Nikolai Alekseevich Severtzov (5 November 1827 – 8 February 1885) was a Russian explorer and naturalist.
Severtzov studied at the Moscow University and at the age of eighteen he came into contact with G. S. Karelin and took an interest in central Asia. In 1857, he joined a mission to Syr-Darya.[1] On the expedition to the Syr Darya, he was captured by bandits and freed after a month. In 1865–68, he explored the Tian Shan mountains and Lake Issyk Kul. In 1877–78, he explored the Pamir Mountains, following a route close to the current Pamir Highway as far as Lake Yashil Kul on the Ghunt River.
Severtzov wrote the Vertical and Horizontal Distribution of Turkestan Wildlife (1873), which included the first description of a number of animals. Among them is a subspecies of argali (wild sheep) later named after him: Ovis ammon severtzovi. He also described many new species and subspecies of birds. The Spotted Great Rosefinch Carpodacus severtzovi is among those named after him.
Severtzov began to assemble a collection of birds in the estate of Petrovskoe. On 8 February 1885, he was returning home in a carriage along the frozen Ikorts river that feeds into the Don. The carriage broke the ice and plunged. While everyone extricated themselves and attempted to find a warm place nearby, he delayed by searching for his portfolio and collapsed. His driver froze to death.[1]
The Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow is named after his son Alexey Severtzov.
Nikolai Alekseevich Severtzov (5 November 1827 – 8 February 1885) was a Russian explorer and naturalist. Severtzov studied at the Moscow University and...
History Museum, London. The subgenus Oncifelis was proposed in 1851 by NikolaiSevertzov with the Geoffroy's cat as type species. The kodkod was subordinated...
Prionailurus was first proposed by the Russian explorer and naturalist NikolaiSevertzov in 1858 as a generic name for a single felid occurring in tropical...
separated from the neighboring islands. The name Catopuma was proposed by NikolaiSevertzov in 1858 with Felis moormensis as type species, which was described...
sometimes preferred, since the type specimen of subcorax collected by NikolaiSevertzov is possibly a brown-necked raven. The population of this subspecies...
specimen from Darjeeling. The generic name Pardofelis was proposed by NikolaiSevertzov in 1858. At present, two subspecies are recognized as valid: P. marmorata...
Blue Nile in Sudan. The generic name Leptailurus was proposed by NikolaiSevertzov in 1858. The serval is the sole member of this genus. In 1944, Pocock...
John Henry Gurney, J. H. Gurney, Jr., Johann Friedrich Naumann, NikolaiSevertzov and Dr. Aleksandr Middendorff. He helped George Ernest Shelley with...
Dendrailurus, Lynchailurus, Noctifelis, Oncifelis and Oncoïdes by NikolaiSevertzov in 1858; Margay, Pajeros, Pardalina and Pardalis by Gray in 1867;...
of the Pamirs (Alexei Pavlovich Fedchenko, NikolaiSevertzov, Captain Putyata and others. Later came Nikolai Korzhenevskiy). Several local groups asked...
winter in India. C. c. asiatica, described by Russian naturalist NikolaiSevertzov in 1873, breeds in Turkestan and winters from Iran to India. It is...
from India by Josiah Marshall Heath. Prionailurus was proposed by NikolaiSevertzov in 1858 as generic name for spotted wild cats native to Asia. Felis...
from China. It was subordinated to the genus Catopuma proposed by NikolaiSevertzov in 1853. Two subspecies are recognised as valid since 2017: C. t....
comparative anatomy and morphology. He was the son of the zoologist NikolaiSevertzov. He studied the evolution of vertebrates and established an institute...
skin from eastern Congo was proposed as Felis maka in 1942. In 1858, NikolaiSevertzov proposed the generic names Profelis with F. celidogaster as type species...
Pozuzo District in Peru. The generic name Herpailurus was proposed by NikolaiSevertzov in 1858 for the jaguarundi. Later authors classified the jaguarundi...
Yarkant County and Kashgar when he described Felis shawiana in 1876. NikolaiSevertzov proposed the generic name Catolynx in 1858, followed by Leopold Fitzinger's...
Pardofelis was first proposed by the Russian explorer and naturalist NikolaiSevertzov in 1858 as generic name comprising a single felid species occurring...
Ochotonidae. It was first described by the Russian naturalist Nikolai Alekseevich Severtzov in 1873. In 1951, Ellerman and Morrison-Scott included the Chinese...
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Sidney Gilchrist Thomas (born 1850), British inventor February 8 – NikolaiSevertzov (born 1827), Russian explorer and naturalist March 14 – Friedrich...
Kyzylorda, now in southern Kazakhstan, by Russian naturalist NikolaiSevertzov. Severtzov had been planning to describe the species as Passer ammodendri...
The bird is named after a Russian explorer and naturalist, Nikolai Alekseevich Severtzov. Chinese grouse is legally an endangered species in China, in...
collaborated with prominent Russians including Nikolay Przhevalsky, NikolaiSevertzov and Sergei Buturlin. African specimens came from a variety of sources...
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