Harald Pieper (zoologist)

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Harald Pieper (born February 21, 1942 in Berlin ) is a German zoologist and paleontologist .

Life

In the 1960s Pieper carried out research on salamanders, bats and their parasites as well as on snails in Greece, especially on Karpathos and Crete . In 1963 he described the salamander species Lyciasalamandra helverseni from the island of Karpathos. In 1968 he was with the dissertation The Clausiliiden (minor, Gastropoda) of the Greek island of Karpathos. A contribution to the problem of the subspecies concept at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel for Dr. rer. nat. PhD.

In 1978 Pieper described the Shrew type Crocidura ariadne from the island of Crete, with the but today shrew ( Crocidura suaveolens ) synonymised is

Between September 1979 and 1994 Pieper undertook twelve paleontological and zoological excursions to Madeira and Porto Santo . Between 1981 and 1990 he published four scientific articles on Madeira's animals in the journals Bocagiana and Boletim do Museu Municipal do Funchal . In 1981 the article A subfossil occurrence of the house mouse [ Mus musculus (sl)] on Madeira appeared on subfossil bone finds of a house mouse population that occurred around 1036 AD on the Ponta de São Lourenço peninsula . The article The Pseudoscorpions of Madeira and Neighboring Islands (1981) deals with the pseudoscorpions that Pieper collected in September 1979, April 1980 and April 1981. The 1985 publication The Fossil Land Birds of Madeira and Porto Santo deals with Madeira's subfossil avifauna , including railings, pigeons, quail, and some passerines. Furthermore, the sternum bone of a giant alc was discovered there, which makes Madeira the southernmost point of the range of this species. The work New records of pseudoscorpions from the Madeiran Islands (1990) deals with the three pseudoscorpion species Calocheirus mirus , Geogarypus minor and Apocheiridium ferum , which were first detected on Madeira in 1980 and 1984.

In April 1983 Pieper and a few colleagues went on an excursion to the Greek island of Armathia , where numerous bones of birds and mammals were found during the recording of the caves and other karst objects. The Stuttgart paleontologist Thomas Rathgeber discovered the skull of a fossil hamster species that Pieper described in 1984 as Mesocricetus rathgeberi .

In 2012, together with Storrs Lovejoy Olson , Josep Antoni Alcover and Juan Carlos Rando, he described the subfossil remains of the extinct Madeira scops owl ( Otus mauli ), which were collected between 1984 and 1994. Fragments of a similar or identical taxon have been found on Porto Santo.

In 2013, in collaboration with Olson, Alcover and Rando, he described the subfossil scops owl species Otus frutuosoi from the Azores island of São Miguel , the remains of which were discovered in 2011.

In 2015, together with Alcover, Fernando Pereira and Rando, he described the subfossil rall species Rallus lowei and Rallus adolfocaesaris from Madeira and Porto Santo as well as Rallus carvaoensis , Rallus montivagorum and Rallus nanus from the Azores. The type material is based on finds that were made in Madeira and Porto Santo in the 1980s and 1990s and in the Azores in 2012, 2013 and 2014.

In 2017, together with Olson, Alcover, Pereira and Rando, he described the subfossil finch species Pyrrhula crassa from the Azores island of Graciosa , which was a close relative of the recent Azores bullfinch . The subfossil remains were collected in 2015.

Dedication names

In 1965 Otto von Helversen named the pseudoscorpion species Diplotemnis pieperi from the Ilhas Selvagens after Harald Pieper. In 1973, Adolf Riedel described the snail species Oxychilus pieperi from the Greek island of Gavdos , which was discovered by Pieper in 1971. In 1975, Rainer Willmann named the beak fly species Panorpa pieperi from Turkey in honor of Harald Pieper. In 1977 the Hungarian malacologist László Ernő Pintér (1942–2002) described the possibly extinct snail species Vitrea pieperiana , which Harald Pieper discovered in 1970 near Volada on Karpathos. In 1980 Hartwig Schütt named the snail species Pseudamnicola pieperi after Pieper, who discovered this taxon in 1977. In 1990 the entomologist Dieter Erber (1933-2004) named the beetle species Thalassophilus pieperi from Madeira in honor of Harald Pieper. 1995 described Helmut narrow foot the Assel -Art Armadillidium pieperi of the Greek peninsula Sithonia and Kassandra . Peter Subai honored Pieper in 1996 in the type epithet of the snail species Chilostoma pieperi (synonym: Helicigona pieperi ) from the Greek island of Kasos . In 2014 the pseudoscorpion species Roncus pieperi from the Greek island of Kefalonia was named by Volker Mahnert and Giulio Gardini .

literature

  • Eberhard Axel Wilhelm: Dieter Erber (1933-2004). A Tribute to a German Expert on Madeiran Beetles In: Boletim do Museu Municipal do Funchal (História Natural), 57 (315) 2006, pp. 5–10 (short biography about Harald Pieper on page 8).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald Pieper: A new Mertensiella form from the Greek island of Karpathos (Amphibia, Salamandridae). - Senckenbergiana Biologica, Frankfurt / M., 44 (6), 1963, pp. 441-446
  2. ↑ Harald Pieper: A new Mesocricetus species (Mammalia: Cricetidae) from the Greek island of Armathia . Stuttgart Contributions to Natural History. Series B; 107, 1984, pp. 1-9.
  3. ↑ Juan Carlos Rando, Harald Pieper, Josep Antoni Alcover, Storrs L. Olson: A new species of extinct fossil scops owl (Aves: Strigiformes: Strigidae: Otus) from the Archipelago of Madeira (North Atlantic Ocean) . Zootaxa 3182, 2012, pp. 29-42.
  4. ↑ Juan Carlos Rando, Josep Antoni Alcover, Storrs L. Olson, Harald Pieper: A new species of extinct scops owl (Aves: Strigiformes: Strigidae: Otus) from São Miguel Island (Azores Archipelago), North Atlantic Ocean Zootaxa. 3647 (2), 2013, pp. 343-357
  5. ^ Josep Antoni Alcover, Harald Pieper, Fernando Pereira, Juan Carlos Rando: Five new extinct species of rails (Aves: Gruiformes: Rallidae) from the Macaronesian Islands (North Atlantic Ocean). Zootaxa 4057 (2), 2015, pp. 151-200.
  6. ↑ Josep Antoni Alcover, Harald Pieper, Fernando Pereira, Juan Carlos Rando: Rallus nanus nomen novum: a replacement name for Rallus minutus Alcover et al. 2015. Zootaxa 4085 (1), 2016, pp. 141–142.
  7. ↑ Juan Carlos Rando, Harald Pieper, Storrs L. Olson, Fernando Pereira, Josep Antoni Alcover: A new extinct species of large bullfinch (Aves: Fringillidae: Pyrrhula) from Graciosa Island (Azores, North Atlantic Ocean) Zootaxa 4282 (3), 2017, pp. 567-583
personal data
SURNAME Pieper, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin