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Jun 07, 1833 Winsen, Lower Saxony, Germany Died on 25 Jan 1870 (aged 36)
German zoologist
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About Wilhelm Moritz Keferstein
- Wilhelm Moritz Keferstein (7 June 1833, Winsen (Luhe) – 25 January 1870) was a German naturalist.
- He described a number of reptiles and amphibians for the first time. He originally studied hydraulic engineering in Hanover, later becoming a lecturer and professor of zoology at the University of Göttingen. With zoologist Ernst Ehlers (1835-1925), he wrote Zoologische Beiträge gesammelt im Winter 1859/60 in Neapel und Messina...
- in 1861. With Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer (1829-1902) he was co-author of a study on the electric organs of Gymnotus and Mormyrus that was published in Henle and Pfeufer's Zeitschrift für rationelle Medicin (Journal of rational medicine).
- He also made important contributions to Heinrich Georg Bronn's Die Klassen und Ordnungen des Thier-Reichs (Classes and Orders of the Animal Kingdom). Keferstein's tree frog is named after him (a species he described in 1868), as is a genus of polychaetes, Kefersteinia (family Hesionidae).
