Israel Heymann Jonas

Israel Heymann Jonas (1795-1851) was a German malacologist. He studied medicine at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel, Prussia.[1]

Species named by Jonas

The World Register of Marine Species has 53 records of marine species named by Jonas.[2] Most of these names have become synonyms, except:

Species named in honor of Jonas

Hombron & Jacquinot naming a genus Jonas in honor of him; this is a crab genus in the family Corystidae. A number of marine gastropod species use the epithet "jonasii" or jonasi in his honor.[3]

Publications

Jonas sometimes also published as "J." H. Jonas.[4]

He studied, together with Wilhelm Dunker, the "Museum Gruneri", a large collection of species in the bivalve family Pteriidae. This study was published as Verzeichniß der Conchyliensammlung des verstorbenen Herrn Consul Gruner, welche im Ganzen verkauft werden soll von Bunsen Hausschild 1857. Bremer Druck 1857. [5]

In 1846 Jonas described the "Rodatz collection". Rodatz collected many mollusks during a number of commercial expeditions from Germany to Zanzibar and West Africa in the period of 184351, and from the Red Sea in 1845. He had offered his specimens to Naturhistorisches Museum Hamburg.[6]

References

  1. Das Album der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel 1665 - 1865 : Isreal Heymann Jonas
  2. WoRMS: Species named by Jonas
  3. WoRMS: Species with the epithet jonasii
  4. Coan, Eugene V.; Kabat, Alan R. 2,400 Years of Malacology (PDF) (12th ed.). American Malacological Society. p. 595.
  5. Ilya Tëmkin, Matthias Glaubrecht & Frank Köhler: Wilhelm Dunker, his collection, and pteriid systematics; Malacologia, 2009, 51(1): 39−79
  6. Jonas, I. H., 1846, Beitrag zur Erklärung der in der Description de l’Égypte abgebildeten, nebst Beschreibung einiger anderer im rothen Meer und den angrenzenden Ländern leben- den Mollusken. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie, 3(4+5+10): 59–64, 65–67, 120–127
  1. "The Code Online". International Council of Zoological Nomenclature.
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