Knud Andersen (mammalogist)

Knud Christian Andersen ( born April 29, 1867 in Frederiksberg, † June 1918 in England) was a Danish zoologist. His research focus were the bats.

Life and work

Towards the end of the 19th century, Andersen worked as an ornithologist and operation, among other field studies on the Faroe Islands. In 1901 he was awarded by Prince Ferdinand I of Bulgaria a job at the Zoological Museum in Sofia. Out of frustration because of the working conditions he gave this however again. In 1904 he was employed by the British Museum. He researched 14 years in the Pacific, Southeast Asia as well as in Queensland and operational studies on bats. His particular interest was the families of bats and the horseshoe bats, of which he described 15 new species. About the Southeast Asian horseshoe bat -like, he wrote 13 scientific papers. Best known for his published work in 1912 Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the Collection of the British Museum, which is one of the most comprehensive standard works on the bats. 1918 Andersen went missing in mysterious ways, his body was never found.

1909 Andersen was elected a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London ( FZS ).

Dedikationsnamen

Rhinolophus anderseni (1909 by Ángel Cabrera is not a valid taxon more, the two subspecies anderseni and aequalis are now considered synonyms of the species Rhinolophus arcuatus and Rhinolophus acuminatus ), Dobsonia anderseni ( 1914 Oldfield Thomas ), Artibeus anderseni (1916 by Wilfred Hudson Osgood )

Works (selection)

• Meddelelser om faeroernes Fugle med saerligt Hensyn til Nolsø, efter skriftlige Oplysninger ( PF Petersen ), 1894
• Diomedea melanophrys, boende paa Færøerne, 1894 ( English: Diomedea melanophrys in the Faröe Islands, 1895)
• Sysselmand H.C. Müller's haandskrevne optegnelser om Færøoerne Fugle ( with Hans Christopher Müller), 1901
• Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the collection of the British Museum, 1912
• On the determination of age in bats, 1917