Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

Leonhard Stejneger

Index Leonhard Stejneger

Leonhard Hess Stejneger (30 October 1851 – 28 February 1943) was a Norwegian-born American ornithologist, herpetologist and zoologist. [1]

49 relations: American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Amphibian, Amphisbaena (lizard), Bergen, Bering Island, Biologist, Bird, Boston, Central Antillean slider, Commander Islands, Crotalus stejnegeri, Doctor of Philosophy, Exposition Universelle (1900), Fur seal, Georg Wilhelm Steller, Gloydius intermedius, Hemidactylus, Herpetology, International Society of Zoological Sciences, Kamchatka Peninsula, Law, Merano, National Academy of Sciences, North America, Norway, Order of St. Olav, Ornithology, Philosophy, Pseudoxenodon, Puerto Rico, Reptile, Rhinotyphlops stejnegeri, Side-blotched lizard, Smithsonian Institution, South Tyrol, Spencer Fullerton Baird, Sphaerodactylus, Spiny lizard, Takydromus, Thomas Barbour, Trimeresurus stejnegeri, United States, University Museum of Bergen, University of Oslo, Valdemar Knudsen, Washington, D.C., Watercolor painting, Western whiptail, Zoology.

American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists

The American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (ASIH) is an international learned society devoted to the scientific studies of ichthyology (study of fish) and herpetology (study of reptiles and amphibians).

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists · See more »

Amphibian

Amphibians are ectothermic, tetrapod vertebrates of the class Amphibia.

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and Amphibian · See more »

Amphisbaena (lizard)

Amphisbaena is a genus in the family Amphisbaenidae, commonly known as the worm lizards.

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and Amphisbaena (lizard) · See more »

Bergen

Bergen, historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Hordaland on the west coast of Norway.

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and Bergen · See more »

Bering Island

Bering Island (о́стров Бе́ринга, ostrov Beringa) is located off the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Bering Sea.

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and Bering Island · See more »

Biologist

A biologist, is a scientist who has specialized knowledge in the field of biology, the scientific study of life.

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and Biologist · See more »

Bird

Birds, also known as Aves, are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and Bird · See more »

Boston

Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and Boston · See more »

Central Antillean slider

The Central Antillean slider (Trachemys stejnegeri), is a species of turtle in the family Emydidae.

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and Central Antillean slider · See more »

Commander Islands

The Commander Islands or Komandorski Islands or Komandorskie Islands (Командо́рские острова́, Komandorskiye ostrova) are a group of treeless, sparsely populated islands in the Bering Sea located about east of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East.

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and Commander Islands · See more »

Crotalus stejnegeri

Crotalus stejnegeri is a venomous pit viper species found in western Mexico.

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and Crotalus stejnegeri · See more »

Doctor of Philosophy

A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or Ph.D.; Latin Philosophiae doctor) is the highest academic degree awarded by universities in most countries.

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and Doctor of Philosophy · See more »

Exposition Universelle (1900)

The Exposition Universelle of 1900 was a world's fair held in Paris, France, from 14 April to 12 November 1900, to celebrate the achievements of the past century and to accelerate development into the next.

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and Exposition Universelle (1900) · See more »

Fur seal

Fur seals are any of nine species of pinnipeds belonging to the subfamily Arctocephalinae in the family Otariidae.

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and Fur seal · See more »

Georg Wilhelm Steller

Several animals described by and named for Georg Steller, of whom no portrait is known to exist.

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and Georg Wilhelm Steller · See more »

Gloydius intermedius

Gloydius intermedius is a venomous pitviper species endemic to northern Asia.

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and Gloydius intermedius · See more »

Hemidactylus

Hemidactylus (the house geckos) is a genus of the common gecko family, Gekkonidae.

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and Hemidactylus · See more »

Herpetology

Herpetology (from Greek "herpein" meaning "to creep") is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and caecilians (gymnophiona)) and reptiles (including snakes, lizards, amphisbaenids, turtles, terrapins, tortoises, crocodilians, and the tuataras).

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and Herpetology · See more »

International Society of Zoological Sciences

The International Society of Zoological Sciences (ISZS) was founded to encourage research, education, and communication in zoology.

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and International Society of Zoological Sciences · See more »

Kamchatka Peninsula

The Kamchatka Peninsula (полуо́стров Камча́тка, Poluostrov Kamchatka) is a 1,250-kilometre-long (780 mi) peninsula in the Russian Far East, with an area of about 270,000 km2 (100,000 sq mi).

