Johann Reinhold Forster

Johann Reinhold Forster

Johann Reinhold Forster (1729–1798), German naturalist (botany, entomology, ornithology and ichthyology) of Scottish descent. Father of Johann Georg Adam Forster.

IPNI standard form: J.R.Forst.

Taxon names authored

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• 106 taxon names authored by Johann Reinhold Forster

Eponyms

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• 2 eponyms of Johann Reinhold Forster

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1770's

• Forster, J.R. 1770. A catalogue of British insects. Warrington, printed by William Eyres. 16 pp. BHL
• Forster, J.R. 1771. Novae species insectorum. Centuria I. T. Davies et B. White, Londini. viii + 100 pp. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.152194 . BHL. Reference page. 
• Forster, J.R. 1771. A catalogue of the animals of North America: containing, an enumeration of the known quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fish, insects, crustaceous and testaceous animals ... to which are added short directions for collecting, preserving, and transporting, all kinds of natural history curiosities. B. White, London. 43 pp. BHL
• Forster, J.R. 1771. Flora Americae Septentrionalis; or a Catalogue of the Plants of North America. B. White & T. Davies, London. 51 pp. BHL
• Forster, J.R. 1773. An account of some curious fishes, sent from Hudson's Bay; by Mr. John Reinhold Forster, F.R.S. in a letter to Thomas Pennant, Esq., F.R.S. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 63: 149–160, Pl. 6. DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1773.0018 Reference page. 
• Forster, J.R. & Forster, J.G.A. 1776. Characteres generum plantarum, quas in itinere ad insulas maris Australis : collegerunt, descripserunt, delinearunt, annis 1772–1775. [Editio secunda.] x + 150 pp., 75 tab., Londini: apud B. White, T. Cadell, & P. Elmsly. BHL Reference page. 

1780's

• Enchiridion Historiae Naturali: [1].

1790's

• Forster, J.R. 1795. Faunula Indica id est catalogus animalium Indiae Orientalis quae hactenus naturae curiosis innotuerunt: i-iii, 1-36.— Halae ad Salam.

Publications posthum

• MS published in:
• Bloch, M.E. & Schneider, J.G. 1801. M.E. Blochii, Systema ichthyologiae iconibus cx illustratum. Post obitum auctoris opus inchoatum absolvit, correxit, interpolavit Jo. Gottlob Schneider, Saxo. Berolini. Sumtibus Auctoris Impressum et Bibliopolio Sanderiano Commissum. i–lx + 1–584, Pls. 1–110. BHL Reference page. 

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