Wim Bergmans
Wim Bergmans (born February 11, 1940 in Amsterdam ; † February 16, 2018 there ) was a Dutch zoologist .
Life
Bergmans began his career as a freelance artist. At the beginning of the 1960s he became an employee of the mollusc department of the Zoological Museum Amsterdam . From 1971 to 1980 he was assistant curator at the mammal department of the Zoological Museum Amsterdam. From 1981 to 1983 he was a guest curator in the herpetological department. In 2001 he was a visiting curator at the mammals department. In 2008 he retired.
In 1984 Bergmans became a member of the IUCN National Committee of the Netherlands. In 1997 he became scientific director of the committee. He was also a member of the IUCN Species Survival Commission research group for bats .
In the 1960s and 1970s Bergmans published numerous scientific papers on the taxonomy and biogeography of the clam family Nuculidae . In 1978 he established the genus Rumptunucula , which is now considered a subgenus of Nucula , and he described eight new species from the genera Nucula , Austronucula , Cratis , Pronucula and Linucula . From the early 1970s he devoted himself increasingly to the African fruit bats , which he his doctoral thesis entitled in 1988 Taxonomy and Biogeography of African Fruit Bats (Mammalia, Megachiroptera) wrote. Bergmans was among the first to describe about a dozen bat species and subspecies, including Rhinolophus tatar (with Frank Rozendaal ), Myonycteris relicta , Paranyctimene tenax , Dobsonia beauforti and Rousettus spinalatus (with John Edwards Hill ).
In 1986 Bergmans published the book Atlas van de Nederlandse amfibieën en reptielen en hun bedreiging together with Annie Zuiderwijk ; vijfde herpetogeografisch failed about the reptiles and amphibians of the Netherlands. In 2013 he wrote the species entry for Ansell's Epaulette Bat ( Epomophorus anselli ) in the Mammals of Africa by Jonathan Kingdon .
Dedication names
In 2015 the flying fox species Scotonycteris bergmansi and in 1988 the nut shell species Nucula bergmansi were named after Bergmans.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bergmans, Wim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch zoologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 11, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Amsterdam , Netherlands |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 16, 2018 |
| Place of death | Amsterdam , Netherlands |