Paulus Edward Pieris Deraniyagala
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Paulus Edward Pieris Deraniyagala (1900–1976) was a Sri Lankan
zoologist
, and artist.
Early life and education
He was born in
Oxbridge MA in 1923. He entered Harvard University for a year, where he was awarded a Master of Arts in 1924.[citation needed
]
Career
He specialised in fauna and human fossils of the
Vidyodaya University
.
He described several
, including:- Sri Lankan rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sinhaleyus) in 1936 for a fossil found in Ratnapura District[1]
- Sri Lankan hippopotamus (Hexaprotodon sinhaleyus) in 1937[2]
- Panthera tigris sudanensis was named in 1951 for a tiger skin that he saw in a Cairo bazaar. When he asked the shop owner for the origin of this specimen, he was told that the animal was shot in Sudan.[4] Vratislav Mazák thought it likely that the skin was smuggled from Iran or Turkey to Egypt and commented "the situation is half-humorous, half-ironic".[5]
- Javan elephant (Elephas maximus sondaicus) was described in 1955 based on an illustration of a carving on the Buddhist monument of Borobudur in Java.[6] It is considered synonymous with the Indian elephant (E. m. indicus).[7]
- Balangoda Man (Homo sapiens balangodensis) in 1955[citation needed]
- Sri Lankan rhinoceros (Rhinoceros kagavena) in 1956[citation needed]
- Sri Lankan gaur (Bibos sinhaleyus) in 1962[2]
During his trips to China, he studied the
better source needed
]
He served as president of the
Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society from 1952 to 1955.[9]
Deraniyagala is commemorated in the
Lankascincus deraniyagalae, and Nessia deraniyagalai.[10]
Family
He was married to Prini Molamure; their son
archeology
.
See also
References[11]
- ^ a b Deraniyagala, P. E. P. (1939). "Some fossil animals from Ceylon, Part II". Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. 34: 231–239.
- ^ a b Deraniyagala, P. E. P. (1963). "Some mammals of the extinct Ratnapura Fauna of Ceylon Part V, with reconstructions of the hippopotamus and the gaur". Spolia Zeylanica. 30: 5–25.
- ^ Manamendra-Arachchi, K.; Pethiyagoda, R.; Dissanayake, R.; Meegaskumbura, M. (2005). "A second extinct big cat from the late Quaternary of Sri Lanka". The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Supplement No. 12: 423–434.
- ^ Deraniyalaga, P. E. P. (1951). "Does the tiger inhabit the Sudan?". Spolia Zeylanica. 26: 159.
- ^ Mazák, V. (1980). Velké kočky a gepardi. Praha: Státní zemědělské nakladatelství.
- ^ Deraniyagala, P. E. P. (1955). Some Extinct Elephants, Their Relatives and the Two Living Species. Colombo: Ceylon Natural History Museum.
- OCLC 62265494.
- ^ "Deraniyagala". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ^ "Past Presidents". Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka. 18 November 2009. Retrieved 7 January 2017.
- ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Deraniyagala", p. 70).
- ^ මහාචාර්ය පී. ඊ. පී. දැරණියගල පූර්විකාව (Prof. P. E. P. Deraniyagala), retrieved 2023-07-08
External links
- Genealogy of the Deraniyagala family, including a photo of Dr. Paul E. P. Deraniyagala
- Dr. Paul E. P. Deraniyagala and his son's work, including two drawings by the former
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