Rudolf Grauer

Rudolf Grauer (20 August 1870, Hellbrunn, Salzburg – 17 December 1927, Vienna) was an Austrian explorer and zoologist.

He conducted zoological investigations in British East Africa (present-day Uganda) in 1905, German East Africa in 1907, and in the Belgian Congo (1910–11).^[1][2] In 1910 he was among the first Europeans to come in contact with the Mambuti. He died from actinomycosis, which he had contracted in Africa.^[3] His African collections are housed at the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna.^[4]

Eponymy

Birds:

• Grauer's broadbill, Pseudocalyptomena graueri
• Grauer's cuckooshrike, Coracina graueri
• Grauer's swamp warbler, Bradypterus graueri
• Grauer's warbler, Graueria vittata

Mammals:^[2]

• Grauer's large-headed shrew, Paracrocidura graueri
• Eastern lowland gorilla, Gorilla beringei graueri

Reptiles:^[3]

• Grauer's blind snake, Letheobia graueri
• Rwanda five-toed skink, Leptosiaphos graueri

Amphibians:^[5]

• Grauer's puddle frog (Rugege river frog), Phrynobatrachus graueri

Fishes:^[6]

• Bathybates graueri