Friedrich Johann Graf von Medem

Friedrich Johann Graf von Medem (29 August 1912 in , Russian Empire presently Latvia – 1 May 1984 in Bogotá, Colombia) was a Baltic German zoologist who emigrated to Colombia at age 38 (in 1950) and later became a representative of the IUCN Crocodiles Specialist Group for South America. He was also known as Federico Medem and published under this name.

Eponyms

Numerous species have been named after Medem, including the following four reptiles and three amphibians, listed in chronological order by the year in which each was described.

• Micrurus medemi , a coral snake
• Centrolene medemi , a frog
• Bolitoglossa medemi , a salamander
• Amphisbaena medemi , an amphisbaenian
• Neusticurus medemi , a spectacled lizard
• Anolis medemi , an anole lizard.
• Pristimantis medemi , a frog

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a different genus.

References

Further reading

• Lamar, William W. (1984). "Federico Medem (29 August 1912–1 May 1984)". Herpetologica 40 (4): 468-472.