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    Johann Reinhold Forster (22 October 1729 – 9 December 1798) was a German Reformed (Calvinist) pastor and naturalist who made contributions to the early...
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    and revolutionary. At an early age, he accompanied his father, Johann Reinhold Forster, on several scientific expeditions, including James Cook's second...
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    She regularly met with the naturalist Johann Reinhold Forster while he was teaching at Warrington Academy. Forster instructed her in entomology and helped...
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    World is Johann Reinhold Forster's systematic account of the scientific and ethnological results of the second voyage of James Cook. Forster, a former...
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    the years 1772–1775 by Johann Reinhold Forster and Georg Forster") is a 1775/1776 book by Johann Reinhold Forster and Georg Forster about the botanical discoveries...
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  • Johann Forster Johann Forster may also refer to: Johann Reinhold Forster Johann Georg Adam Forster This disambiguation page lists articles about people...
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    antarcticus). The earliest scientific description was made in 1781 by Johann Reinhold Forster with a type locality in the Falkland Islands. The species calls...
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    Leptospermum (category Taxa named by Johann Reinhold Forster)
    was published in 1776 by the German botanists Johann Reinhold Forster and his son Johann Georg Adam Forster, but an unambiguous definition of individual...
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    Artocarpus (category Taxa named by Johann Reinhold Forster)
    ("bread") and karpos ("fruit"). This name was coined by Johann Reinhold Forster and J. Georg Adam Forster, a father-and-son team of botanists aboard HMS Resolution...
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    Leptospermum scoparium (category Taxa named by Johann Reinhold Forster)
    Leptospermum scoparium, commonly called mānuka (Māori pronunciation: [maːnʉka]), mānuka myrtle, New Zealand teatree, broom tea-tree, or just tea tree,...
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    island itself. The species name "forsteriana" is after Johann Reinhold Forster and Georg Forster, father and son, who accompanied Captain Cook as naturalists...
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    Eskimo curlew (category Taxa named by Johann Reinhold Forster)
    Scolopacidae is a Charadriiform lineage. The species was described by Johann Reinhold Forster in 1772. The generic name has three possible etymologies. One is...
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    Karaka was first described by the German naturalists Johann Reinhold Forster and Georg Forster in 1776. Karaka grows to heights up to 15–20 m (49–66 ft)...
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    Breynia (category Taxa named by Johann Reinhold Forster)
    Breynia is a genus in the flowering plant family Phyllanthaceae, first described in 1776. It is native to Southeast Asia, China, Réunion, the Indian Subcontinent...
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    Rock cod (category Taxa named by Johann Reinhold Forster)
    Species: L. rhacina Binomial name Lotella rhacina (J. R. Forster, 1801) Synonyms Gadus rhacinus Forster, 1801 Lotella fuliginosa Günther, 1862 Lotella callarias...
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    Joseph Banks had withdrawn his participation, and Georg's father, Johann Reinhold Forster, had taken his place at very short notice, with his seventeen-year-old...
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    Loon (category Taxa named by Johann Reinhold Forster)
    name unfit for further use and establishing Gavia, created by Johann Reinhold Forster in 1788, as the valid genus name for the loons. However, the situation...
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    Aciphylla squarrosa (category Taxa named by Johann Reinhold Forster)
    Aciphylla squarrosa, or common speargrass, is a species of Aciphylla. A type of speargrass with long spikes and a central flower. North Island of New Zealand...
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    Phormium tenax (category Taxa named by Johann Reinhold Forster)
    Phormium tenax J.R.Forst & G.Forst was described in 1776 by Johann Reinhold Forster and Georg Forster, who were the father and son team of German botanists...
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    originally given the scientific name Aptenodytes antarctica by Johann Reinhold Forster in 1781, thereby placing it in the same genus as the king and emperor...
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  • The first person to identify Zichmni with Henry Sinclair was Johann Reinhold Forster in 1784. The account of the voyages given by the younger Nicolò...
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    the name Harpurus proposed as a monospecific genus in 1788 by Johann Reinhold Forster when he described Harpurus fasciatus, a synonym of Acanthurus triostegus...
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    Indian spot-billed duck (category Taxa named by Johann Reinhold Forster)
    poecilorhyncha). The Indian spot-billed duck was described by the naturalist Johann Reinhold Forster in 1781 under its current binomial name Anas poecilorhyncha. The...
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    Southern rockhopper penguin (category Taxa named by Johann Reinhold Forster)
    penguin was formally described in 1781 by the German naturalist Johann Reinhold Forster under the binomial name Aptenodytes chrysocome. The species is...
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    Great grey owl (category Taxa named by Johann Reinhold Forster)
    great grey owl spread across North America and Eurasia. S. n. nebulosa (Forster, 1772): North America from central Alaska eastward across Canada to south-western...
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    resulting "adverse conditions". Instead the position was taken by Johann Reinhold Forster and his son, Georg, who were taken on as Royal Society scientists...
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    South African springhare (category Taxa named by Johann Reinhold Forster)
    "Life history and economic value of the springhare (Pedetes capensis forster) in Botswana". Botswana Notes and Records. Peinke, D.M.; Brown, C.R. (2005-04-01)...
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    Zebra shark (category Taxa named by Johann Reinhold Forster)
    listed it as being described in 1795). Squalus tigrinus was described by Forster in 1781, two years before Squalus fasciatus was described by Hermann. Consequently...
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    Black lark (category Taxa named by Johann Reinhold Forster)
    Family: Alaudidae Genus: Melanocorypha Species: M. yeltoniensis Binomial name Melanocorypha yeltoniensis (Forster, 1768) Synonyms Alauda yeltoniensis...
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    endemic to New Zealand. The species was described by Johann Reinhold Forster, and Georg Forster in 1776. It has a conservation status of Not Threatened...
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