Pieter Cornelius Tobias Snellen (30 August 1832 – 29 March 1911) was a Dutch
entomologist
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.
Pieter Snellen was a merchant in
Rotterdam
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. He is not to be confused with
Samuel Constantinus Snellen van Vollenhoven
Samuel Constant Snellen van Vollenhoven (18 October 1816, Rotterdam – 22 March 1880) was a Dutch entomologist. He is not to be confused with Pieter Cornelius Tobias Snellen another entomologist from Rotterdam.
He was curator of the entomologic ...
, another entomologist from Rotterdam.
Works
*Lepidoptera / door P.C.T. Snellen met eene inleidung door Joh. F. Snelleman. Leiden, Brill,189
online at BHL*''The Rhopalocera of
Java
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.'' with
Murinus Cornelius Piepers
Marinus Cornelius Piepers (1836 – 1919 in The Hague) was a Dutch entomologist and lawyer.
Piepers studied law in Leiden and obtained his doctorate in 1859.''The Rhopalocera of Java' with Pieter Cornelius Tobias Snellen and Hans Fruhstorfer
Ha ...
and
Hans Fruhstorfer
Hans Fruhstorfer (7 March 1866, in Passau, Germany – 9 April 1922, in Munich) was a German explorer, insect trader and entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. He collected and described new species of exotic butterflies, especially in Ada ...
. The Hague,M. Nijhoff 1909-18
onlineat
Biodiversity Heritage Library
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Four volumes.
*Snellen, P.C.T. 1872 Bijdrage tot de Vlinder-Faune van Neder-Guinea, zuidwestelijk gedeelte van Afrika. ''Tidschrift voor Entomologie'' 15:1-112.
*Snellen, P.C.T. 1882 Aanteekeningen over Afrikaanische Lepidoptera. ''Tidschrift voor Entomologie'' 25:215-234.
References
*Anonym. 1911
nellen, P. C. T. ''
Entomologist's Monthly Magazine
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'' (3), London 11
External links
Gaedicke in Groll, E. K. (Hrsg.): Biografien der Entomologen der Welt : Datenbank. Version 4.15 : Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, 2010.
Dutch lepidopterists
1832 births
1911 deaths
Scientists from Rotterdam
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