Hans von Boetticher (30 August 1886 – 20 January 1958) was a German

zoologist Zoology ()The pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon. is the branch of biology that studies the Animal, animal kingdom, including the anatomy, structure, embryology, evolution, Biological clas ...

who worked on

ornithology Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the "methodological study and consequent knowledge of birds with all that relates to them." Several aspects of ornithology differ from related disciplines, due partly to the high visibility and th ...

and

entomology Entomology () is the science, scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such ...

. Boetticher was employed at the natural history museum in

Coburg Coburg () is a town located on the Itz river in the Upper Franconia region of Bavaria, Germany. Long part of one of the Thuringian states of the Wettin line, it joined Bavaria by popular vote only in 1920. Until the revolution of 1918, it was ...

. Several of his works deal with the higher level

taxonomy Taxonomy is the practice and science of categorization or classification. A taxonomy (or taxonomical classification) is a scheme of classification, especially a hierarchical classification, in which things are organized into groups or types. ...

of bird groups based on

morphology Morphology, from the Greek and meaning "study of shape", may refer to: Disciplines *Morphology (archaeology), study of the shapes or forms of artifacts *Morphology (astronomy), study of the shape of astronomical objects such as nebulae, galaxies, ...

phylogeny A phylogenetic tree (also phylogeny or evolutionary tree Felsenstein J. (2004). ''Inferring Phylogenies'' Sinauer Associates: Sunderland, MA.) is a branching diagram or a tree showing the evolutionary relationships among various biological spec ...

and

biogeography Biogeography is the study of the distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space and through geological time. Organisms and biological communities often vary in a regular fashion along geographic gradients of latitude, elevation, ...

. Some of his other works include those on the

pinniped Pinnipeds (pronounced ), commonly known as seals, are a widely distributed and diverse clade of carnivorous, fin-footed, semiaquatic, mostly marine mammals. They comprise the extant families Odobenidae (whose only living member is the walru ...

s. His special area of interest included ducks and geese, turacos, parrots, pigeons and sea-birds. The South American duck genera ''

Amazonetta The Brazilian teal or Brazilian duck (''Amazonetta brasiliensis'') is the only duck in the genus ''Amazonetta''. It is widely distributed in eastern South America. Taxonomy The Brazilian teal was formally described in 1789 by the German natura ...

'' and '' Speculanas'' were designated by him. Some of the other bird taxa that he named such as ''Galapagornis'' are no longer valid.''Galapagornis'' Boetticher 1949, Beitr. Gattungssyst. Vogel. (Goecke & Evers) Krefeld 1949, 27. Aves. He wrote a series of books on

bird families This article lists living orders and families of birds. The links below should then lead to family accounts and hence to individual species. The passerines (perching birds) alone account for well over 5,000 species. In total there are about 10 ...

. These included ''Gänse- und Entenvögel aus aller Welt'' (1952), ''Albatrosse und andere Sturmvögel'' (1955), ''Lärmvögel, Turakos und Pisangfresser'' (1955), ''Fasanen, Pfauen, Perlhühner und andere Zierhühner'' (1956) and ''Pelikane, Kormorane und andere Ruderfüßler'' (1957).

Partial list of publications

* Von Boetticher, H., 1964. Papageien. Ziemsen, Wittenberg * Boetticher, H. von 1954. Die Taubengattung Columba L. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 153:49-64. * von Boetticher, H. 1934. Beitrag zu einem phylogenetisch begründeten, natürlichen System der Steißhühner (Tinami) auf Grund einiger taxonomisch verwertbarer Charaktere. Jenaische Zeitrschr. Naturw. 69: 169–192. * von Boetticher, 1931, Vogel ferner Lander, vol. 5 * von Boetticher, H. 1943. Gedanken über die systematic Stellung einiger Papagaien. Zool. Anz. 143:191–200. * von Boetticher, H. 1959. Papagaien. Wittenberg Lutherstadt, A. Ziemsen. * von Boetticher, H. 1935. Der Gaimardische Buntkormoran. Vogel ferner Ender 1935: 81-83 * von Boetticher, H. 1934. Die geographische Verbreitung der Robben, Zeitschr. für Saugetierkunde. 9:359-368. * von Boetticher, H. 1940. Verzeichnis der Typen in der Vogelsammlung der Museum der Zoologisches Institut der Universität Halle an der Saale. Zeitschr. Naturwiss. 94: 205–214. *Boetticher, Hans von. 1955. Albatrosse und andere Sturmvögel. Wittenberg. 96 pp. 33 ills. Soft cover. (Neue Brehm-Bücherei 163). *Boetticher, Hans von. 1957. Pelikane, Kormorane und andere Ruderfüssler. Wittenberg. 94,(2) pp. 48 ills. Soft cover. (Neue Brehm-Bücherei 188). * Boetticher H. von 1955. Der Blaufuß-Tölpel "Camanay", ''

Sula nebouxii The blue-footed booby (''Sula nebouxii'') is a marine bird native to subtropical and tropical regions of the eastern Pacific Ocean. It is one of six species of the genus '' Sula'' – known as boobies. It is easily recognizable by its distincti ...

'' Milne-Edwards. Anzeiger der Ornithologischen Gesellschaft in Bayern 4: 375. * von Boetticher, H. 1951. La systématique des guêpiers. Oiseau. Rev. Fr. Ornithol. 5: 194–199.

References

External links

Bird name authorsBooks at Amazon.deBrazilian bird authors (in Spanish)

List of taxa named by Boetticher
20th-century German zoologists 1886 births 1958 deaths German ornithologists Hans {{Ornithologist-stub