Gordon Barclay Corbet

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Gordon Barclay Corbet (born March 4, 1933 in Dundee , Scotland ) is a Scottish Mammaloge .

Life

Corbet is the son of George and Mary Corbet. After graduating from Morgan Academy in Dundee, he studied zoology between September 1955 and August 1958 at University College Dundee , Queen's College and finally at the University of St Andrews , where he completed his dissertation in 1960 with the dissertation The distribution, variation and ecology of voles in the Scottish Highlands for Ph.D. received his doctorate. From 1958 to 1959 he was an assistant professor at Sir John Cass College in London. In 1959 he married Elizabeth Urquhart. From this marriage a son and a daughter were born. From 1960 to 1971 he was a senior scientist at the Natural History Museum in London. From 1971 to 1976 he was deputy head of the zoological department of the Natural History Museum. From June 1976 until his retirement in 1992 he was the director of the central office of the Natural History Museum.

In addition to several books on the mammals of Great Britain, Corbet and John Edwards Hill published a work on the mammals of the Indomalayan region and a list of the mammals of the world. He also described four mammalian taxa , including Choeropsis liberiensis heslopi (subspecies of dwarf hippo , which is now considered extinct applies) Petrodromus tetradactylus zanzibaricus (subspecies of the trunk rat ) Rhynchocyon cirnei shirensis (subspecies of spotted snout puppy dog ) and Paradoxurus hermaphroditus dongfangensis (a subspecies of the Asian Palm Civet ).

Fonts (selection)

  • The Terrestrial Mammals of Western Europe , 1966
  • The Identification of British Mammals , 1969
  • Finding and Identifying Mammals in Britain , 1975
  • A Review of the Family Canidae, with a Classification by Numerical Methods (with Juliet Clutton-Brock and Michael Hills), 1976
  • The Handbook of British Mammals , 2nd edition (with Henry Neville Southern), 1977, 3rd edition (with Stephen Harris), 1991
  • The Mammals of the Palaearctic Region , 1978
  • Town and Gardens (with Dennis Owen, Franklyn and Margaret Perring, Paul Whalley, Frederick Wanless, Roger Lincoln and James Ferguson-Lees ), 1978
  • Collins Handguide to the Wild Animals of Britain and Europe (with Nicholas Arnold and Denys Ovenden), 1979
  • The Mammals of Britain and Europe , 1980 (German: Parey's Book of Mammals. All wild mammals of Europe , 1982, translation by Richard Kraft)
  • The Family Erinaceidae: A Synthesis of Its Taxonomy, Phylogeny, Ecology and Zoogeography , 1988
  • A World List of Mammalian Species (with John Edwards Hill ), 1st edition 1980, 2nd edition 1986, 3rd edition 1991
  • The Mammals of the Indomalayan Region: A Systematic Review (with John Edwards Hill), 1992
  • The Nature of Fife , 1998

literature

  • Who's Who 2017, A&C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, Nov 2016 CORBET, Dr. Gordon Barclay , accessed July 25, 2017.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ GB Corbet: The taxonomic status of the Pygmy hippopotamus, Choeropsis liberiensis, from the Niger Delta Journal of Zoology, Volume 158, Issue 3, July 1969, pp. 387-394
  2. ^ GB Corbet, BR Neal: The taxonomy of the elephant shrews of the genus Petrodromus, with particular reference to the East African coast. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaine 71: p. 49-78.
  3. ^ GB Corbet, J. Hanks: A revision of the elephant-shrews, family Macroscelididae. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology 16: p. 45-111.
personal data
SURNAME Corbet, Gordon Barclay
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish mammal loge
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Dundee , Scotland