Heinrich Kuhl
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Heinrich Kuhl (17 September 1797 – 14 September 1821) was a German naturalist and zoologist.
Kuhl was born in Hanau (Hesse, Germany). Between 1817 and 1820, he was the assistant of professor Th. van Swinderen, docent of natural history at the University of Groningen in Groningen (the Netherlands). In 1817, he published a monograph on bats, and in 1819, he published a survey of the parrots, Conspectus psittacorum. He also published the first monograph on the petrels, and a list of all the birds illustrated in Daubenton's Planches Enluminées and with his friend Johan Coenraad van Hasselt (1797–1823) Beiträge zur Zoologie und vergleichenden Anatomie ("Contributions to Zoology and Comparative Anatomy") that were published at Frankfurt-am-Main, 1820.
In 1820, he became assistant to Coenraad Jacob Temminck at the Leiden Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie. He then travelled to Java, then part of the colonial Netherlands East Indies, with his friend van Hasselt, to study the animals of the island, sending back to the museum at Leiden 200 skeletons, 200 mammal skins of 65 species, 2000 bird skins, 1400 fish,<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> 300 reptiles and amphibians, and many insects and crustaceans.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
He described many new species and new genera of amphibians and reptiles.<ref>"Kuhl". The Reptile Database. </ref><ref name=Frost>Template:Cite web</ref>
In 1821, he died in Buitenzorg (now Bogor) of a liver infection brought on by the climate and overexertion. He had been less than a year in Java. Johan van Hasselt continued his work collecting specimens, but died two years later. The partners are buried in a single grave in the Botanical Garden, Bogor, marked with a small column.<ref>Huylebrouck J (2014). "Viviparous Halfbeaks of the family Zenarchopteridae". Amazonas: Freshwater Aquariums & Tropical Discovery. illustration, p. 23.</ref>
Legacy
Several species have been named to commemorate his work<ref name="Beolens et al. 2013"/> as naturalist and zoologist:
Fishes
- Blue-spotted stingray or Kuhl's stingray, Neotrygon kuhlii<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Shortfin devil ray, Mobula kuhlii<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Kuhl's loach or kuhli loach, Pangio kuhlii<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Kuhlia, a genus of marine fish, flagtails or aholeholes<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Herpetofauna
- Kuhl's creek frog or large-headed frog, Limnonectes kuhlii, found in Southeast Asia<ref name="Beolens et al. 2013"/>
- Kuhl's forest dragon, Gonocephalus kuhlii, a lizard found in Indonesia<ref name="EDR">Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. Template:ISBN. ("Kuhl", p. 147).</ref>
- Kuhl's flying gecko, Gekko kuhli, a gecko found in Southeast Asia<ref name="EDR"/>
Birds
- Rimatara lorikeet or Kuhl's lorikeet, Vini kuhlii lorikeet in islands of the South Pacific
Mammals
- Axis kuhlii, Bawean deer
- Callithrix kuhlii
- Eptesicus kuhli, synonym of Eptesicus nilssonii
- Pipistrellus kuhlii, Kuhl's pipistrelle
- Sciurillus pusillus kuhlii
- Scotophilus kuhlii
Plants
See also
References
Further reading
- Walters, Michael (2003). A Concise History of Ornithology. New Haven: Yale University Press. Template:ISBN.
External links
- BHL Text of Beiträge zur Zoologie und vergleichenden Anatomie. (in German).