Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger (19 November 1775 – 10 May 1813) was a German entomologist and zoologist.
Illiger was the son of a merchant in Braunschweig. He studied under the entomologist Johann Hellwig, and later worked on the zoological collections of Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg. Illiger was professor and director of the "zoological museum" (which is the Natural History Museum of Berlin in the present day) from its formation in 1810 until his death.[1][2]
He was the author of Prodromus systematis mammalium et avium[3] (1811), which was an overhaul of the Linnaean system.[4][5] It was a major influence on the adoption of the concept of the family. He also edited the Magazin für Insektenkunde,[6] widely known as "Illiger's Magazine".[7]
In 1811 he introduced the taxonomic order Proboscidea for elephants, the American mastodon and the woolly mammoth.[8] He also described the subspecies Odobenus rosmarus divergens, commonly known as the Pacific walrus.[9] Illiger's macaw (Primolius maracana; Vieillot, 1816) and Illiger's saddle-back tamarin (Leontocebus illigeri (Pucheran, 1845)) commemorate his name.[10] The botanical genus Illigera (family Hernandiaceae) also bears his name.[11]
^ON A COLLECTION OF BIRDS FROM GEORGIA AND CAROLINA MADE ABOUT 1810 BY JOHN ABBOT The Auk, volume 70. April 1953
^Illiger, Karl In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5, S. 138 f.
^Illiger, Johann Karl Wilhelm; Baird, Spencer Fullerton; Dwight, Jonathan; Giebel, C. (Christoph); Kellogg, Remington; Mathews, Gregory M. (Gregory Macalister); Möbius, Karl August; Richmond, Charles Wallace; Tucker, Marcia Brady; Wetmore, Alexander; R. Friedländer & Sohn, bookseller DSI (Sep 27, 1811). "Caroli Illigeri D. Acad. Reg. Scient. Berolinens. et Bavaricae Sod. Museo Zoologico Berolin. praefecti professoris extraord. Prodromus systematis mammalium et avium : additis terminis zoographicis utriusque classis, eorumque versione germanica". Berolini: Sumptibus C. Salfeld. Retrieved Sep 27, 2020 – via Internet Archive.
^"Limonia - Massachusetts". Sep 27, 1839. Retrieved Sep 27, 2020 – via Google Books.
^"Ray Society". Ray Society. Sep 27, 1847. Retrieved Sep 27, 2020 – via Google Books.
^Illiger, Johann Karl Wilhelm (Sep 27, 1802). "Magazin für insektenkunde". Braunschweig: Karl Reichard. Retrieved Sep 27, 2020 – via Internet Archive.
^Magazine of Natural History, Volume 8 edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson
^Mammals of Africa, Volumes 1-6 by Jonathan Kingdon, David Happold, Thomas Butynski, Michael Hoffmann, Meredith Happold, Jan Kalina
^Odobenus rosmarus divergens WoRMS taxon details
^The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals by Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson
^Medicinal Plants of China, Korea, and Japan by Christophe Wiart
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