Pieter Bleeker
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Pieter Bleeker | |
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Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies | |
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Pieter Bleeker (10 July 1819 – 24 January 1878) was a Dutch
medical doctor, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. He was famous for the Atlas Ichthyologique des Indes Orientales Néêrlandaises, his monumental work on the fishes of East Asia
published between 1862 and 1877.
Life and work
Bleeker was born on 10 July 1819 in
honoris causa (Leyden University, 1846; Utrecht University, 1849).[2]
After his return to the
Smithsonian
republished the work in 10 volumes.
Bleeker published more than 500 papers on ichthyology, describing 511 new genera and 1,925 new species.
He also worked in
In 1855, he became correspondent of the
Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies.[1]
Bleeker died on 24 January 1878 in The Hague.[1]
Taxa named in his honor
Fish named after him include:
- The Stone Loach Triplophysa bleekeri (Sauvage & Dabry de Thiersant, 1874)
- Argyrops bleekeri Oshima, 1927[8]
- Scaridae.
Taxa described by him
See also
References
- ^ a b c d "Pieter Bleeker (1819 - 1878)". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 15 July 2020.
- ^ PMID 21560380. (in French).
- ^ "Naturalis Topstukken". topstukken.naturalis.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2021-04-08.
- ^ Bleeker P (1860). "Over de Reptiliën-fauna van Sumatra". Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië. 21: 284–298. (in Dutch).
- ^ The Reptile Database
- ^ Bleeker P (1860). Reptilien van Agam. Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indie, Batavia 20: 325-329. (in Dutch).
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2014). "Osteochilus bleekeri" in FishBase. November 2014 version.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order SPARIFORMES: Families LETHRINIDAE, NEMIPTERIDAE and SPARIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order LABRIFORMES: Family LABRIDAE (a-h)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
Further reading
- ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Bleeker", p. 28).
- P. Bleeker, Levensbericht in: Jaarboek, 1877, Amsterdam, pp. 5-159 (Autobiography of Bleeker with an introduction by Pieter Harting). (in Dutch).
- Bleeker P, van Oijen MJ, Loots GM, van Limburg FJ (2009). "A precursor of the fish of the Indian Archipelago. Part 1: Siluri". Zoologische Mededelingen. 83: 1–317.
- Norman D, Whitehead PJ (1984). "The Bleeker/Günther letters and the sale of Bleeker specimens to the British Museum". Zoologische Mededelingen. 58: 295–312.
- Whitehead PJ, Boeseman M, Wheeler AC (1966). "The types of Bleeker's Indo-Pacific Elopoid and Clupeoid Fishes". Zoologische Verhandelingen. 84: 1–152.
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