Eduard Friedrich Eversmann

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Eduard Friedrich Eversmann
University of Dorpat
Occupations
  • Biologist
  • explorer

Alexander Eduard Friedrich Eversmann (23 January 1794 – 14 April 1860) was a Prussian

explorer
.

Early life and education

Eversmann was born in

Urals, collecting specimens and sending them to Hinrich Lichtenstein
at the university of Berlin.

Career

Eversmann had long planned to travel into

university of Kazan. During the next thirty years he wrote numerous publications and is considered the pioneer of research into the flora and fauna of the southeast steppes of Russia between the Volga
and the Urals.

His name is commemorated in a number of birds, such as

Eversmann's rustic. A Russian entomological magazine is named Eversmannia.[2]

In the scientific field of herpetology he is best known for having described two new species of lizards, Darevskia praticola and Darevskia saxicola.[3] A species of lizard, Crossobamon eversmanni, is named in his honor.[4]

Works

  • 1832. Lepidopterorum species nonnullae novae Gubernium Orenburgense incolentes. Nouvelles Memoires de la Societe imperiela des Naturalistes de Moscou. 2: 347–354, 2 cpls.
  • 1841. Nachricht uber einige noch unbekannte Schmetterlinge des ostlichen Russlands. Bull. Soc. imp. Nat. Moscou 14(l): 18–33, 1 cpl.
  • Eversmann, Eduard (1847). "Fauna Hymenopterologica Volgo-Uralensis I". Bulletin de la Société impériale des naturalistes de Moscou (in Latin). 20 (1): 3–68. (families Tenthredinidae and Uroceratae)
  • 1848. Beschreibung einiger neuen Falter Russlands. Bull. Soc. imp. Nat. Moscou. 21 (3): 205–232.
  • Eversmann, Eduard (1849). "Fauna Hymenopterologica Volgo-Uralensis II". Bulletin de la Société impériale des naturalistes de Moscou (in Latin). 22 (3): 359–436. (family Sphegidae)
  • 1851. Description de quelques nouvelles espèces de Lépidoptères de la Russie. Bull. Soc. imp. Nat. Moscou. 24 (2): 610–644.
  • 1854. Beiträge zur Lepidopterologie Russlands. Bull. Soc. imp. Nat. Moscou. 27 (3): 174–205, 1 pl.
The standard author abbreviation Eversm. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[5]

References

  1. ^ Eversmann's Redstart
  2. ^ See Russkiy Wikipedia
  3. ^ "Eversmann". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  4. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5
    . ("Eversmann", p. 86).
  5. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Eversm.

External links

Further reading

  • Mearns, Barbara; Mearns, Richard (1988). Biographies for Birdwatchers: The Lives of Those Commemorated in Western Palearctic Bird Names. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Academic Press. 464 pp.
    ISBN 0-12-487422-3
    .
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