Fredericus Anna Jentink

Fredericus Anna Jentink ( born August 20, 1844 in Wymbritseradiel, Friesland Province; † 4 November 1913 in Leiden) was a Dutch zoologist.

Life and work

1875 Jentink taxidermist at the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke History ( Naturalis today ) and took over in 1884 by Hermann Schlegel as director, he paused until his death in 1913. He was also editor of the Museum Journal " Notes from the Leyden Museum ." In 1895, he was Chairman of the Third International Zoological Congress in Leiden and was next to Philip Sclater Lutley, Raphaël Blanchard ( 1857-1919 ), Julius Victor Carus and Charles Wardell Stiles ( 1867-1941 ) of the founding members of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Jentinks research focus was the classification of mammals. He described several marsupials, bats and Nagetiertaxa, including the shrews Beutler, Schlegel ring Beutler, Chaerephon bemmeleni, the white-winged vampire Jentinks dormouse and the clover tooth giant rat. In 1886 he described the Meerkatzenart Cercopithecus signatus ( in German sometimes referred to as Jentinks monkey ) on the basis of a dead animal from the Diergaarde Blijdorp in Rotterdam. The museum acquired the Leiden copy in 1877 and it is still unclear which origin has this type of ape. Alternatively, a hybrid of Big White nose monkey and blue monkey mouth is suspected.

Among the scientific publications Jentinks count Catalogue ostéologique of mammifères (1887 ), Catalogue of systématique mammifères (1892 ) and Mammals Collected by the Members of the Humboldt Bay and the Merauke River Expeditions: Nova Guinea (1907).

Ehrentaxa

The zoologist Oldfield Thomas named 1887 Jentink Croissant and 1892 the Jentink Ducker in honor of Anna Fredericus Jentink.