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. His African collections are housed at the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna.[3]
Eponymy
- Grauer's blind snake, Rhinotyphlops graueri.
- Grauer's broadbill, Pseudocalyptomena graueri.
- Grauer's cuckooshrike, Coracina graueri.
- Grauer's large-headed shrew, Paracrocidura graueri.
- Grauer's swamp warbler, Bradypterus graueri.
- Grauer's warbler, Graueria vittata.
He is also commemorated with the subspecies Gorilla beringei graueri (eastern lowland gorilla) and a species of skink, Leptosiaphos graueri (Rwanda five-toed skink).[2][4]
References
- ↑ Biography in German @ Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950
- 1 2 The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals by Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson
- ↑ biographical information @ Austria-Forum
- ↑ The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles by Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson
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