Evan Graham Turbott

Evan Graham Turbott (born May 27, 1914 in Auckland , New Zealand ; † December 12, 2014 ) was a New Zealand zoologist who researched herpetological, entomological and ornithological fields.

Live and act

In 1937 Turbott graduated with the thesis Some observations on the distribution and anatomy of Leiopelma hochstetteri Fitzinger at the University of New Zealand for a Master of Science. He then became a zoological assistant at the Auckland Museum and in 1946 a zoologist. In 1940 he married the ethnologist Olwyn Mary Rutherford. In 1944 he served as part of the Cape Expedition with a military unit for coastal observation on the sub-Antarctic Auckland Islands . During this time he published the book Year away: Wartime coastwatching on the Auckland Islands, 1944 in 2002 . In 1957 Turbott left the Auckland Museum and became assistant director of the Canterbury Museum in Christchurch . In 1964 he took over from Gilbert Archey (1890–1974) as director of the Auckland Institute and Museum, which he held until his retirement in 1979.

Turbott has been the lead author or co-author of several ornithological works, including New Zealand Bird Life (1947), Buller's Birds of New Zealand (2nd updated edition, 1967 as editor), A field guide to the birds of New Zealand and outlying Islands (1970, with Robert Alexander Falla ), The new guide to the birds of New Zealand and outlying islands (1979, with Robert Alexander Falla), Collins guide to the birds of New Zealand and outlying islands (1981, with Robert Alexander Falla) , Birds of New Zealand (1990, with Robert Alexander Falla) and Checklist of the birds of New Zealand and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica (1990)

In 1942 Turbott wrote the first scientific description of the archey frog ( Leiopelma archeyi ) from the New Zealand original frog family .

Honors

In 1977 Turbott was awarded the Queen's Service Order . Allan William Eden named Lake Turbott on Adams Island , the largest lake in the Auckland Islands, in honor of Evan Graham Turbott.

Dedication names

Turbott is honored in the type epithet of several insect species, some of which he had collected the holotypes or paratypes, including Phaeophanus turbotti (1942 by Don Spiller) Dicyrtomina turbotti (1948 by John Tenison Salmon ), Papillomurus turbotti (1949 by John Tenison Salmon) and Xenosciomyza turbotti (1955 by Roy Alexander Harrison ).

literature

Max Lambert: Who's Who in New Zealand, Issue 12, p. 649, Reed, 1991, ISBN 0-79000-130-6
Brian Gill : [Obituary] Evan Graham Turbott, M.Sc., QSO 1914-2014, Notornis 62 (1), 2015, pp. 51-56

Individual evidence

↑ Death report in The New Zealand Herald newspaper (English)

Web links

personal data
SURNAME	Turbott, Evan Graham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	New Zealand zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 27, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH	Auckland , New Zealand
DATE OF DEATH	December 12, 2014

[1] Death report in The New Zealand Herald newspaper (English)