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    Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther FRS, also Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther (3 October 1830 – 1 February 1914), was a German-born British zoologist...
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  • Albert Günther Göring (9 March 1895 – 20 December 1966) was a German engineer, businessman, and the younger brother of Hermann Göring (head of the German...
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    Bony-eared assfish (category Taxa named by Albert Günther)
    450 ft; 1,966 m). It was described in 1878 by German ichthyologist Albert Günther, who gave the species its scientific name. Armatus means "armed" in...
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    Pinta Island tortoise (category Taxa named by Albert Günther)
    tortoise native to Ecuador's Pinta Island. The subspecies was described by Albert Günther in 1877 after specimens arrived in London. By the end of the 19th century...
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    Black mamba (category Taxa named by Albert Günther)
    native to parts of sub-Saharan Africa. First formally described by Albert Günther in 1864, it is the second-longest venomous snake after the king cobra;...
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    Dugite (category Taxa named by Albert Günther)
    hospital and made a full recovery. The species was first described by Albert Günther in 1872. It is a member of the genus Pseudonaja, sometimes referred...
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    Cryptophis nigrescens (category Taxa named by Albert Günther)
    endemic to eastern Australia. Cryptophis nigrescens was described by Albert Günther in 1862, assigning the new species to Hoplocephalus. Cryptophis nigrescens...
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    Pseudonaja (category Taxa named by Albert Günther)
    subspecies are recognized: Pseudonaja affinis Günther, 1872 — dugite or spotted brown snake P. a. affinis Günther, 1872 — coastal mainland Western Australia...
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    Lowland copperhead (category Taxa named by Albert Günther)
    Biological Resources Study (22 August 2013). "Species Austrelaps superbus (Günther, 1858)". Australian Faunal Directory. Canberra, Australian Capital Territory:...
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    Red tegu (category Taxa named by Albert Günther)
    Salvator Species: S. rufescens Binomial name Salvator rufescens (Günther, 1871) Synonyms Teius rufescens Günther, 1871 Tupinambis rufescens Boulenger, 1885...
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    Ptyas carinata (category Taxa named by Albert Günther)
    doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T177503A1489928.en. "Ptyas carinata (Günther, 1858)". ubio.org. Retrieved 13 August 2014. "Ptyas carinata". Animal Diversity...
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    Heterocongrinae (category Taxa named by Albert Günther)
    E. Böhlke & Randall, 1981 Brown garden eel, Heteroconger longissimus Günther, 1870 Yellow garden eel, Heteroconger luteolus D. G. Smith, 1989 Mercy's...
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    Abyssal spiderfish (category Taxa named by Albert Günther)
    Class: Actinopterygii Order: Aulopiformes Family: Ipnopidae Genus: Bathypterois Species: B. longipes Binomial name Bathypterois longipes Günther, 1878...
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    Amblyopinae (category Taxa named by Albert Günther)
    Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Gobiiformes Family: Oxudercidae Subfamily: Amblyopinae Günther, 1861...
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    basket.Hamadryas elaps proposed by Albert Günther in 1858 were king cobra specimens from the Philippines and Borneo. Günther considered both N. bungarus and...
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  • Opostomias micripnus (category Taxa named by Albert Günther)
    Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans. The species was described in 1878 by Albert Günther. "Opostomias micripnus". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved...
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    Convict cichlid (category Taxa named by Albert Günther)
    and have also been the subject of numerous studies on fish behaviour. Albert Günther originally described the species in 1867 after Frederick DuCane Godman...
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    States, where he taught at Harvard University until his death in 1873. Albert Günther published his Catalogue of the Fish of the British Museum between 1859...
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    expedition of HMS Challenger during 1873–1876. It was first described by Albert Günther in 1887 in volume 22 of "Report on the deep-sea fishes collected by...
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    Black seadevil (category Taxa named by Albert Günther)
    Pietsch & Van Duzer, 1980 Melanocetus johnsonii Günther, 1864 (Humpback anglerfish) Melanocetus murrayi Günther, 1887 (Murray's abyssal anglerfish) Melanocetus...
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    George Boulenger and named after the German-born British zoologist Albert Günther. It is not known where in Sri Lanka the specimens were found. Nannophrys...
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    1856, from a specimen collected from Sydney. German-British zoologist Albert Günther described the species as Demansia annulata in 1858. Italian naturalist...
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    Humpback anglerfish (category Taxa named by Albert Günther)
    northwestern Africa, on December 24, 1863. It was then brought to Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther, keeper of zoology at the Natural History Museum in London...
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    Thomson's gazelle (category Taxa named by Albert Günther)
    Bovidae. Thomson's gazelle was first described by British zoologist Albert Günther in 1884. The relationships between Thomson's gazelle and the congeneric...
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    Fangtooth (category Taxa named by Albert Günther)
    Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Trachichthyiformes Family: Anoplogastridae T. N. Gill, 1893 Genus: Anoplogaster Günther, 1859...
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    Psychrolutes (category Taxa named by Albert Günther)
    occidentalis R. Fricke, 1990 (Western Australian sculpin) Psychrolutes paradoxus Günther, 1861 (Tadpole sculpin) Psychrolutes phrictus Stein & C. E. Bond, 1978...
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    Hucho (category Taxa named by Albert Günther)
    Class: Actinopterygii Order: Salmoniformes Family: Salmonidae Subfamily: Salmoninae Genus: Hucho Günther, 1866 Type species Hucho hucho Linnaeus, 1758...
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    Large-scaled water monitor (category Taxa named by Albert Günther)
    Reptilia Order: Squamata Family: Varanidae Genus: Varanus Subgenus: Soterosaurus Species: V. nuchalis Binomial name Varanus nuchalis (Günther, 1872)...
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    Galapagos racer (category Taxa named by Albert Günther)
    a viral trend. Originally classified as Herpetodryas biserialis by Albert Günther in 1860, this species has been renamed numerous times since then. The...
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    Acanthosaura capra (category Taxa named by Albert Günther)
    November 2021. * Günther, 1861 : Second list of Siamese reptiles. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 3, 8: 266-268 ([1]). Günther, 1861 : Second...
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