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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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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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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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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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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and colonial explorer Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch (8 August 1839 - 31 January 1917, Braunschweig). Finsch's pygmy parrot is characterized by a green...
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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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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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ethnologist Otto Finsch pointed out this confusion in 1914. In the catalog of the collection of the Natural History Museum Vienna from 1893, Finsch describes...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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German ethnographer, naturalist and colonial explorer Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch. BirdLife International (2016). "Iole finschii". IUCN Red List of Threatened...
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Scheepmaker's crowned pigeon (category Taxa named by Otto Finsch)
crowned pigeon. This species was first described by the German zoologist Otto Finsch who received a live bird from the dealer C. Scheepmaker in Amsterdam...
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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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in Europe and the United States. The Eleonora cockatoo was named by Otto Finsch. He discovered the subspecies in Amsterdam's Artis zoo and named it after...
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this bird, finschi, commemorates the German naturalist and explorer Otto Finsch. The plumage of an adult lilac-crowned amazon is primarily green with...
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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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Martin Hilgendorf, Eduard von Martens, Carl Eduard Adolph Gerstaecker, Otto Finsch, Gustav Hartlaub, et al. Animals and plants with the specific epithets...
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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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Stephanie's astrapia (category Taxa named by Otto Finsch)
Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Paradisaeidae Genus: Astrapia Species: A. stephaniae Binomial name Astrapia stephaniae (Finsch & A.B. Meyer, 1886)...
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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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Blue bird-of-paradise (category Taxa named by Otto Finsch)
bird-of-paradise was formally described in 1886 by the German naturalists Otto Finsch and Adolf Bernhard Meyer. They placed the bird in a new genus Paradisornis...
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