This article is about the German explorer. For the Norwegian painter, see Wilhelm Peters (painter).
German explorer / naturalist / zoologist
Wilhelm Peters
Born
(1815-04-22)22 April 1815
Koldenbüttel, Duchy of Schleswig
Died
20 April 1883(1883-04-20) (aged 67)
Berlin, Germany
Nationality
German
Known for
Explorer, zoologist
Peters' keeled plated lizard (Tracheloptychus petersi)
Wilhelm Karl Hartwich (or Hartwig) Peters (22 April 1815 – 20 April 1883) was a German naturalist and explorer.
He was assistant to the anatomist Johannes Peter Müller and later became curator of the Berlin Zoological Museum. Encouraged by Müller and the explorer Alexander von Humboldt, Peters travelled to Mozambique via Angola in September 1842, exploring the coastal region and the Zambesi River. He returned to Berlin with an enormous collection of natural history specimens, which he then described in Naturwissenschaftliche Reise nach Mossambique... in den Jahren 1842 bis 1848 ausgeführt (1852–1882). The work was comprehensive in its coverage, dealing with mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, river fish, insects and botany. He replaced Martin Lichtenstein as curator of the museum in 1858, and in the same year he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In a few years, he greatly increased the Berlin Museum's herpetological collection to a size comparable to those of Paris and London. Herpetology was Peters' main interest, and he described 122 new genera and 649 species from around the world.[1][2] Peters also described at least one new fish species, the piranha Serrasalmus irritans, Peters 1877, based on a specimen reported as from San Fernando de Apure, Venezuela.
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Wilhelm Karl Hartwich (or Hartwig) Peters (22 April 1815 – 20 April 1883) was a German naturalist and explorer. He was assistant to the anatomist Johannes...
August Friedrich Peters (7 September 1806 – 8 May 1880) was a German astronomer. He was the father of astronomer Carl Friedrich WilhelmPeters. He was born...
Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. German naturalist WilhelmPeters described this species in 1854. In colour, the snake is slate to blue...
nearby. Varanus salvadorii was first described as Monitor salvadorii by WilhelmPeters and Giacomo Doria in 1878 based on a female specimen with a snout-to-vent...
Guppies were first described in Venezuela as Poecilia reticulata by WilhelmPeters in 1859 and as Lebistes poecilioides in Barbados by De Filippi in 1861...
concern. The species was first described in 1864 by the German naturalist WilhelmPeters as Eumeces (Pleistodon) quinquelineatus var. Japonicus. It was placed...
("grass-cutter") because it supposedly clips grass. In 1873, German naturalist WilhelmPeters described Dendraspis Antinorii from a specimen in the museum of Genoa...
Retrieved 16 November 2021. Frost, Darrel R. (2020). "Breviceps adspersus Peters, 1882". Amphibian Species of the World: An Online Reference. Version 6.1...
family Branchiostomatidae. The genus was first described in 1876 by WilhelmPeters. The type species is Epigonichthys cultellus. Epigonichthys can grow...
genus, Atopogale. Since its discovery in 1861 by the German naturalist WilhelmPeters, only 36 had ever been caught. By 1970, some thought the Cuban solenodon...
well as The Bahamas. "Peters's rock agama, Agama picticauda Squamata: Agamidae". Invasive.Org. Retrieved 2020-12-13. "Peters's Rock Agama (Agama picticauda)"...
DNA analysis of the Japanese sea lion (Zalophus californianus japonicus Peters, 1866): preliminary results using mitochondrial control-region sequences"...
species of extremely venomous snake in the family Elapidae. Described by WilhelmPeters in 1867, the species is native to the coastal regions of northern and...
Pseudechis commonly known as black snakes. It was described in 1878 by WilhelmPeters and Giacomo Doria in 1878 from material collected in southeastern New...
names: authors list (link) Frost, Darrel R. (2017). "Ichthyophis beddomei Peters, 1880". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0...
Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis Books. 399 pp. (Genus Amblyodipsas, p. 65). Peters, W. (1857). "Über Amblyodipsas eine neue Schlangengattung aus Mossambique...
range. The great flying fox was described in 1876 by German naturalist WilhelmPeters. He listed it as a variety of the black-bearded flying fox, Pteropus...
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