Lothar Forcart, full name Lothar Hendrich Emil Wilhelm Forcart-Müller,[1] abbreviated as Lothar H. E. W. Forcart, (1902-1990)[2] was a zoologist, malacologist, and herpetologist[3][4] from Switzerland.

He is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of snake, Calamaria forcarti.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Verdcourt B (1991). "Lothar Forcart 1902-1990". Journal of Conchology 34 (1): 37-38. HTM.
  2. ↑ Coan EV, Kabat AR, Petit RE (15 February 2009). 2,400 years of malacology, 6th ed. Archived 2018-10-05 at the Wayback Machine, 830 pp. & 32 pp. [Annex of Collations]. American Malacological Society.
  3. ↑ Forcart, Lothar (1950). "Amphibien und Reptilien von Iran ". Verh. naturf. Ges. Basel 61: 141-156.
  4. ↑ Forcart, Lothar (1951). "Nomenclature Remarks on Some Generic Names of the Snake Family Boidae". Herpetologica 7: 197-199.
  5. ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Forcart", p. 92).

Further reading

  • Wütrich M, Zilch A, Turner H (1993). "Lothar Forcart (1902-1990)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 121 (1-6): 1-13.


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