Willy Wolterstorff

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Willy Georg Wolterstorff (16 June 1864 in

herpetologist
.

As a child he lost his hearing due to disease, thus finding it necessary to

University of Halle. At Halle he also received training as a curator
.

In 1889 he became an assistant to

mineralogical-geological institute at Erlangen, and two years later was appointed curator at the Museum für Naturkunde und Vorgeschichte (museum of natural history and prehistory) in Magdeburg
. After his retirement in 1929, he remained at the Magdeburg museum, performing important functions as a volunteer.

Wolterstorff is known for scientific research of "lower vertebrates", in particular investigations involving the

newts.[1]

Tribute

The recently extinct

Mertensiella (1925).[2]

Wolterstorff is also commemorated in the scientific name of a species of gecko, Urocotyledon wolterstorffi [3]

And with the Killifish Austrolebias wolterstorffi (C. G. E. Ahl, 1924).

The Chinese fish Squalidus wolterstorffi wolterstorffi (Regan 1908) was named in honor of Wolterstorff , who “received” fishes from China collected by Martin Kreyenberg, including type of this species.[4]

Written works

  • Das Untercarbon von Magdeburg-Neustadt und seine Fauna, 1898 (graduation thesis at Erlangen).
  • Über fossile Frösche, insbesondere das Genus Palaeobatrachus (two parts), 1886–1887 - On fossil
    Paleobatrachus
    .
  • Unsere Kriechthiere und Lurche, 1888 - Reptiles and amphibians.
  • Die Reptilien und Amphibien der Nordwestdeutschen Berglande, 1893 -
    amphibians
    of northwestern German hill country.
  • Die Tritonen der Untergattung Euproctus Gené und ihr Gefangenleben, nebst einem Überblick der Urodelen der südwestlichen paläarktischen Region, 1902 - treatise on
    urodele amphibians of the southwestern Palaearctic Region
    .

References

  1. ^ Statement based on a translation of an article on Willy Wolterstorff at the German Wikipedia.
  2. ^ ITIS Source: Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference v5.3, database (version 5.3).
  3. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5
    . ("Wolterstorff", pp. 288-289).
  4. ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Families ACHEILOGNATHIDAE, GOBIONIDAE and TANICHTHYIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 5 March 2021.

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