Johann Reinhold Forster

Johann Reinhold Forster

Johann Reinhold Forster (October 22, 1729 – December 9, 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

(List may be incomplete)

• 56 taxon names authored by Johann Reinhold Forster

Eponyms

• 1 eponyms of Johann Reinhold Forster

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

• 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.
• 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. 
• 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 Ilustratum. 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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