Friedrich Johann Graf von Medem (29 August 1912 in Remten, Russian Empire presently Latvia – 1 May 1984 in Bogotá, Colombia) was a Baltic German zoologist who emigrated to Colombia at age 38 (in 1950) and later became a representative of the IUCN Crocodiles Specialist Group for South America. He was also known as Federico Medem and published under this name.
Eponyms edit
Numerous species have been named after Medem, including four reptiles and two frogs.
- Micrurus medemi Roze, 1967, a coral snake[1][2]
- Centrolene medemi (Cochran & Goin, 1970), a frog
- Amphisbaena medemi Gans & Mathers, 1977, an amphisbaenian[2]
- Neusticurus medemi Dixon & Lamar, 1981, a spectacled lizard[2]
- Anolis medemi Ayala & E. Williams, 1988, an anole lizard.[2]
- Pristimantis medemi (Lynch, 1994), a frog
References edit
- ^ Micrurus medemi at the Reptile Database.
- ^ a b c d Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Medem", pp. 174–175).
Further reading edit
- Lamar, William W. (1984). "Federico Medem (29 August 1912–1 May 1984)". Herpetologica 40 (4): 468-472.
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