The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles by Bo Beolens & Michael Watkins & Michael Grayson

Author:Bo Beolens & Michael Watkins & Michael Grayson [Beolens, Bo & Watkins, Michael & Grayson, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science, Life Sciences, Biology, Reference, Dictionaries, History, Paleontology, General
ISBN: 9781421402277
Google: 0F758vNQ0UUC
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2011-09-05T14:00:00+00:00

Koppes

Amaral’s Blind Snake Leptotyphlops koppesi Amaral, 1954

S. J. Koppes collected the holotype in 1934.

Kopstein

Kopstein’s Emo Skink Emoia jakati Kopstein, 1926

Kopstein’s Bronzeback Snake Dendrelaphis kopsteini Vogel and de Rooijen, 2007

Skink sp. Sphenomorphus capitolythos Shea and Michels, 2008

Dr. P. Felix Kopstein (1893–1939) was an Austrian physician and naturalist. He collected in Albania (1914). He studied biology and medicine at the University of Vienna (1913–1920). He worked for the Dutch government in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) from 1921, initially in Amboina. He made field trips to New Guinea and the Moluccas, and acted as local agent for Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Histoire, Leiden. He wrote Een Zoölogische Reis Door de Tropen (1930). The etymology of the skink species makes it clear that capitolythos is derived from caput (Latin for “head”) and lythos (Greek for “stone”), in reference to the two German words in the name Kopstein, for “head” and “stone” respectively.

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