Johannes Govertus de Man
Johannes Govertus de Man (born May 2, 1850 in Middelburg , Province of Zeeland , Kingdom of the Netherlands ; † January 9, 1930 ibid) was a Dutch biologist .
Life
After completing his doctorate on vertebrates, De Man was deputy curator of the collections of the Dutch Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie , the national museum of natural history in the university city of Leiden, for eleven years . There he turned in the course of time to topics from the field of invertebrates. His specialties were roundworms and decapod crabs . Other works dealt with the types of flatworms and sprayworms .
De Man evaluated the results of the Siboga expedition from 1899 to 1900, which was carried out in the Dutch East Indies under the direction of Max Wilhelm Carl Weber . He could describe dozens of new species.
De Man spent his last years doing research in a house on the Oosterschelde , supported by income from family assets.
About 50 taxa are named after de Man , such as the multi-colored lobster Panulirus demani , a synonym for Panulirus versicolor .
Taxa named by de Man
- Geosesarma De Man, 1892
- Indo-Pacific white-banded cleaner shrimp Lysmata amboinensis De Man, 1888
- Hollow back shrimp Thor amboinensis De Man, 1888.
Publications
- Volume 6 of the Recherches sur la faune de Madagascar et de ses dépendences d'après les découvertes de PLPollen et de DC Van Dam , JK Steenhoff (EJBrill), Leiden 1866–1877, Mollusques .
- Report on the Dr. J. Brock in the Indian archipelago collected decapods and stomatopods , in Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin 1888, volume 53, pages 215-600.
- Diagnoses of New Species of Macrurous Decapod Crustacea from the Siboga-Expedition, pt. 2 in: Notes from the Leyden Museum, vol. XXIX 1907, pages 127 to 276.
literature
- Gerrit Karssen: Life and Work of Dr. DJ de Man, a Crustaceae and Nematoda Specialist . Brill, Leiden 2006, ISBN 978-90-0414-969-4 .
Web links
- Biography , prepared by the International Federation of Nematology Societies (English)
- Works of the scientist (en.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The world is full of worms in Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung on May 8, 2014, pages 58 and 59
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Man, Johannes Govertus de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch biologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 2, 1850 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Middelburg , Province of Zeeland , Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 9, 1930 |
| Place of death | Middelburg , Province of Zeeland , Kingdom of the Netherlands |