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Fritz Sarasin, full name Karl Friedrich Sarasin (3 December 1859 – 23 March 1942) was a Swiss naturalist.

He was a second cousin of Paul Sarasin. They made a scientific expedition to Celebes (now Sulawesi).

Taxon named in his honor

Paul and Fritz Sarasin are commemorated in the scientific names of five species of reptiles:

• Amphiesma sarasinorum,
• Correlophus sarasinorum,
• Nessia sarasinorum,
• Pseudorabdion sarasinorum, and
• Sphenomorphus sarasinorum.

And fish:

• Sarasin's goby Mugilogobius sarasinorum is named in the cousins honor.
• The Rainbow Telmatherina sarasinorum Kottelat, 1991

There are seven species, two genera and one subfamily of harvestmen named after them.

Bibliography

He has published some of scientific works together with Paul Sarasin.

• Sarasin F. & Roux J. (eds.) (1913–1918). "Nova Caledonia. Forschungen in Neu-Caledonien und auf den Loyalty-Inseln. Recherches scientifiques en Nouvelle-Calédonie et aux iles Loyalty". Wiesbaden.
  • (1913). A. Zoologie. Volume I.
  • (1915). A. Zoologie. Volume II.
  • (1923). A. Zoologie. Volume III.
  • (1925). A. Zoologie. Volume IV.
• Aus einem glücklichen Leben. Biographische Notizen, Frobenius AG, Basel 1941.

References

1. Coan E. V., Kabat A. R. & Petit R. E. (15 February 2009). 2,400 years of malacology, 6th ed. Archived 2018-10-05 at the Wayback Machine, 830 pp. + 32 pp. . American Malacological Society.
2. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Sarasin", p. 233).
3. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order GOBIIFORMES: Family OXUDERCIDAE (a-o)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
4. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (14 March 2019). "Order ATHERINIFORMES: Families BEDOTIIDAE, MELANOTAENIIDAE, PSEUDOMUGILIDAE, TELMATHERINIDAE, ISONIDAE, DENTATHERINIDAE and PHALLOSTETHIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 13 July 2019.
5. International Plant Names Index.  Sarasin.

External links

• Works by or about Fritz Sarasin at the Internet Archive

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