Karl Koopman

{{Infobox person

|name = Karl Koopman

|image =

|alt =

|caption =

|birth_date = 1 April 1920

|birth_place = Honolulu

|death_date = 22 September 1997

|death_place = New York City

|nationality = American

|other_names =

|known_for =

|occupation =

}}

Karl Koopman (1 April 1920 – 22 September 1997) was an American zoologist with a special interest in bats.{{Cite book|chapter=Koopman, Karl|title=American National Biography|chapter-url=http://www.anb.org/articles/13/13-02613.html|publisher=Oxford University Press|title-link=American National Biography}} Subscription needed.{{cite news|last=Pace|first=Eric|title=Dr. Karl F. Koopman, 77, An Authority on Bats, Is Dead|newspaper=The New York Times|date=30 September 1997}} He worked for many years in the Mammalogy Department of the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

Eponyms

Mammal species named after him include Monticolomys koopmani, Rattus koopmani, and Sturnira koopmanhilli.

Also, a reptile species, Anolis koopmani, is named in his honor.Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. (Koopman, p. 145).

Karl Koopman

Eponyms

References

Further reading