Theodore Edward Cantor

Theodore Edward Cantor, Theodor Edvard Cantor (* 1809 in Copenhagen, † 1860 in India) was a Danish physician, zoologist and botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Cantor ".

Life and work

Theodore Edward Cantor made ​​in 1833 in Hall graduated as a doctor of medicine. From 1835 to 1839 he served as a doctor in the Bengal Medical Service. He collected plants on the Malay Peninsula and in China. From Cantor comes, for example, the first description of the King Cobra.

Ehrentaxon

William Munro named in his honor in 1868 the way Bambusa cantori from the plant genus Bambusa.

Writings (selection )

  • Sketch of an undescribed hooded serpent with fangs and maxillary teeth. In: Asian. Res Volume 19, pp. 87-94 Calcutta 1836 - First description of the King Cobra
  • Description of a new species of Zygaena. In: Quarterly Journal of the Calcutta Medical and Physical Society. Pp. 315-320, 1837
  • A notice of the Hamadryas, a genus of hooded serpent with poisonous fangs and maxillary teeth. In: Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. Pp. 72-75, 1838
  • Notes respecting some Indian fishes, collected, figured and described, etc. In: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal. Volume 8: pp. 165-172, 1838
  • Spicilegium serpentium indicorum. R. and J. E. Taylor, London 1839
  • General features of Chusan, with remarks on the flora and fauna of Iceland did. Taylor, London 1842; digitized version
  • Catalogue of Mammalia inhabiting the Malayan Peninsula and Islands, & c. In: Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Volume 15: pp. 171-203 and pp. 241-279, 1846
  • Catalogue of Reptiles inhabiting the Malayan Peninsula and Islands, & c. Calcutta in 1847; digitized version
  • Catalogue of Malayan fishes. In: Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Volume 18, pp. 981-1443, 1849
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