Fritz Sarasin, full name Karl Friedrich Sarasin (3 December 1859 – 23 March 1942) was a
Swiss
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* Swiss people
Places
* Swiss, Missouri
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Other uses
*Swiss-system tournament, in various games and sports
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second cousin
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Sulawesi
Sulawesi (), also known as Celebes (), is an island in Indonesia. One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the world's eleventh-largest island, it is situated east of Borneo, west of the Maluku Islands, and south of Mindanao and the Sulu Ar ...
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Taxon named in his honor
Paul and Fritz Sarasin are commemorated in the
scientific names
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Correlophus sarasinorum
''Correlophus sarasinorum'', also called commonly Roux's giant gecko, Sarasins' giant gecko, Sarasin's icgiant gecko (incorrectly), and the suras gecko, is a species of lizard in the family Diplodactylidae. The species is native to the southe ...
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Nessia sarasinorum
''Nessia sarasinorum'', commonly known as Sarasins's snake skink or Müller's nessia, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to the island of Sri Lanka.
Etymology
The specific name, ''sarasinorum'', is in hono ...
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Pseudorabdion sarasinorum
''Pseudorabdion'' is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae.
Geographic range
Species in the genus ''Pseudorabdion'' are found in Southeast Asia.
Species
The following 15 species are recognized as being valid.
* '' Pseudorabdion albonuchali ...
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*'' Sphenomorphus sarasinorum''.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Sarasin", p. 233).
And fish:
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Sarasin's goby
''Mugilogobius sarasinorum'', Sarasin's goby, is a species of goby endemic to Lake Poso in Sulawesi, Indonesia. This species can reach a length of TL. It is important to local commercial fisheries and the fishing community.
Etymology
The fis ...
''Mugilogobius sarasinorum'' is named in the cousins honor.
There are seven species, two genera and one subfamily of harvestmen named after them.
Bibliography
He has published some of scientific works together with
Paul Sarasin
Paul Sarasin, full name Paul Benedict Sarasin (11 December 1856 – 7 April 1929) was a Swiss people, Swiss naturalist and ethnologist. He is known as founder of National parks in Switzerland.Roux J. (eds.) (1913–1918). "Nova Caledonia. Forschungen in Neu-Caledonien und auf den Loyalty-Inseln. Recherches scientifiques en Nouvelle-Calédonie et aux iles Loyalty". Wiesbaden.
** (1913) A. Zoologie. Volume I. ** (1915) A. Zoologie. Volume II. ** (1923) A. Zoologie. Volume III. ** (1925) A. Zoologie. Volume IV. * ''Aus einem glücklichen Leben. Biographische Notizen'', Frobenius AG, Basel 1941.