Friedrich Albrecht Anton Meyer (29 June 1768 – 29 November 1795) was a German

doctor Doctor or The Doctor may refer to: Personal titles * Doctor (title), the holder of an accredited academic degree * A medical practitioner, including: ** Physician ** Surgeon ** Dentist ** Veterinary physician ** Optometrist *Other roles ** ...

and naturalist. His academic thesis in

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was ''Dissertatio inauguralis medico-therapeutica De cortice angusturae''. He wrote, in 1793, ''Systematisch-summarische Uebersicht der neuesten zoologischen Entdeckungen in Neuholland und Afrika'', a work on African fauna, especially

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and

birds Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweigh ...

. His classification of

reptile Reptiles, as most commonly defined are the animals in the class Reptilia ( ), a paraphyletic grouping comprising all sauropsids except birds. Living reptiles comprise turtles, crocodilians, squamates (lizards and snakes) and rhynchocephalians ( ...

s, ''Synopsis reptilium, novam ipsorum sistens generum methodum, nec non Gottingensium huius ordinis animalium enumerationem'', was published in 1795.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Meyer, Friedrich 18th-century German zoologists 1768 births 1795 deaths