Georg Duncker

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Paul Georg Egmont Duncker
Born(1870-05-06)6 May 1870
Hamburg, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
Died28 July 1953(1953-07-28) (aged 83)
Ahrensburg, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
NationalityGerman
Alma mater University of Kiel
University of Freiburg
Humboldt University of Berlin

Paul Georg Egmont Duncker (6 May 1870, Hamburg 28 July 1953, Ahrensburg) was a German ichthyologist.

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Biography

He studied at the universities of Kiel, Freiburg, and Berlin, receiving his doctorate at Kiel in 1895. Following graduation he lived and worked in Karlsruhe, Plymouth, Naples, Cold Spring Harbour (Long Island N.Y.), and Würzburg. From 1901 he worked as a curator for a year at the Selangor State Museum in Kuala Lumpur, afterwards returning to Europe, where he spent another year in Naples. [1]

He was a member of the Hamburg Südsee-Expedition (1908-10) during its first year in Oceania, of which, he collected specimens on behalf of the Hamburg Zoological Museum. From 1928 onward, he worked as a curator and professor at the Museum. [1] In 1939 he became an honorary member of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. [2]

In 1904 he described the Harlequin rasbora, Trigonostigma heteromorpha, a fish species that inhabits the forest streams of Southeast Asia. [3]

Taxon named in his honor

Taxa with the specific epithet of dunckeri honor his name, such as:

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Taxon described by him

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References

  1. 1 2 Duncker, (Paul) Georg (Egmont) Nationaal Herbarium Nederland
  2. "Statement based on translated text from an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia".
  3. Trigonostigma heteromorpha FishBase
  4. Solegnathus dunckeri Whitley, 1927 GBIF.org
  5. The ETYFish Project Archived 2015-07-21 at the Wayback Machine Order CYPRINIFORMES: Family CYPRINIDAE
  6. Full text of "Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences"
  7. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order SYNGNATHIFORMES: Families AULOSTOMIDAE, CENTRISCIDAE, FISTULARIIDAE, SOLENOSTOMIDAE and SYNGNATHIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 29 January 2023.
  8. Biodiversity Library Book titles