Theodore Edward Cantor

Theodore Edward Cantor , also Theodor Edvard Cantor (* 1809 in Copenhagen , † 1860 in India ) was a Danish medic , zoologist and botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Cantor ".

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Theodore Edward Cantor graduated as a doctor of medicine in Halle in 1833 . From 1835 to 1839 he served as a doctor in the Bengal Medical Service . He collected plants from the Malay Peninsula and China . For example, Cantor gave the first description of the king cobra , the round-tailed macropod and the mouth-brooding fighting fish .

William Munro named the species Bambusa cantori from the plant genus Bambusa in his honor in 1868 .

Sketch of an undescribed hooded serpent with fangs and maxillar teeth . In: Asian. Res. Volume 19, Calcutta 1836, pp. 87-94 - first description of the king cobra
Description of a new species of Zygaena . In: Quarterly Journal of the Calcutta Medical and Physical Society . 1837, pp. 315-320
A notice of the Hamadryas, a genus of hooded serpent with poisonous fangs and maxillary teeth . In: Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London , 1838, pp. 72-75
Notes respecting some Indian fishes, collected, figured and described, etc. In: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal . Volume 8, 1838, pp. 165-172
Spicilegium serpentium indicorum . R. and JE Taylor, London 1839
General features of Chusan, with remarks on the flora and fauna of that island . Taylor, London 1842; archive.org
Catalog of Mammalia inhabiting the Malayan Peninsula and Islands, & c . In: Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal . Volume 15, 1846, pp. 171-203 and pp. 241-279
Catalog of Reptiles inhabiting the Malayan Peninsula and Islands, & c . Calcutta 1847, archive.org
Catalog of Malayan fishes . In: Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal . Volume 18, 1849, pp. 981-1443

Theodore Edward Cantor . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 3 : Brandt – Clavus . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1889, p. 352 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
James Britten, GS Boulger: A Biographical Index of British and Irish Botanists . West, Newman & Co, London 1893
Ray Desmond: Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturists . CRC Press, 1994, ISBN 0-85066-843-3 , p. 131

personal data
SURNAME	Cantor, Theodore Edward
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Cantor, Theodor Edvard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Danish medic, zoologist and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	1809
PLACE OF BIRTH	Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH	1860
Place of death	India