Arthur Loveridge

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Arthur Loveridge ( born May 28, 1891 in Penarth, Wales, † February 16, 1980 at St. Helena ) was a British biologist and herpetologist. He described the wildlife in East Africa and published a large number of new taxa, including reptiles, and gave them their scientific name.

Life

Since his childhood he was interested in natural history. He gained his first experience at the National Museum of Wales and the Manchester Museum, before becoming in 1914 curator of the newly established British East Africa Museum in Nairobi, Kenya, today the National Museum of Kenya.

In 1924 he went to the USA and became a contributor to the herpetological section of Harvard University. In 1927 he became curator at the university. In the following years he took part in several expeditions to Tanzania and Malawi.

In 1957, he left Harvard University and spent his retirement at St. Helena, where he died on 16 February 1980.

Dedikationsnamen

Were named after him the following reptile species:

  • Afroedura loveridgei ( Broadley, 1963)
  • Anolis loveridgei Schmidt, 1936
  • Atractus loveridgei Amaral, 1930
  • Elapsoidea loveridgei Parker, 1949
  • Emoia loveridgei Brown, 1953
  • Melanoseps loveridgei Brygoo & Roux- Esteve, 1982
  • Typhlops loveridgei Constable, 1949

Ernst Hartert has dedicated to him in 1922 the scientific name of the orange-bellied Sunbird ( Cinnyris loveridgei ), the man who had collected the type specimen. In English there is therefore also the trivial name Loveridge 's Sunbird. So Hartert wrote:

"In the Tring Museum, v. 24, 1921, collected by Arthur Loveridge, after splat the species is named. "

Writings

  • Allen, Glover M & Loveridge, Arthur, Mammals from the Uluguru and Usambara Mountains, Tanganyika Territory in Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, Vol 38, No 9, Boston, 1927.
  • Barbour, T & Loveridge, A, A Comparative Study of the Herpeteologica fauna of the Ukuguru and Usambara Mountains, Tanganyika Territory, With Descriptions of New Species in Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Vol L, No. 2, 1928.
  • Loveridge, Arthur, East African Reptiles and Amphibians in the United States National Museum United States National Museum Bulletin 151, Washington, Smithsonian Institution, 1929.
  • Loveridge, Arthur, Field Notes on Vertebrates Collected by the Smithsonian - Chrysler East African expedition of 1926 in Proceedings of the United States National Museum, Vol 73, Article 17, No. 2738, Washington, 1928.
  • Loveridge, Arthur, Forest Safari ", London, Lutterworth Press, 1956.
  • Loveridge, Arthur, I Drank the Zambezi, London, Lutterworth Press, 1953.
  • Loveridge, Arthur, A List of the Amphibia of the British Territories in East Africa ( Uganda, Kenya Colony, Tanganyika Territory and Zanzibar ), Together with Keys for the Diagnosis of the Species in Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, London, 1930.
  • Loveridge, Arthur, A List of the Lizards of British Territories in East Africa ( Uganda, Kenya Colony, Tanganyika Territory, and Zanzibar ) With Keys for the Diagnosis of the Species in Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, London, 1923.
  • Loveridge, Arthur, The Lizards of Tanganyika Territory, Dar es Salaam, The Government Printer.
  • Loveridge, Arthur, Many Happy Days I've Squandered, London, Robert Hale, 1949.
  • Loveridge, Arthur, Notes on East African Birds ( Chiefly Nesting Habits and Endo - Parasites ), Collected 1920-1923 in Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, London, 1923.
  • Loveridge, Arthur, Notes on East African Lizards Collected 1920-1923, with the Description of Two New Races of Agama lionotus in Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, London, 1923.
  • Loveridge, Arthur, Notes on East African Mammals, Collected 1915-1922 in Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, London, 1923.
  • Loveridge, Arthur, Notes on East African Mammals, Collected 1920-1923 in Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, London, 1923.
  • Loveridge, Arthur, Notes on East African Scorpions and solifugae, Collected 1916-1923 in Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, London, 1925.
  • Loveridge, Arthur, Notes on East African Snakes, Collected 1918-1923 in Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, London, 1923.
  • Loveridge, Arthur, Notes on East African Tortoises, Collected 1920-1923, with the Description of a New Species of Tortoise Soft country in Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, London, 1923.
  • Loveridge, Arthur, Notes on the Three British Ophidia in Transactions of the Cardiff Naturalist's Society, Vol XLVI, Cardiff, 1913.
  • Loveridge, Arthur, On Natrix olivacea (Peters), From Pemba Iceland, and Other Notes on Reptiles and A. Muraenid Fish in Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, London, 1925.
  • Loveridge, Arthur, Preliminary Description of a New Tree viper of the genus Atheris from Tanganyika Territory in Proceedings of the New England Zoological Club, Vol XI, 1930.
  • Loveridge, Arthur, Rambles in Search of Frogs in Equatoria in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, Cambridge, 1935.
  • Loveridge, Arthur, Reptiles of the Pacific World ( re-edition in 1946 and rhyme in print in 1957), 1945.
  • Loveridge, Arthur, A Scientist 's Trip to Eastern Africa in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, 30 October 1930, Cambridge, 1930.
  • Loveridge, Arthur, A Serpent -seeking Safaria in Equatoria in The Scientific Monthly, Vol L & LI, June & July 1940, New York, 1940.
  • Loveridge, Arthur, The Snakes of Tanganyika Territory, Dar es Salaam, The Government Printer.
  • Loveridge, Arthur, Tomorrow's a Holiday, London, Robert Hale, 1951.
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