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    Leonhard Hess Stejneger (30 October 1851 – 28 February 1943) was a Norwegian-born American ornithologist, herpetologist and zoologist. Stejneger specialized...
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    member of the genus Mesoplodon inhabiting the North Pacific Ocean. Leonhard Hess Stejneger collected the type specimen (a beach-worn skull) on Bering Island...
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  • producers Gerhard Armauer Hansen (1841–1912) leprosy researcher Leonhard Hess Stejneger (1851–1943) ornithologist, herpetologist and zoologist Hans Henrik...
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    species. The Latin binomial commemorates the Norwegian ornithologist Leonhard Hess Stejneger. Urquhart, E., & Bowley, A. (2002): Stonechats. A Guide to the...
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    is known that Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Benedykt Dybowski, and Leonhard Hess Stejneger unearthed many skeletal remains from different individuals in the...
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    resembles P. m. dilutus, but is darker. P. m. saturatus, described by Leonhard Hess Stejneger in 1885, breeds in Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, Japan, Taiwan and...
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  • Hopkins, Theodore Gill, Barton Warren Evermann, Richard C. Banks, Leonhard Hess Stejneger, and Charles Abiathar White. The Biological Society of Washington...
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  • division of reptiles for the Smithsonian Institution, working under Leonhard Hess Stejneger until 1920, when he became a zoology professor at the University...
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    range. The common name commemorates the Norwegian ornithologist Leonhard Hess Stejneger. BirdLife International (2019). "Pterodroma longirostris". IUCN...
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    Akaroa, New Zealand. Baird's beaked whale was first described by Leonhard Hess Stejneger in 1883 from a four-toothed skull he had found on Bering Island...
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  • biochemist awarded the Nobel Prize for pioneering work on the ribosome Leonhard Hess Stejneger (1851–1943), Norwegian-American ornithologist, herpetologist and...
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    relatedness of these taxa. Its specific name, stejnegeri honors Leonhard Hess Stejneger, who, when writing his Herpetology of Porto Rico in 1902, suspected...
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    conspecific for some fifty years until they were split in 1901 by Leonhard Hess Stejneger. The taxon Piesigaster boettgeri was described from Mindanao in...
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    Lark bunting (category Taxa named by Leonhard Stejneger)
    under the name Fringilla bicolor. This is a preoccupied name, so Leonhard Hess Stejneger renamed the species in 1885 Calamospiza melanocorys. By then, the...
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  • (1816–1882) Steindachner – Franz Steindachner (1834–1919) StejnegerLeonhard Hess Stejneger (1851–1943) Stephens – James Francis Stephens (1792–1852)...
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    Western grotto salamander (category Taxa named by Leonhard Stejneger)
    was discovered in 1891 on the Ozark Plateau, and described by Leonhard Hess Stejneger in 1892. It is now considered a member of the genus Eurycea, but...
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  • the Observatoire de la Côte d´Azur. JPL · 13251 13253 Stejneger 1998 OM13 Leonhard Hess Stejneger (1851–1943) was a Norwegian-born American ornithologist...
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    the genus Cyclura from the family Iguanidae. First identified by Leonhard Hess Stejneger in 1902, and given subspecific status in 1920 by American herpetologist...
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    doi:10.1111/j.1469-7580.2006.00534.x. PMC 2100246. PMID 16533313. Stejneger, Leonhard Hess (1884). "Classification of birds". The Illustrated Science Monthly...
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  • Elias Sunde, politician and Minister (died 1910). 30 October – Leonhard Hess Stejneger, zoologist (died 1943) 10 November – Waldemar Christofer Brøgger...
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    tuberculosis in Arizona in March 1894 at the age of 38. In honor of Jouy, Leonhard Hess Stejneger gave in 1887 the scientific name Columba jouy to the Ryukyu wood...
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  • February – Sverre Granlund, commando (born 1918) 28 February – Leonhard Hess Stejneger, zoologist (born 1851) 1 March – Odd Starheim, resistance fighter...
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    National Museum. Although the museum was under the curatorship of Leonhard Stejneger, Cochran was responsible for the administration of the herpetological...
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    Seminar XI, Norwegian-American Historical Association in Norway. Stejneger, Leonhard Hess (1887) Birds of Kauai Island, Hawaiian Archipelago collected by...
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  • mother was Ingeborg Catharine (Hess). She was one of seven children who included her eldest brother Leonhard Stejneger. Steineger showed early talent...
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  • 2016-3.RLTS.T22690222A93265958.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021. Stejneger, Leonhard Hess (1887): Description of a New Species of Fruit-Pigeon (Janthoenas...
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    London, England: Taylor and Francis, Ltd. 1890. pp. 143–144. Stejneger, Leonhard Hess (1907). Herpetology of Japan and adjacent territory. Harvard University...
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    [Imperial Naturalist Society of Petrograd] (in Russian). 44: 158, 170. Stejneger, Leonhard Hess (1886). "Review of Japanese Birds: Part II Tits and Nuthatches"...
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    Audubon illustrated handbook of American birds. McGraw-Hill. p. 142. Stejneger, Leonhard Hess (1885). Results of Ornithological Explorations in the Commander...
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