plants

Geographic

Author abbreviation

Sometimes, W. Peters is used to prevent confusion with herpetologists Günther Peters and James A. Peters.

Family

His older brother was the German-born American Astronomer Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters.[7]

Works

See also: Category:Taxa named by Wilhelm Peters


See also

References

  1. ^ Adler, Kraig (1989). Contributions to the History of Herpetology. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles. ISBN 978-0-916984-19-9.
  2. ^ "George Glazer Gallery - Antique Monkey Prints - Peters Monkey Studies". www.georgeglazer.com. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
  3. ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 204–205. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5.
  4. ^ Flora of Mozambique: Species information: Nymphaea nouchali var. petersiana. (n.d.). Retrieved January 16, 2024, from https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=123470
  5. ^ Nymphaea petersiana | CasaBio. (n.d.). Retrieved January 16, 2024, from https://casabio.org/taxa/nymphaea-petersiana
  6. ^ "Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland". Geological Survey of Denmark. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
  7. ^ Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evang.-Luth. Kirche, Kirchenkreis Nordfriesland, Koldenbüttel, Taufen 1779-1873
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