Carl Constantin Platen
Carl Constantin Platen (24 September 1843,
butterflies
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After his medical profession in
taxa, gathered on these expeditions was acquired mostly by Platens friend Wilhelm Blasius for the natural history museum in Braunschweig. A further part was sold to the natural history dealer Wilhelm Schlüter in Saale
. Platen was nearly blind and deaf, when he returned to Germany in 1894 where he lived in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania until his death in 1899.
Legacy
Bird taxa named in Platen's honour include Thapsinillas longirostris platenae. Butterflies named for him are Euploea platenae, Amathuxidia plateni, Amblypodia plateni, Charaxes platenae, Chionaema plateni, Choaspes plateni, Danaus plateni, Prothoe plateni and Troides plateni.
References
- Ludwig Gebhardt: Die Ornithologen Mitteleuropas. AULA-Verlag, Wiebelsheim. 2006 ISBN 3-89104-680-4
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