Leonhard Hess Stejneger

Leonhard Hess Stejneger, 1902

Leonhard Hess Stejneger (30 oktober 1851 - 28 februari 1943) var en amerikansk ornitolog, herpetolog och zoolog, född i Norge. Han var bror till konstnären Agnes Steineger.

Stejneger specialiserade sig på naturhistoriska undersökningar av ryggradsdjur. Han fick sin största berömmelse genom sina studier av reptiler och amfibier.

Bibliografi i urval

• Results of Ornithological Explorations in the Commander Islands and in Kamtschatka (1885)
• Birds of Kauai Island, Hawaiian Archipelago / collected by Mr. Valdemar Knudsen, with description of new species (1887)
• Notes on a third collection of birds made in Kauai, Hawaiian Islands (1890)
• The Poisonous Snakes of North America (1895)
• The Russian Fur-Seal Islands (1896)
• Herpetology of Porto Rico (1904)
• Herpetology of Japan and Adjacent Territories (1907)
• A new Gerrhonotine Lizard from Costa Rica (1907)
• Three new species of lizards from the Philippine Islands (1908)
• A new genus and species of lizard from Florida (1911)
• A new Scincid Lizard from the Philippine Islands (1911)
• Results of the Yale Peruvian Expedition of 1911. Batrachians and Reptiles (1913)
• A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles [with Thomas Barbour] (1917)
• A chapter in the history of zoological nomenclature (1924)
• Fur-seal industry of the Commander Islands: 1897-1922 (1925)
• Identity of Hallowell's snake genera, Megalops and Aepidea (1927)
• The Chinese lizards of the genus Gekko (1934)
• Georg Wilhelm Steller, the pioneer of Alaskan natural history (1936)

Källor

Denna artikel är helt eller delvis baserad på material från engelskspråkiga Wikipedia, Leonhard Hess Stejneger, 2012-03-02.

Se även

• Stejnegers petrell

Externa länkar

• Leonhard Stejneger Papers, 1867-1943 (by William R. Massa, Jr., and Linda Elmore. Smithsonian Institution Archives) (engelska)
• Leonhard Hess Stejneger 1851-1943 (by Alexander Wetmore. Presented to the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America at the Autumn Meeting. 1945) (engelska)