Emilio Budin

Emilio Budin (born June 17, 1877 in Geneva ; died October 19, 1935 in Buenos Aires , Argentina ) was a naturalist and animal collector from Switzerland and living in South America.

life and work

Emilio Budin was born in Geneva in 1877 and moved to Argentina with his parents as a child . He was active as a naturalist and collector of animals for various museums, especially the Natural History Museum in London and the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales in Buenos Aires . In 1897 he participated as a collector in Juan B. Ambrossetti's expedition to the Calchaquí valleys. In 1903 he worked as a collector and expedition organizer at the Agricultural School of San Miguel de Tucumán .

Some of his collecting trips in Argentina and bordering Bolivia were financed by the British businessman John Spedan Lewis as "The Spedan Lewis South American Exploration", many of the animals he collected were used by Oldfield Thomas , Jane St. Leger and others for the first scientific description .

Dedication names

In honor of Budin, some animal species from Bolivia and Argentina were named primarily by Oldfield Thomas . The Budin crested rat ( Ctenomys budini Thomas, 1913 ), the South American field mouse Akodon budini Thomas, 1913 and the Budin chinchilla rat ( Abrocoma budini Thomas, 1920 ) have corresponding dedication names . Jane St. Leger , who works with Thomas at the Natural History Museum, named the Emilio Budin Combed Rat ( Ctenomys emilianus St. Leger, 1926 ) after Budin and the Leopardus pajeros budini ( Pocock , 1941 ) was named after him.

supporting documents

^ ^A ^b Rubén M. Barquez: Viajes de Emilio Budin: La expedición al Chaco, 1906-1907. Edition: Mastozoologia Neotropical Publicaciones Especiales 1, Sociedad Argentina para el Estudio de los Mammaferos, June 1997 (Project: Sistemática y distribución de los murciélagos de Argentina. )
↑ Oldfield Thomas : The Spedan Lewis South American exploration - I. On mammals from Southern Bolivia , Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Series 9, Volume 15, 1925; Pp. 575-582. doi : 10.1080 / 00222932508633250 .
↑ ^a ^b Bo Beolens, Michael Grayson, Michael Watkins: The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009; P. 1; ISBN 978-0-8018-9304-9 .

personal data
SURNAME	Budin, Emilio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Naturalist and animal collector
DATE OF BIRTH	June 17, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH	Geneva
DATE OF DEATH	October 19, 1935
Place of death	Buenos Aires , Argentina

[Barquez_1997-1] A ^b Rubén M. Barquez: Viajes de Emilio Budin: La expedición al Chaco, 1906-1907. Edition: Mastozoologia Neotropical Publicaciones Especiales 1, Sociedad Argentina para el Estudio de los Mammaferos, June 1997 (Project: Sistemática y distribución de los murciélagos de Argentina. )

[Thomas_1925-2] Oldfield Thomas : The Spedan Lewis South American exploration - I. On mammals from Southern Bolivia , Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Series 9, Volume 15, 1925; Pp. 575-582. doi : 10.1080 / 00222932508633250 .

[Beolens_et_al._2009-3] Bo Beolens, Michael Grayson, Michael Watkins: The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009; P. 1; ISBN 978-0-8018-9304-9 .