Israel Heymann Jonas (1795-1851) was a German
malacologist
Malacology is the branch of invertebrate zoology that deals with the study of the Mollusca (mollusks or molluscs), the second-largest phylum of animals in terms of described species after the arthropods. Mollusks include snails and slugs, clams, ...
. He studied medicine at the
Christian-Albrechts-Universität
Kiel University, officially the Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, (german: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, abbreviated CAU, known informally as Christiana Albertina) is a university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in ...
in
Kiel
Kiel () is the capital and most populous city in the northern Germany, German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 246,243 (2021).
Kiel lies approximately north of Hamburg. Due to its geographic location in the southeast of the J ...
, Prussia.
Species named by Jonas
The
World Register of Marine Species
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Content
The content of the registry is edited and maintained by scientific specialist ...
has 104 records of marine taxa named by Jonas. Most of these names have become synonyms, except:
Species named in honor of Jonas
Hombron & Jacquinot naming a genus ''
Jonas
Jonas may refer to:
Geography
* Jonas, Netherlands, Netherlands
* Jonas, Pennsylvania, United States
* Jonas Ridge, North Carolina, United States
People with the name
* Jonas (name), people with the given name or surname Jonas
* Jonas, one of ...
'' in honor of him; this is a crab genus in the family
Corystidae
Corystidae is a family of crabs, in its own superfamily, Corystoidea. It includes what was once thought to be the oldest Eubrachyuran fossil, '' Hebertides jurassica'', thought to be dating from the Bathonian (Middle Jurassic); the species was su ...
. A number of marine gastropod species use the epithet "jonasii" or ''jonasi'' in his honor.
* ''Arcularia jonasii''
(Dunker, 1846): synonym of ''
Nassarius jonasii''
Dunker, 1846
* ''
Baseodiscus jonasii''
Strand, Hjelmgren & Sundberg, 2005
* ''Buccinum jonasii''
Dunker, 1846: synonym of ''
Nassarius jonasii''
Dunker, 1846
* ''Nassa jonasii''
(Dunker, 1846): synonym of ''
Nassarius jonasii''
Dunker, 1846
* ''
Nassarius jonasii''
Dunker, 1846
* ''Parcanassa jonasii''
(Dunker, 1846): synonym of ''
Nassarius jonasii''
Dunker, 1846
* ''Siphonaria jonasi''
Dunker, 1853: synonym of ''
Siphonaria pectinata
''Siphonaria pectinata'', common name the striped false limpet, is a species of air-breathing sea snail or false limpet, a marine heterobranch gastropod mollusc in the family Siphonariidae.
Taxonomic status
''Siphonaria pectinata'' (Linnaeus, ...
''
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Publications
Jonas sometimes also published as "J." H. Jonas.
He studied, together with
Wilhelm Dunker
Wilhelm Dunker, full name Wilhelm Bernhard Rudolph Hadrian Dunker (21 February 1809, Eschwege – 13 March 1885, Marburg) was a German geologist, paleontologist and zoologist (specifically a malacologist).
Wilhelm Dunker studied mining and ...
, the "Museum Gruneri", a large collection of species in the bivalve family
Pteriidae
Pteriidae, also called the feather oysters, is a family of medium-sized to large saltwater clams. They are pearl oysters, marine bivalve molluscs in the order Pteriida.
Some of the species in this family are important economically as the sou ...
. This study was published as ''Verzeichniß der Conchyliensammlung des verstorbenen Herrn Consul Gruner, welche im Ganzen verkauft werden soll von Bunsen Hausschild 1857. Bremer Druck 1857''.
In 1846 Jonas described the "Rodatz collection". Rodatz collected many mollusks during a number of commercial expeditions from Germany to
Zanzibar
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and
West Africa
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in the period of 184351, and from the
Red Sea
The Red Sea ( ar, البحر الأحمر - بحر القلزم, translit=Modern: al-Baḥr al-ʾAḥmar, Medieval: Baḥr al-Qulzum; or ; Coptic: ⲫⲓⲟⲙ ⲛ̀ϩⲁϩ ''Phiom Enhah'' or ⲫⲓⲟⲙ ⲛ̀ϣⲁⲣⲓ ''Phiom ǹšari''; T ...
in 1845. He had offered his specimens to .
[Jonas, I. H., 1846, Beitrag zur Erklärung der in der Description de l’Égypte abgebildeten, nebst Beschreibung einiger anderer im rothen Meer und den angrenzenden Ländern leben- den Mollusken. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie, 3(4+5+10): 59–64, 65–67, 120–127]
References
Collations of Malacological Significance; American Malacological Society
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1795 births
1851 deaths
German malacologists