Matteo Botteri

Botteri was born on the island Hvar{{harvp|Durbešić|2011|p=33}} to an Italian family.{{citation needed|date=February 2023|reason=In a source he was referred to as Italian, but further verification is warranted.}} He began his early career in Dalmatia and nearby areas in the Ottoman Empire{{harvp|Hooker|1853|p=221}} with flora and fauna, primarily ichthyologist investigations, while headquartered in Hvar.{{harvp|Durbešić|2011|p=30}} He, along with his contemporary {{ill|Grgur Bučić|hr}}, sent materials to Georg von Frauenfeld for his studies.{{harvp|Durbešić|2011|p=58}} He also sent material to Friedrich Kützing. In 1854, he travelled to Mexico to collect plants on behalf of the Royal Horticultural Society.{{harvp|Hughey|Gabrielson|Maggs|Mineur|2021|p=145}} He settled in Orizaba, where he founded a museum{{harvp|Beolens|2014|p=83}} and became professor of languages and natural history at Orizaba College.{{harvp|Dulčić|2010|p=110}}

File:Botteri's Sparrow for Matteo Botteri.jpg

Philip Sclater commemorated him in the name of the Botteri's sparrow, which Botteri collected as well as other birds in Veracruz in 1857.{{harvp|Harper|1930|p=177}}{{harvp|Fischer|2001|p=139}} He amassed a collection of 120 unique bird species in the vicinity of Orizaba,{{harvp|Sclater|1857|p=211}} including areas such as Tuxpango, Tehuipango.{{harvp|Loetscher|Gullion|Montgomery|Fisher|Young|Sibley|Childs|Mossman|Dixon|Stoner|Wooten|1952|p=204}} His keeping of slaty vireo brought attention as its green color stood out among its genus.{{harvp|Miller|Ray|1944|p=41}}

He died in Orizaba in 1877.

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• {{cite book |last1=Beolens |first1=Bo |title=The Eponym Dictionary of Birds |date=2014 |location=London |isbn=978-1472905734}}
• {{cite journal |last1=Dulčić |first1=Jakov |title=Ihtiološki doprinosi hvarskih prirodoslovaca Luigija Stalija, Matije Botterija i Grgura Bučića tijekom 19. stoljeća |journal=Prirodoslovlje: časopis Odjela za prirodoslovlje i matematiku Matice hrvatske |date=2010 |volume=10 |issue=1–2 |pages=107–116 |url=https://www.bib.irb.hr/487966 |language=hr}}
• {{cite journal |last1=Durbešić |first1=Paula |title=CROATIAN ENTOMOFAUNA – Looking Back from the Present and Future Plans |journal=Entomologia Croatica |date=22 December 2011 |volume=15 |issue=1–4 |pages=17–101 |url=https://hrcak.srce.hr/85019 |language=en |issn=1330-6200}}
• {{cite book |last1=Fischer |first1=Dan L. |title=Early Southwest Ornithologists, 1528-1900 |chapter=West of the 95th Meridian |date=2001 |pages=131–164 |publisher=University of Arizona Press |jstor=j.ctv21wj56r.12 |isbn=978-0-8165-2149-4 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv21wj56r.12}}
• {{cite report |last1=Hooker |first1=William Jackson |author-link=William Jackson Hooker |title=Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany |date=1853 |volume=5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wksaJzgn4jYC |publisher=Reeve, Benham, and Reeve |language=en}}
• {{cite journal |last1=Hughey |first1=Jeffery R. |last2=Gabrielson |first2=Paul W. |last3=Maggs |first3=Christine A. |author-link3=Christine Maggs |last4=Mineur |first4=Frédéric |title=Genomic analysis of the lectotype specimens of European Ulva rigida and Ulva lacinulata (Ulvaceae, Chlorophyta) reveals the ongoing misapplication of names |journal=European Journal of Phycology |date=2021 |volume=57 |issue=2 |pages=143–153 |doi=10.1080/09670262.2021.1914862|s2cid=236257717 }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Harper |first1=Francis |author-link=Francis Harper (biologist) |title=A Historical Sketch of Botteri's Sparrow |journal=The Auk |date=1930 |volume=47 |issue=2 |pages=177–185 |doi=10.2307/4075920 |jstor=4075920 |issn=0004-8038|doi-access=free }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Loetscher |first1=Frederick W. |last2=Gullion |first2=Gordon W. |last3=Montgomery |first3=Vester |last4=Fisher |first4=Harvey I. |last5=Young |first5=R. T. |last6=Sibley |first6=Charles G. |author-link6=Charles Sibley |last7=Childs |first7=Henry E. |last8=Mossman |first8=Archie S. |last9=Dixon |first9=Keith L. |last10=Stoner |first10=Emerson A. |last11=Wooten |first11=William A. |title=From Field and Study |journal=The Condor |date=1952 |volume=54 |issue=4 |pages=204–208 |doi=10.2307/1364637 |jstor=1364637 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1364637 |issn=0010-5422|url-access=subscription }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Miller |first1=Alden H. |author-link1=Alden H. Miller |last2=Ray |first2=Milton S. |title=Discovery of a New Vireo of the Genus Neochloe in Southwestern Mexico |journal=The Condor |date=1944 |volume=46 |issue=2 |pages=41–45 |doi=10.2307/1364304 |jstor=1364304 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1364304 |issn=0010-5422|url-access=subscription }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Sclater |first1=Philip Lutley |author-link=Philip Sclater |title=On a Collection of Birds Made By Signor Matteo Botteri in the Vicinity of Orizaba in Southern Mexico. |journal=Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London |date=January 1857 |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=210–215 |doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.1857.tb01227.x}}

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