Fritz Sarasin
{{Short description|Swiss naturalist (1859–1942)}}
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Fritz Sarasin, full name Karl Friedrich Sarasin (3 December 1859 – 23 March 1942) was a Swiss naturalist.
He was a second cousin of Paul Sarasin.Coan E. V., Kabat A. R. & Petit R. E. (15 February 2009). [http://www.malacological.org/publications/2400_malacology.html 2,400 years of malacology, 6th ed.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181005154552/http://www.malacological.org/publications/2400_malacology.html |date=2018-10-05 }}, 830 pp. + 32 pp. [Annex of Collations]. American Malacological Society. They made a scientific expedition to Celebes (now Sulawesi).
Taxon named in his honor
Paul and Fritz Sarasin are commemorated in the scientific names of five species of reptiles:
- Amphiesma sarasinorum,
- Correlophus sarasinorum,
- Nessia sarasinorum,
- Pseudorabdion sarasinorum, and
- Sphenomorphus sarasinorum.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}}. ("Sarasin", p. 233).
And fish:
- Sarasin's goby Mugilogobius sarasinorum is named in the cousins honor.{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/gobiiformes2/ | title = Order GOBIIFORMES: Family OXUDERCIDAE (a-o) | access-date= 15 March 2022 | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | date = 22 September 2018}}
- The Rainbow Telmatherina sarasinorum Kottelat, 1991{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/atheriniformes2/ | title = Order ATHERINIFORMES: Families BEDOTIIDAE, MELANOTAENIIDAE, PSEUDOMUGILIDAE, TELMATHERINIDAE, ISONIDAE, DENTATHERINIDAE and PHALLOSTETHIDAE | access-date= 13 July 2019 | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | date = 14 March 2019}}
There are seven species, two genera and one subfamily of harvestmen named after them.
{{botanist|Sarasin|Sarasin, Karl Friedrich}}
Bibliography
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He has published some of scientific works together with Paul Sarasin.
- Sarasin F. & Roux J. (eds.) (1913–1918). "Nova Caledonia. Forschungen in Neu-Caledonien und auf den Loyalty-Inseln. Recherches scientifiques en Nouvelle-Calédonie et aux iles Loyalty". Wiesbaden.
- (1913). [https://archive.org/details/novacaledoniafor01sara A. Zoologie. Volume I.]
- (1915). [https://archive.org/details/novacaledoniafor02sara A. Zoologie. Volume II.]
- (1923). [https://archive.org/details/novacaledoniafor03sara A. Zoologie. Volume III.]
- (1925). [https://archive.org/details/novacaledoniafor04sara A. Zoologie. Volume IV.]
- Aus einem glücklichen Leben. Biographische Notizen, Frobenius AG, Basel 1941.
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External links
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