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Eltio Alegondas Forsten
Dutch naturalist (1811–1843) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Eltio Alegondas Forsten (12 July 1811, Middelburg – 1843, Ambon Island) was a Dutch naturalist.[1]
He studied medicine at Leiden, obtaining his degree in 1836 with a thesis on Cedrela febrifuga, titled "Dissertatio botanico-pharmaceutico-medica inauguralis de cedrela febrifuga".[2] In 1838 he became a member of the Natuurkundige Commissie for the Dutch East Indies, where he would spend the next several years collecting zoological and botanical specimens (Java, Sulawesi, Ternate, Ambon).[3]
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Eponymy (birds and reptiles)
- Forsten's cat snake, Boiga forsteni [4]
- Forsten's lorikeet, Trichoglossus forsteni
- Forsten's megapode, Megapodius freycinet
- Forsten's pointed snake, Rabdion forsteni [4]
- Forsten's tortoise, Indotestudo forstenii [4]
- Purple-bearded bee-eater, Meropogon forsteni [5]
- White-bellied imperial pigeon, Ducula forsteni
References
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