Neue Classification der Reptilien, Systema Reptilium
Scientific career
Fields
Zoology
Institutions
Natural History Museum, Vienna
Author abbrev. (zoology)
Fitzinger
Leopold Joseph Franz Johann Fitzinger (13 April 1802 – 20 September 1884) was an Austrian zoologist.
Fitzinger was born in Vienna and studied botany at the University of Vienna under Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin. He worked at the Vienna Naturhistorisches Museum between 1817, when he joined as a volunteer assistant, and 1821, when he left to become secretary to the provincial legislature of Lower Austria; after a hiatus, he was appointed assistant curator in 1844 and remained at the Naturhistorisches Museum until 1861. Later, he became director of the zoos of Munich and Budapest.
In 1826, he published Neue Classification der Reptilien, based partly on the work of his friends Friedrich Wilhelm Hemprich and Heinrich Boie. In 1843, he published Systema Reptilium, covering geckos, chameleons and iguanas.
Fitzinger is commemorated in the scientific names of five reptiles: Algyroides fitzingeri, Leptotyphlops fitzingeri, Liolaemus fitzingerii, Micrurus tener fitzingeri, and Oxyrhopus fitzingeri.
Works[1]
Fitzinger LJFJ (1826). Neue Classification der Reptilien nach ihren natürlichen Verwandtschaften. Nebst einer Verwandtschafts-tafel und einem Verzeichnisse der Reptilien-Sammlung des K. K. zoologischen Museum's zu Wien (New classification of reptiles according to their natural relationships, appended to a table of their relationships and a sketch of the reptile collection of the imperial and royal zoological museum of Vienna). Vienna: J.G. Hübner. vii + 66 pp. + one plate. (in German and Latin).
Fitzinger LJFJ (1835). Entwurf einer systematischen Anordnung der Schildkröten nach den Grundsätzen der natürlichen Methode (Draft of a systematic arrangement of turtles based on the principles of the natural method).
Fitzinger LJFJ (1843). Systema Reptilium, Fasciculus Primus, Amblyglossae. Vienna: Braumüller et Seidel. 106 pp. + indices (in Latin).
Fitzinger LJFJ (1850). Über den Proteus anguinus der Autoren (On the author's Proteus anguinus).
Fitzinger LJFJ (1861). A catalog of the reptiles and amphibians collected during the Novara expedition.
^As given in the website of the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien.
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taxonomist Carl Linnaeus in 1758. The genus Thamnophis was described by LeopoldFitzinger in 1843 as the genus for the garter snakes and ribbon snakes. Many...
of colubrid snakes that was first described by Austrian zoologist LeopoldFitzinger in 1826. This genus is widespread throughout central and tropical...
species O. meyeri is disputed. The genus Orcinus was published by LeopoldFitzinger in 1860, its type species is the orca named by Linnaeus in 1758 as...
scientific name Cynailurus soemmeringii by the Austrian zoologist LeopoldFitzinger in 1855 on the basis of a specimen from Sudan’s Bayuda Desert brought...
365 pp. (Opheodrys, pp. 118-121, Figures 27-28 + Plate 12 on p. 332). Fitzinger L (1843). Systema Reptilium, Fasciculus Primus, Amblyglossae. Vienna:...
genera, commonly known as softshell turtles. The family was erected by LeopoldFitzinger in 1826. Softshells include some of the world's largest freshwater...
subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Drymarchon. Fitzinger L (1843). Systema Reptilium, Fasciculus Primus, Amblyglossae. Vienna:...
2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T4068A22188991.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021. Fitzinger, Leopold (1867). "Versuch einer natürlichen Anordnung der Nagethiere (Rodentia)"...
in the Altai and Pisihan Mountains. Tigris longipilis proposed by LeopoldFitzinger in 1868 was based on a long-haired tiger skin in the Natural History...
Diversity Web list of species of Rhabdophis Omne vivum list of species Fitzinger L (1843). Systema Reptilium, Fasciculus Primus, Amblyglossae. Vienna:...
extinction that killed off the non-avian dinosaurs. "Lepidosiren paradoxa Fitzinger 1837 (South American lungfish)". PBDB. Frederico, R.G. (2022). "Lepidosiren...
Hypnale hypnale - the Indian Humpnose Viper. Reptilia (GB) (38): 64–70. Fitzinger, L. 1843. Systema Reptilium: Fasciculus Primus: Amblyglossae. Braumüller...
genus Varanus was coined in 1820 by Blasius Merrem. Six years later LeopoldFitzinger moved the Nile monitor into this genus as Varanus niloticus, the currently...
generic name Psammophis was coined by the Austrian herpetologist LeopoldFitzinger in 1826, a compound of the Hellenistic Greek ψαμμο, "sand" + Classical...
2305/IUCN.UK.2012.RLTS.T199599A2605872.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021. Fitzinger, L. (1843). Systema Reptilium, Fasciculus Primus, Amblyglossae. Vienna:...
United States Geological Survey. Archived from the original on 2007-07-17. Fitzinger LI (1826). Neue Classification der Reptilien nach ihren natürlichen Verwandtschaften...
that the species was originally described in a genus other than Lycodon. Fitzinger LI (1826). Neue Classification der Reptilien nach ihren natürlichen Verwandtschaften...
subspecific name, fitzingeri, is in honor of Austrian herpetologist LeopoldFitzinger. The name maculatus (Latin for spotted) refers to the presence of...
complicated area of research. The genus was named by the Austrian zoologist LeopoldFitzinger in 1843, with the type species being Pantherophis guttatus. Shortly...
J.A.", p. 204). Kok PJR (2011). "A new species of the genus Gonatodes Fitzinger, 1843 (Reptilia: Sphaerodactylidae) from central Guyana, northern South...
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