Paul Matschie Paul Matschie (11 August 1861, Brandenburg an der Havel – 7 March 1926,

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) was a German

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. He studied

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and

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at the Universities of

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and

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, afterwards working as an unpaid volunteer at the Berlin Zoological Museum under

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(1816–1906). In 1892 he was in charge of the department of

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at the museum, later becoming a

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(1895), and in 1902 attaining the title of professor. In 1924 he was appointed second director at the museum. During the years 1891–93, he described 11

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reptile Reptiles, as most commonly defined are the animals in the class Reptilia ( ), a paraphyletic grouping comprising all sauropsids except birds. Living reptiles comprise turtles, crocodilians, squamates ( lizards and snakes) and rhynchocephalia ...

s. A species of

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, '' Hemidactylus matschiei'' ( Tornier, 1901), is named in his honor. Matschie organized the fifth International Congress of Zoologists in Berlin and was for some years co-editor of the journal ''Natur und Haus''.

Matschie's tree-kangaroo Matschie's tree-kangaroo (''Dendrolagus matschiei''), also known as the Huon tree-kangaroo is a tree-kangaroo native to the Huon Peninsula of northeastern New Guinea island, within the nation of Papua New Guinea. Under the IUCN classification, ...

(''Dendrolagus matschiei'') and Matschie's galago (''Galago matschiei'') are two species of

mammal Mammals () are a group of vertebrate animals constituting the class Mammalia (), characterized by the presence of mammary glands which in females produce milk for feeding (nursing) their young, a neocortex (a region of the brain), fur ...

s which bear his name.

Selected writings

In German, except as noted: *''Die Säugthiere Deutsch-Ost-Afrikas'', 1895. *''Säugethiere'', 1898. *''Die Megachiroptera des Berliner Museums für Naturkunde'', 1899. *''Die Fledermäuse des Berliner Museums für Naturkunde, etc.'', 1899. *''Die Säugetiere der von W. Kükenthal auf

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und Nord-Celebes gemachten Ausbeute'' by Paul Matschie and W G Kükenthal, 1900. *''Le sanglier noir de l'

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ituriensis", 1906. (in French). *''Mammalia, Aves, Reptilia, Amphibia, Pisces'' by Paul Matschie, et al. 1909.World Cat Identities
(publications)

Sources

The eponym dictionary of mammals by Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson
(biographical information)

References

20th-century German zoologists German mammalogists 01 1861 births 1926 deaths German taxonomists Scientists active at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin People from Brandenburg an der Havel 19th-century German zoologists {{Germany-zoologist-stub