Cecil Boden Kloss

Cecil Boden Kloss (born March 28, 1877 in Acocks Green , Warwickshire , † August 19, 1949 in Chichester , Sussex ) was an English zoologist. His specialty were the mammals and birds of Southeast Asia.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Kloss accompanied the American natural scientist William Louis Abbott on an expedition to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. During the years 1912/1913 Kloss took part as a zoologist on an expedition to New Guinea led by the medic and explorer Sandy Wollaston . Starting from 1908 he worked under Herbert Christopher Robinson at the museum in Kuala Lumpur . From 1923 to 1932 he was director of the Raffles Museum in Singapore. His successor in this office was Frederick Nutter Chasen .

Designations

A number of plants and animals are named after Kloss. These include:

Plants:

Eugenia klossii , plant endemic to Malaysia
Nepenthes klossii , plant endemic to New Guinea
Begonia klossii , begonia
Rungia klossii , New Guinea plant
Cyathea klossii , tree fern found in western New Guinea
Adiantum klossii , fern

Mammals:

Hylobates klossii , Kloss Gibbon
Euroscaptor klossi , Kloss mole

Birds:

Langbianalcippe ( Schoeniparus klossi Delacour & Jabouille , 1931)
Hunting magpie ( Cissa chinensis klossi Delacour & Jabouille , 1924)
Bubo coromandus klossii Robinson , 1911, subspecies of the Coromandeluhus

Reptiles:

Emoia klossi , skink
Gonocephalus klossi , an angular headed dragon in Sumatra

Fimbrios klossi , Asiatic snake

Hydrophis klossi , Asiatic sea snake

Publications (selection)

In the Andamans and Nicobars; The narrative of a cruise in the schooner "Terrapin", with notices of the islands, their fauna, ethnology, etc., (1903)
Herbert Christopher Robinson, Cecil Boden Kloss: Nine new oriental birds . In: Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums . tape 10 , no. 3 , 1921, pp. 203-206 ( online [accessed March 17, 2017]).
Herbert Christopher Robinson, Cecil Boden Kloss: On Birds from South Annan and Cochin China . In: The Ibis (= 11 ). tape 1 , no. 22 , 1911, pp. 392–453 ( online [accessed March 17, 2017]).

Web links

Individual evidence

^ E. Banks: Obituary: Cecil Boden-Kloss. Archived from the original on September 24, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: The Bulletin of the Raffles Museum . December 23, 1950, pp. 336-346. Retrieved March 17, 2016. @1@ 2

^ Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society . Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. 1932. Retrieved March 17, 2017.

↑ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5 . ("Kloss", p. 143).

personal data
SURNAME	Kloss, Cecil Boden
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 28, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH	Acocks Green , Warwickshire
DATE OF DEATH	August 19, 1949
Place of death	Chichester , Sussex

[1] E. Banks: Obituary: Cecil Boden-Kloss. Archived from the original on September 24, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: The Bulletin of the Raffles Museum . December 23, 1950, pp. 336-346. Retrieved March 17, 2016. @1@ 2

[2] Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society . Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. 1932. Retrieved March 17, 2017.

[3] Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5 . ("Kloss", p. 143).