Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller (25 April 1725 – 5 January 1776) was a German
zoologist
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.
Statius Müller was born in
Esens, and was a professor of natural science at
Erlangen
Erlangen (; East Franconian German, East Franconian: ''Erlang'', Bavarian language, Bavarian: ''Erlanga'') is a Middle Franconian city in Bavaria, Germany. It is the seat of the administrative district Erlangen-Höchstadt (former administrative d ...
. Between 1773 and 1776, he published a German translation of
Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...
's ''
Natursystem''. The supplement in 1776 contained the first
scientific classification
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A taxonomy (or taxonomical classification) is a scheme of classification, especially a hierarchical classification, in which things are organized into groups or types. ...
for a number of species, including the
dugong
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,
guanaco
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Etymology
The guanaco g ...
,
potto
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Etymology
The common name "potto" may be from Wolof (a ta ...
,
tricolored heron
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,
umbrella cockatoo
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,
red-vented cockatoo
The red-vented cockatoo (''Cacatua haematuropygia''), also known as the Philippine cockatoo and locally katala, abukay, agay or kalangay, is a species of cockatoo. It is endemic to the Philippines though pressured by various environmental degradat ...
, and the enigmatic
hoatzin
The hoatzin ( ) or hoactzin ( ), (''Opisthocomus hoazin''), is the only species in the order Opisthocomiformes. It is a species of tropical bird found in swamps, riparian forests, and mangroves of the Amazon and the Orinoco basins in South Ameri ...
. He was also an
entomologist
Entomology () is the 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 as arach ...
.
Müller died in Erlangen.
He is not to be confused with
Salomon Müller Salomon Müller (7 April 1804 – 29 December 1864) was a German naturalist. He was born in Heidelberg, and died in Freiburg im Breisgau.
Müller was the son of a saddler in Heidelberg. Along with Heinrich Boie and Heinrich Christian Macklot, he ...
(1804–1864), also an ornithologist, or with
Otto Friedrich Müller
Otto Friedrich Müller, also known as Otto Friedrich Mueller (2 November 1730 – 26 December 1784) was a Danish naturalist and scientific illustrator.
Biography
Müller was born in Copenhagen. He was educated for the church, became tutor to a yo ...
.
Works
*Statius Müller, P. L. 1776. ''Des Ritters Carl von Linné Königlich Schwedischen Leibarztes &c. &c. vollständigen Natursystems Supplements- und Register-Band über alle sechs Theile oder Classen des Thierreichs. Mit einer ausführlichen Erklärung. Nebst drey Kupfertafeln''.Nürnberg. (Raspe).
References
*Anonym 1776:
uller, P. L. S. ''Besch. Berlin. Ges. Naturf. Fr''. 2 584-592
*Evenhuis, N. L. 1997 ''Litteratura taxonomica dipterorum'' (1758-1930). Volume 1 (A-K); Volume 2 (L-Z). Leiden, Backhuys Publishers.
German entomologists
German ornithologists
1725 births
1776 deaths
German taxonomists
People from Erlangen
18th-century German zoologists
18th-century German male writers
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