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and Kamchatka Peninsula · See more »

Law

Law is a system of rules that are created and enforced through social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior.

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and Law · See more »

Merano

Merano or Meran is a town and comune in South Tyrol, northern Italy.

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and Merano · See more »

National Academy of Sciences

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization.

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and National Academy of Sciences · See more »

North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and North America · See more »

Norway

Norway (Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk); Norga), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a unitary sovereign state whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard.

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and Norway · See more »

Order of St. Olav

The Royal Norwegian Order of Saint Olav (Den Kongelige Norske Sankt Olavs Orden; or Sanct Olafs Orden, the old Norwegian name) is a Norwegian order of chivalry instituted by King Oscar I on August 21, 1847.

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and Order of St. Olav · See more »

Ornithology

Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the study of birds.

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and Ornithology · See more »

Philosophy

Philosophy (from Greek φιλοσοφία, philosophia, literally "love of wisdom") is the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and Philosophy · See more »

Pseudoxenodon

Pseudoxenodon is a genus of snakes of the subfamily Pseudoxenodontinae.

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and Pseudoxenodon · See more »

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico (Spanish for "Rich Port"), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, "Free Associated State of Puerto Rico") and briefly called Porto Rico, is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea.

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and Puerto Rico · See more »

Reptile

Reptiles are tetrapod animals in the class Reptilia, comprising today's turtles, crocodilians, snakes, amphisbaenians, lizards, tuatara, and their extinct relatives.

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and Reptile · See more »

Rhinotyphlops stejnegeri

Rhinotyphlops stejnegeri is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and Rhinotyphlops stejnegeri · See more »

Side-blotched lizard

Side-blotched lizards are lizards of the genus Uta.

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and Side-blotched lizard · See more »

Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution, established on August 10, 1846 "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge," is a group of museums and research centers administered by the Government of the United States.

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and Smithsonian Institution · See more »

South Tyrol

South Tyrol is an autonomous province in northern Italy.

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and South Tyrol · See more »

Spencer Fullerton Baird

Spencer Fullerton Baird (February 3, 1823 – August 19, 1887) was an American naturalist, ornithologist, ichthyologist, herpetologist, and museum curator.

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and Spencer Fullerton Baird · See more »

Sphaerodactylus

Sphaerodactylus is a genus of geckos from the Americas that are distinguished from other Gekkota by their small size, by their round, rather than vertical, eye pupils, and by each digit terminating in a single, round adhesive pad or scale, from which their name (Sphaero.

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and Sphaerodactylus · See more »

Spiny lizard

Spiny lizards is the common name for the genus Sceloporus in the subfamily Phrynosomatinae.

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and Spiny lizard · See more »

Takydromus

Takydromus is a genus of lizards, commonly called grass lizards or oriental racers.

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and Takydromus · See more »

Thomas Barbour

Thomas Barbour (August 19, 1884 – January 8, 1946) was an American herpetologist.

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and Thomas Barbour · See more »

Trimeresurus stejnegeri

Trimeresurus stejnegeri is a species of venomous pit viper endemic to Asia.

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and Trimeresurus stejnegeri · See more »

United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and United States · See more »

University Museum of Bergen

The University Museum of Bergen (Universitetsmuseet i Bergen) is a university museum in Bergen, Norway.

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and University Museum of Bergen · See more »

University of Oslo

The University of Oslo (Universitetet i Oslo), until 1939 named the Royal Frederick University (Det Kongelige Frederiks Universitet), is the oldest university in Norway, located in the Norwegian capital of Oslo.

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and University of Oslo · See more »

Valdemar Knudsen

Valdemar Emil Knudsen (August 5, 1819 – January 5, 1898) was a sugarcane plantation pioneer on west Kauai, Hawaii.

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and Valdemar Knudsen · See more »

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and Washington, D.C. · See more »

Watercolor painting

Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also aquarelle (French, diminutive of Latin aqua "water"), is a painting method in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-based solution.

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and Watercolor painting · See more »

Western whiptail

The western whiptail (Aspidoscelis tigris) is a species of lizard in the family Teiidae.

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and Western whiptail · See more »

Zoology

Zoology or animal biology is the branch of biology that studies the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct, and how they interact with their ecosystems.

New!!: Leonhard Stejneger and Zoology · See more »

Redirects here:

Leonard Stejneger, Leonhard Hess Stejneger, Stejneger.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonhard_Stejneger

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »