Georg Johann Pfeffer (1854–1931) was a German

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, primarily a

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, a

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who studies

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Pfeffer was born in

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. In 1887 he became

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of the , which was established in 1843 and destroyed during

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. Pfeffer's published writings were mainly about cephalopods. The

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database lists 133 marine

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named by Pfeffer When Pfeffer's name is listed as an authority for a

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such as the land snail genus '' Lamellaxis'' Strebel & Pfeffer, 1882, his name is ''not'' simply an orthographic error for the more commonly encountered molluscan authority Pfeiffer, i.e.

Ludwig Karl Georg Pfeiffer Ludwig Karl Georg Pfeiffer, also known as Louis Pfeiffer (4 July 1805 – 2 October 1877), was a German physician, botanist and conchologist. Early life, Education & Medical Career Louis Pfeiffer was born in Cassel, the eldest son of the jurist ...

, who lived 50 years earlier, from 1805 to 1877. Georg Johann Pfeffer also studied amphibians and reptiles, naming several new species. Two species of reptiles are named in his honor, '' Calamaria pfefferi'' and '' Trioceros pfefferi''.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Pfeffer", p. 205).

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* von Martens E, Pfeffer GJ (1886)
"''Die Mollusken von Süd-Georgien nach der Ausbeute der Deutschen Station 1882–83'' "
''Berichte über das Naturhistorische Museum zu Hamburg'' 1885: 65–135 + plates I-IV. *Pfeffer GJ (1912). "''Die Cephalopoden der Plankton-Expedition. Zugleich eine Monographische Übersicht der Oegopsiden Cephalopoden''". In: ''Ergebnisse der Plankton-Expedition der Humboldt-Stiftung, Band 12'' olume 12 Kiel and Leipzig: Lipsius & Tischer. *Pfeffer GJ (1930). "''Zur Kentniss tertiärer Landschnecken'' ". ''Geologische und Paleontologische Abhandlungen'' (new series) 17 (3): 1–230 + plates 1–3.

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* 1854 births 1931 deaths 19th-century German zoologists German malacologists German curators Teuthologists 20th-century German zoologists Scientists from Hamburg {{Germany-zoologist-stub

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