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Coenraad Jacob Temminck (31 March 1778, Amsterdam
Amsterdam

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 - 30 January 1858, Lisse
Lisse

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) was a Dutch
Netherlands

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 aristocrat and zoologist.

Temminck was the first director of the National Natural History Museum at Leiden
Leiden

Media:Nl-Leiden.ogg is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland in the Netherlands and has 118,000 inhabitants. It forms a single urban area with Oegstgeest, Leiderdorp, Voorschoten, Valkenburg, Rijnsburg and Katwijk, with 254,000 inhabitants....
 from 1820 until his death.






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Temminck Coenraad Jacob 1770 1858
Coenraad Jacob Temminck (31 March 1778, Amsterdam
Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the Capital of the Netherlands and List of cities in the Netherlands with over 100,000 people of the Netherlands, located in the Provinces of the Netherlands of North Holland in the west of the country....
 - 30 January 1858, Lisse
Lisse

Media:Nl-Lisse.ogg is a town and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The municipality covers an area of 16.11 km? of which 0.41 km? is water....
) was a Dutch
Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
 aristocrat and zoologist.

Temminck was the first director of the National Natural History Museum at Leiden
Leiden

Media:Nl-Leiden.ogg is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland in the Netherlands and has 118,000 inhabitants. It forms a single urban area with Oegstgeest, Leiderdorp, Voorschoten, Valkenburg, Rijnsburg and Katwijk, with 254,000 inhabitants....
 from 1820 until his death. His Manuel d'ornithologie, ou Tableau systematique des oiseaux qui se trouvent en Europe (1815) was the standard work on Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
an bird
Bird

Birds are wing, Bipedalismal, endothermic , vertebrate animals that lay egg . There are around 10,000 living species, making them the most numerous tetrapod vertebrates....
s for many years. He inherited a large collection of bird specimens from his father, who was treasurer
Treasurer

In many governments, a treasurer is the person responsible for running the treasury. Treasurers are also employed by organizations such as clubs to look after funds....
 of the Dutch East India Company
Dutch East India Company

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.

Temminck was also the author of Histoire naturelle générale des Pigeons et des Gallinacées (1813-1817), Nouveau Recueil de Planches coloriées d'Oiseaux (1820-1839), and contributed to the mammalian sections of Philipp Franz von Siebold
Philipp Franz von Siebold

Philipp Franz Balthasar von Siebold was a German physician. He emerged as the first European to teach Western medicine in Japan. He obtained significance for his study of Japanese flora and fauna that were endemic to the unique biotic island landscape....
's Fauna japonica (1844-1850).

Partial List of Works

  • Las Posesiones holandesas en el Archipiélago de la India. Manila 1855.
  • Esquisses zoologiques sur la côte de Guiné ... le partie, les mammifères. Brill, Leiden 1853.
  • Coup-d'oeil général sur les possessions néerlandaises dans l'Inde archipélagique. Arnz, Leiden 1846–49.
  • Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux. Levrault, Paris 1838.
  • Monographies de mammalogie. Dufour & d'Ocagne, Paris, Leiden 1827–41.
  • Atlas des oiseaux d'Europe, pour servir de complément au Manuel d'ornithologie de M. Temminck. Belin, Paris 1826–42.
  • Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon. Dufour & d'Ocagne, Paris 1821.
  • Observations sur la classification méthodique des oiseaux et remarques sur l'analyse d'une nouvelle ornithologie élémentaire. Dufour, Amsterdam, Paris 1817.
  • Manuel d'ornithologie  ou  Tableau systématique des oiseaux qui se trouvent en Europe. Sepps & Dufour, Amsterdam, Paris 1815–40.
  • Histoire naturelle générale des pigeons et des gallinacés. Sepps, Amsterdam 1808–15.


Animal species named after Temminck

A large number of animals were named for Temminck in the 19th century. Among those still in use are:

  • Sharks and fishes:
    • Broadfin shark
      Broadfin shark

      The broadfin shark, Lamiopsis temminckii, the only member of the genus Lamiopsis, is a shark of the family Carcharhinidae, found in the tropical waters of the Indo-Pacific oceans between latitudes 24th parallel north and 4th parallel south, from the surface to 50 m....
       Lamiopsis temminckii
    • Kissing gourami
      Kissing gourami

      Kissing gouramis, also known as kissers , are large tropical freshwater fish comprising the monotypic labyrinth fish family Helostomatidae ....
       Helostoma temminckii
    • Goldribbon soapfish
      Goldribbon soapfish

      The goldribbon soapfish or goldstripe groper, Aulacocephalus temminckii, is a large Marine fish of the grouper family, found in the Indo-Pacific oceans from South Africa to Japan, and New Zealand where it is at its southernmost limit....
       Aulacocephalus temminckii
    • Ancistrus temminckii
      Ancistrus

      Ancistrus is a genus of freshwater fish in the family Loricariidae of order Siluriformes. Fishes of this genus are commonly known as the bushynose or bristlenose plecs....
       (a catfish)
    • Ditrema temminckii
      Embiotocidae

      The surfperches are a family, Embiotocidae, of perciform fishes. They are found in coastal waters of the northern Pacific and grow up to 45 cm long....
       (a surfperch)
    • Samoan silverside Hypoatherina temminckii
    • Dark chub Zacco temminckii (a carp)
    • Threadfin wrasse
      Wrasse

