Louise Schilthuis

Louise Schilthuis (16 December 1863, Groningen – 27 January 1951, The Hague),[1] also known as Lubbina Schilthuis, was a Dutch zoologist and a curator at the Zoology Museum at the University of Utrecht.[2] She was active in the late 19th century and published at least two papers, both describing new species,[3] on the specimens collected in the Congo by M.A. Greshof, a Dutch collector and trader,[4] on the amphibians in 1889 and on the fishes on 1891. Boulenger named the mormyrid Marcusenius schilthuisiae after her.[5]

Bibliography

Taxa named

Lamprologus congoensis, named by Schilthuis

Among the taxa named by Schilthuis, she described the cichlid genus Lamprologus and its type species Lamprologus congoensis.[6]

She also described Synodontis angelicus in 1891.

References

  1. ^ "Algemeen Handelsblad". Algemeen Handelsblad (in Dutch). Delpher Kranten. 30 January 1951. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
  2. ^ "Nederlandsche staatscourant". Nederlandsche Staatscourant (in Dutch). Delpher Kranten. 31 December 1887. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
  3. ^ Mary R. S. Creese (2004). Ladies in the Laboratory II: West European Women in Science, 1800-1900 : a Survey of Their Contributions to Research. Scarecrow Press. p. 267. ISBN 0810849798.
  4. ^ "Synodontis greshoffi". Allan James. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
  5. ^ "Order OSTEOGLOSSIFORMES". The ETYFish Project. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara. 2017. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
  6. ^ Robert C. Schelly; Melanie L.J. Stiassny (2004). "Revision of the Congo River Lamprologus Schilthuis, 1891 (Teleostei: Cichlidae), with Descriptions of Two New Species" (PDF). American Museum Novitates (3541).