Leonhard Hess Stejneger (30 October 1851 – 28 February 1943) was a Norwegian-born American ornithologist, herpetologist and zoologist. Stejneger specialized...
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psychiatrist Jim Leonhard (1982– ), American football safety Leonhard Rauwolf (1535–1596), German physician and botanist Leonhard Stejneger (1851–1943), American...
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Baird's beaked whale (category Taxa named by Leonhard Stejneger)
beaked whales were first described in 1883 by American zoologist Leonhard Stejneger based on a skull from a specimen that had been found stranded on the...
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Speckled kingsnake (category Taxa named by Leonhard Stejneger)
the species previously described by Schlegel as Coluber sayi. In 1902, Stejneger pointed out that because Coluber sayi is a different snake, Pituophis...
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Leptotyphlopidae (category Taxa named by Leonhard Stejneger)
Suborder: Serpentes Infraorder: Scolecophidia Family: Leptotyphlopidae Stejneger, 1892 Subfamilies Epictinae Leptotyphlopinae Synonyms Stenostomata — Ritgen...
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United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for Leonhard Stejneger (1851–1943), American zoologist who made important investigations...
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Screamer (category Taxa named by Leonhard Stejneger)
Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Anseriformes Suborder: Anhimae Wetmore & Miller 1926 Family: Anhimidae Stejneger, 1885 Genera Anhima Chauna †Chaunoides...
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Trimeresurus stejnegeri (redirect from Stejneger's pit viper)
§ Common names below. The specific name, stejnegeri, is in honor of Leonhard Stejneger, the Norwegian-born, American herpetologist who worked at the Smithsonian...
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Florida sand skink (category Taxa named by Leonhard Stejneger)
United States. It was described as a new genus and new species by Leonhard Stejneger in 1910 and named in honor of a certain Mr. A.G. Reynolds of Gulfport...
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Scrubbird (category Taxa named by Leonhard Stejneger)
Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Atrichornithidae Stejneger, 1885 Genus: Atrichornis Stejneger, 1885 Type species Atrichia clamosa Gould, 1844 Species...
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specific name was chosen to honour the Norwegian born ornithologist Leonhard Stejneger. It was formerly considered to be conspecific with the white-winged...
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Hunter Bay Kadin Island William Henry Bay Golder, Frank Alfred and Leonhard Stejneger (1922). Bering's voyages: an account of the efforts of the Russians...
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Lark bunting (category Taxa named by Leonhard Stejneger)
under the name Fringilla bicolor. This is a preoccupied name, so Leonhard Hess Stejneger renamed the species in 1885 Calamospiza melanocorys. By then, the...
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Pituophis catenifer deserticola (category Taxa named by Leonhard Stejneger)
Linnean Society. 77 (2): 165–183. doi:10.1046/j.1095-8312.2002.00098.x. Stejneger, L. 1893. Annotated List of the Reptiles and Batrachians Collected by...
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Boiga kraepelini (category Taxa named by Leonhard Stejneger)
Jean-Jay (2010). "A record of the Taiwanese tree snake (Boiga kraepelini Stejneger, 1902) as prey of the many-banded krait Bungarus multicinctus multicinctus...
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Tailed frog (category Taxa named by Leonhard Stejneger)
be monotypic, the single species being the tailed frog (Ascaphus truei Stejneger, 1899). However, in that year, Nielson, Lohman, and Sullivan published...
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Guerreran horned lizard (category Taxa named by Leonhard Stejneger)
The Guerreran horned lizard (Phrynosoma sherbrookei) is a horned lizard species native to Mexico. The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org. Phrynosoma...
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member of the genus Mesoplodon inhabiting the North Pacific Ocean. Leonhard Hess Stejneger collected the type specimen (a beach-worn skull) on Bering Island...
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Nyctanassa was introduced in 1887 by the Norwegian born zoologist Leonhard Stejneger to accommodate a single species, the yellow-crowned night heron, which...
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spelling "Jacaneinae". The modern spelling "Jacanidae" was used by Leonhard Stejneger in 1885. The pronunciation of the word jacana is debated. Jacana is...
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Texas blind salamander (category Taxa named by Leonhard Stejneger)
27 April 2023. 32 FR 4001 Frost, Darrel R. (2021). "Eurycea rathbuni (Stejneger, 1896)". Amphibian Species of the World: An Online Reference. Version...
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Gastornithiformes (category Taxa named by Leonhard Stejneger)
Chordata Class: Aves Superorder: Galloanserae Order: †Gastornithiformes Stejneger, 1885 Subgroups †Gastornithidae ?†Brontornis ?†Dromornithidae ?†Sylviornithidae...
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the genus Canachites that was introduced in 1885 by the zoologist Leonhard Stejneger. The genus name Canachites combines the name Canace from Greek mythology...
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Alopochen (category Taxa named by Leonhard Stejneger)
Anseriformes Family: Anatidae Subfamily: Tadorninae Genus: Alopochen Stejneger, 1885 Synonyms Chenalopex Stephens 1824 non Vieillot 1818 Mascarenochen...
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Hemitheconyx (category Taxa named by Leonhard Stejneger)
Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 30 August 2021. "Hemitheconyx Stejneger, 1893". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 30 August 2021...
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for a wide variety of avialan groups since it was first named by Leonhard Stejneger in 1884. It was first defined as a clade in 1998 by Paul Sereno, who...
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Petrosaurus mearnsi (category Taxa named by Leonhard Stejneger)
Petrosaurus mearnsi (Stejneger, 1894) – its natural history, captive care and first breeding record". Sauria (Berlin) 40 (1): 58–74. Stejneger L (1894). "Description...
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Takydromus dorsalis (category Taxa named by Leonhard Stejneger)
dorsalis at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 31 May 2019. Stejneger,L. 1904. A new species of lizard from the Riu Kiu Archipelago, Japan....
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Florida scrub lizard (category Taxa named by Leonhard Stejneger)
(paperback), ISBN 0-307-47009-1 (hardcover). (Sceloporus woodi, pp. 122–123). Stejneger L (1918). "Description of a New Snapping Turtle and a New Lizard from...
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with the combination Caretta caretta first introduced in 1873 by Leonhard Stejneger. The English common name "loggerhead" refers to the animal's large...
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