      The wrasses are a family , Labridae, of marine fish, many of which are brightly colored. The family is large and diverse, with about 500 species in 60 genera....
       Cirrhilabrus temminckii


  • Reptiles:
    • Alligator Snapping Turtle
      Alligator Snapping Turtle

      The Alligator Snapping Turtle is one of the largest freshwater turtles in the world. It is a larger and slightly less aggressive relative of the Common Snapping Turtle....
       Macrochelys temminckii
    • Sphenomorphus temminckii
      Sphenomorphus

      The genus Sphenomorphus currently serves as a "wastebin taxon" for a large number of skinks. While most or all species presently placed here are probably rather close relatives, the genus as presently delimited is likely to be not monophyletic and is in need of review ....
       (a skink)


  • Birds:
    • Temminck's Cormorant Phalacrocorax capillatus
    • Temminck's Tragopan
      Temminck's Tragopan

      The Temminck's Tragopan, Tragopan temminckii is a medium-sized, approximately 64cm long, pheasant in the genus Tragopan. The male is a stocky red-and-orange bird with white-spotted plumage, black Beak and pink legs....
       Tragopan temminckii
    • Temminck's Courser
      Temminck's Courser

      Temminck's Courser, Cursorius temminckii, is a bird in the pratincole and courser family, Glareolidae. It is a wader which lives in sub-Saharan Africa....
       Cursorius temminckii
    • Temminck's Stint
      Temminck's Stint

      Temminck's Stint, Calidris or Erolia temminckii, is a small wader.This stint breeding habitat is bogs and marshes in the taiga of Arctic northern Europe and Asia....
       Calidris temminckii
    • Malaysian Eared-Nightjar
      Eurostopodidae

      The Eared-nightjars are a small family of birds related to nightjars. There are seven species, mainly found in forest and scrubland from China to Australia....
       Eurostopodus temminckii
    • Purple-winged Roller
      Purple-winged Roller

      The Purple-winged Roller is a species of bird in the Coraciidae family.It is Endemism to Indonesia.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests....
       Coracias temminckii
    • Temminck's Hornbill Penelopides exarhatus
    • Ochre-collared Piculet
      Ochre-collared Piculet

      The Ochre-collared Piculet is a species of bird in the Picidae family. It is found in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest....
       Picumnus temminckii
    • Sulawesi Woodpecker
      Sulawesi Woodpecker

      The Sulawesi Woodpecker is a species of bird in the Picidae family. It is Endemism to Indonesia.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist mountains....
       Dendrocopos temminckii
    • Temminck's Fruit-dove Ptilinopus porphyreus
    • Cerulean Cuckoo-shrike
      Cuckoo-shrike

      The cuckoo-shrikes and allies in the Campephagidae family are small to medium-sized passerine bird species found in the subtropical and tropical Africa, Asia and Australasia....
       Coracina temminckii
    • Logrunner
      Orthonychidae

      The Orthonychidae is a family of birds with a single genus, Orthonyx, which comprises three species of passerine birds Endemic to Australia and New Guinea, the Logrunners and the Chowchilla....
       Orthonyx temminckii
    • Temminck's Sunbird
      Sunbird

      The sunbirds and spiderhunters are a family , Nectariniidae, of very small passerine birds. There are 132 species in 15 genus. The family is distributed throughout Africa, southern Asia and just reaches northern Australia....
       Aethopyga temminckii
    • Temminck's Lark
      Temminck's Lark

      The Temminck?s Lark or Temminck?s Horned Lark , breeds across much of north Africa, through northern Saudi Arabia to western Iraq. It is mainly resident, but some populations of this Passeriformes bird are partially bird migration, moving further south in winter....
       Eremophila bilopha
    • Temminck's Babbler Pellorneum pyrrhogenys
    • Temminck's Seedeater
      Seedeater

      The seedeaters and their relatives are a group of passerine birds formerly placed in the bunting family Emberizidae. They are now known to be tanagers closely related to Darwins finches....
       Sporophila falcirostris


  • Mammals:
    • Temminck's Pangolin
      Temminck's Pangolin

      The Ground Pangolin , also known as Temminck's Pangolin or the Cape Pangolin, is one of four species of pangolin which can be found in Africa and the only one in southern and eastern Africa....
       Manis temminckii
    • Temminck's Mole Mogera wogura
    • Temminck's Golden Cat Catopuma temminckii
    • Dwarf Dog-faced Bat
      Dwarf Dog-faced Bat

      The Dwarf Dog-faced Bat , is a bat species from South America. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guiana, Peru, Paraguay and Uruguay ....
       Molossops temminckii
    • Temminck's flying fox
      Pteropus

      Bats of the genus Pteropus, belonging to the Megabat sub-order, are the largest bats in the world. They are commonly known as the Fruit Bats or Flying Foxes among other numerous colloquial names....
       Pteropus temminckii
    • Temminck's tailless fruit bat Megaerops ecaudatus
    • Temminck's Red Colobus
      Red colobus

      The red colobus are Old World monkeys of the genus Piliocolobus. They were formerly placed in the genus Procolobus, which now is limited to the Olive Colobus....
       Pilocolobus badius temminckii (subspecies


External links

  • --Kyoto University Collection