Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch (8 August 1839, Warmbrunn – 31 January 1917, Braunschweig) was a German ethnographer, naturalist and colonial explorer....
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after German zoologist Otto Finsch. It is located to the south-southeast of the crater Sarabhai and northeast of Bessel. "Finsch (crater)". Gazetteer of...
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Finsch's wheatear (Oenanthe finschii) is a wheatear, a small insectivorous passerine that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family, Turdidae...
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Sagittariidae (category Taxa named by Otto Finsch)
artifact called the Pull of the recent.[relevant?] German naturalists Otto Finsch and Gustav Hartlaub established the taxon name as a subfamily—Sagittariinae—in...
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Lophochroa goffini is attributed to Otto Finsch in 1863. It was named for Andreas Leopold Goffin, a friend of Finsch and apparently a Dutch naval lieutenant...
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Mourning collared dove (category Taxa named by Otto Finsch)
Aves Order: Columbiformes Family: Columbidae Genus: Streptopelia Species: S. decipiens Binomial name Streptopelia decipiens (Hartlaub & Finsch, 1870)...
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remained with the aquarium until 1874. In 1876 he travelled to Siberia with Otto Finsch. In the winter of 1883 to 1884 Brehm planned a lecture tour to the US...
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through the houses and a celebration is held with feasting and dancing. Finsch, Otto (1888). Samoafahrten. Reisen im Kaiser Wilhelms-Land und Englisch-Neu-Guinea...
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The specific epithet finschi and the common name honours ornithologist Otto Finsch, who first recognised it as a distinct species. The species was originally...
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the German Chancellor, Count Otto von Bismarck, and with secrecy and speed an expedition was fitted out under Dr Otto Finsch, ornithologist and explorer...
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Markham, Rawlinson Ranges, and explores around the Markham's mouth. 1884 Otto Finsch on `Samoa' explores New Guinea under Deutsche Neuguinea-Kompagnie and...
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journal with Jean Cabanis, the Journal für Ornithologie. He wrote with Otto Finsch, Beitrag zur Fauna Centralpolynesiens: Ornithologie der Viti-, Samoa...
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binomial of this bird commemorates the German naturalist and explorer Otto Finsch. Its face is grey/green, and the rest of its head is dull green with...
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In April 1884 an expedition by the German New Guinea Company led by Otto Finsch and Eduard Dallmann arrived and named the landing point "Friedrich Wilhelmshafen";...
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Nauru reed warbler (category Taxa named by Otto Finsch)
found elsewhere, but was driven to local extinction by introduced cats. Otto Finsch was the first naturalist to visit the island of Nauru, stopping for six...
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Finschhafen was surveyed in 1884 by the German scientist and explorer Otto Finsch who gave his name to the town. A town was built in 1885 as part of the...
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Alan Feduccia – US Christoph Feldegg – Austria Frank Finn – England Otto Finsch – Germany Gustav Fischer – Germany Albert Kenrick Fisher – US James Maxwell...
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German ethnographer, naturalist and colonial explorer Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch. BirdLife International (2016). "Iole finschii". IUCN Red List of Threatened...
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It was thus termed Kaiserin Augustafluß by the explorer and scientist Otto Finsch, after the German Empress Augusta. The word Sipik was first reported...
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Houses on Fergusson Island, 1884–1885 sketch by Otto Finsch...
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Royal penguin (category Taxa named by Otto Finsch)
Order: Sphenisciformes Family: Spheniscidae Genus: Eudyptes Species: E. schlegeli Binomial name Eudyptes schlegeli Finsch, 1876 Distribution royal penguin...
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(1814-1900) named the Madagascar grebe (Tachybaptus pelzelnii) in his honor; Otto Finsch (1839-1917) named the Pohnpei starling (Aplonis pelzelni) after Pelzeln...
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expense”. On his return to Germany from his 1879–1882 Pacific expedition, Otto Finsch joined a small, informal group interested in German colonial expansion...
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the German Chancellor, Count Otto von Bismarck, and with secrecy and speed an expedition was fitted out under Dr Otto Finsch, ornithologist and explorer...
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Silktail (category Taxa named by Otto Finsch)
been a long-standing mystery. When describing the Taveuni silktail, Otto Finsch wrote "I scarcely remember a bird which has puzzled me in respect of...
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succeeded by Hermann von Rosenberg. Schlegel took on a young assistant, Otto Finsch. At the same time, he started to publish a scientific magazine, Notes...
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Halmahera golden bulbul (category Taxa named by Otto Finsch)
Order: Passeriformes Infraorder: Passerides Family: Pycnonotidae Genus: Hypsipetes Species: H. chloris Binomial name Hypsipetes chloris (Finsch, 1867)...
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lilac-crowned parrot, Finsch's parrot or Finsch's amazon, is a parrot endemic to the Pacific slopes of Mexico. Also known as Finsch's amazon, it is characterised...
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Pohnpei fantail (category Taxa named by Otto Finsch)
Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Rhipiduridae Genus: Rhipidura Species: R. kubaryi Binomial name Rhipidura kubaryi Finsch, 1876...
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German ethnographer, naturalist and colonial explorer Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch (8 August 1839 - 31 January 1917, Braunschweig). BirdLife International...
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