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    Johann Baptist Ritter von Spix (9 February 1781 – 13 March 1826) was a German biologist. From his expedition to Brazil, he brought to Germany a large variety...
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    Pernambuco, Brazil in 1638 and it is named for German naturalist Johann Baptist von Spix, who collected a specimen in 1819 on the bank of the Rio São Francisco...
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  • Japanese Sophia University. The University of Bamberg created the Johann Baptist von Spix professorship in 2015. The professorship is named for an alumnus...
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    Johann Georg Wagler (28 March 1800 – 23 August 1832) was a German herpetologist and ornithologist. Wagler was assistant to Johann Baptist von Spix, and...
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    continued to devote himself to botanical study, and in 1817 he and Johann Baptist von Spix were sent to Brazil by Maximilian I Joseph, the king of Bavaria...
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    naturalist Johann Baptist von Spix (1782-1826). Four subspecies of Spix's guan are recognized, "Grant's" guan (P. j. granti) and the "Spix's guan" group...
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    species of bird in the family Passerellidae. First described by Johann Baptist von Spix in 1825, this American sparrow is found across much of the Amazon...
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    wing-patterns. The genus was introduced in 1825 by the German naturalist Johann Baptist von Spix. The name is from Latin columbinus meaning "of a dove" or "dove-like"...
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    named after Johann Baptist von Spix, the institution's founder and first curator, and is granted sporadically since the 200th birthday of von Spix, 1981. 2013...
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    Valenciennes, based on notes & illustrations of the specimen made by Johann Baptist von Spix and Louis Agassiz in 1829. The holotype skeleton was kept at the...
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    snails. The specific name spixii is in honour of German biologist Johann Baptist von Spix. Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. Bouchet, P. (2013). Asolene spixii...
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    Aratinga (category Taxa named by Johann Baptist von Spix)
    genus Aratinga was introduced in 1824 by the German naturalist Johann Baptist von Spix. The type species was subsequently designated as the sun parakeet...
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    outlined on the museum's home page together with a biography of Johann Baptist von Spix the first curator of zoology. Museum Witt Museum Witt Munich (MWM)...
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    tropics by Johann Baptist von Spix (1781–1826) and Carl von Martius (1794–1868) in the course of the Austrian Brazil Expedition, to join Baron von Langsdorff's...
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    Caiman (genus) (category Taxa named by Johann Baptist von Spix)
    Clade: Jacarea Genus: Caiman Spix, 1825 Type species Caiman crocodilus Linnaeus, 1758 Subgroups See text. Synonyms Jacaretinga Spix, 1825 Champsa Wagler, 1830...
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    Hairy-legged vampire bat (category Taxa named by Johann Baptist von Spix)
    was described by German biologist Johann Baptist von Spix in 1823. Spix first encountered the species in Brazil. Spix coined the genus name Diphylla (from...
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    foreign naturalists and scientists, such as Johann Baptist von Spix (1781-1826) and Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794-1868), and explored the flora...
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    Johann Christian Mikan and he was selected as the zoologist on the expedition and was accompanied by other naturalists including Johann Baptist von Spix...
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    Pied tamarin (category Taxa named by Johann Baptist von Spix)
    atual das populações selvagens do Sauim-de-coleira Saguinus b. bicolor (Spix, 1823). Dissertação de Mestrado — UNB. p. 98. Sobroza, Tainara Venturini;...
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    antbird was described and illustrated by the German naturalist Johann Baptist von Spix in 1825 and given the binomial name Thamnophilus striatus. The...
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    Crocodilurus (category Taxa named by Johann Baptist von Spix)
    1802) (Squamata: Teiidae)". Journal of Herpetology. 35 (2): 353–357. von Spix, J.B. (1825). Animalia nova sive species nova lacertarum quas in itinere...
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    Muriqui (category Taxa named by Johann Baptist von Spix)
    Atelidae Subfamily: Atelinae Genus: Brachyteles Spix, 1823 Type species Brachyteles macrotarsus Spix, 1823 Species Brachyteles arachnoides Brachyteles...
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    Synodus intermedius (category Taxa named by Johann Baptist von Spix)
    on benthic crustaceans, and cephalopods including squid and cuttlefish. von Spix, J. B.; Agassiz, L. 1829: Selecta genera et species piscium quos in itinere...
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    investigative studies of arthropods collected by Johann Baptist von Spix and Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius from an expedition in Brazil. In 1862, the...
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    Gymnodactylus (category Taxa named by Johann Baptist von Spix)
    Barbour, 1925 Gymnodactylus darwinii (Gray, 1845) Gymnodactylus geckoides Spix, 1825 Gymnodactylus guttulatus Vanzolini, 1982 Gymnodactylus vanzolinii Cassimiro...
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    river in 1743. Alexander von Humboldt, 1799–1804 Johann Baptist von Spix and Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, 1817–1820 Georg von Langsdorff, 1826–1828...
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  • Leposoma (category Taxa named by Johann Baptist von Spix)
    Rodrigues, 1997 Leposoma puk Rodrigues et al., 2002 Leposoma scincoides Spix, 1825 - skink tegu Leposoma sinepollex Rodrigues et al., 2013 "Leposoma"...
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    Kentropyx (category Taxa named by Johann Baptist von Spix)
    Kentropyx borckiana (W. Peters, 1869) – Guyana kentropyx Kentropyx calcarata Spix, 1825 – striped forest whiptail Kentropyx lagartija Gallardo, 1962 – Tucuman...
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    Burnished saki (category Taxa named by Johann Baptist von Spix)
    small portion of adjacent Brazil. It was described in 1823 by Johann Baptist von Spix, but was later merged with the monk saki (P. monachus). However...
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    many. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775–1854), his student Johann Baptist von Spix (1781–1826), and several others believed that a hidden and innate...
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