Louise Schilthuis (16 December 1863, Groningen – 27 January 1951,

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), also known as Lubbina Schilthuis, was a

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and a curator at the Zoology Museum at the

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. She was active in the late 19th century and published at least two papers, both describing new species, on the specimens collected in the Congo by M.A. Greshof, a Dutch collector and trader, on the amphibians in 1889 and on the fishes on 1891. Boulenger named the mormyrid '' Marcusenius schilthuisiae'' after her.

Bibliography

1889 On small collection of Amphibia from the Congo with a description of a new species ''Ned. Dierk. Ver Tijdschr'' 2 pp285-286

1890 On a collection of fishes from the Congo with descriptions of some new species ''Ned. Dierk. Ver Tijdschr'' 3 pp83-92

Taxa named

Among the taxa named by Schilthuis, she described the cichlid genus ''

Lamprologus ''Lamprologus'' is a genus of fishes from the cichlid family. They are native to Lake Tanganyika (where several species are shell dwellers) and the Congo River Basin in Africa. The type species for this genus is ''Lamprologus congoensis'', a spec ...

'' and its

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'' Lamprologus congoensis. She also described '' Synodontis angelicus'' in 1891.

References

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