Fritz Nieden

Fritz Nieden (1883–1942) was a German zoologist who specialized in African herpetology.^[1]

He worked as a zoologist at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin. His name is associated with Nieden's dwarf skink, Panaspis megalurus.^[2] In 1911 he was the first to describe Callulina kreffti, a species of frog, which until 2004 was the only known species of the genus Callulina.^[3][4]

The Sagala caecilian, Boulengerula niedeni, is named after him.^[1][5]

Selected writings

• Die Amphibienfauna von Kamerun (1908), Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 3: 491–518 ("Amphibian fauna of Cameroon")
• Die Reptilien (außer den Schlangen) und Amphibien, 1910 - Reptiles (other than snakes) and amphibians.
• Gymnophoina (Amphibia apoda), 1913 - Gymnophiona (caecilians).
• Amphibia : Anura I subordo Aglossa und Phanerglossa, sectio 1 Arcifera, 1923 - Anura I, suborders Aglossa and Phaneroglossa.
• Amphibia. Anura II. Engystomatidae ... Mit 55 Abbildungen, 1926 - Anura II, Engystomatidae.^[6]