Louis Agassiz

Louis Agassiz

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873), Swiss-born American geologist and zoologist (cnidariology and palaeontology), father of Alexander Agassiz.

Author abbreviations: Agassiz and L. Agassiz

Authored taxa

• 83 taxon names authored by Louis Agassiz

(List may be incomplete)

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1829

• Spix, J.B. von & Agassiz, L. 1829. Selecta genera et species piscium quos in itinere per Brasiliam annos MDCCCXVII–MDCCCXX jussu et auspiciis Maximiliani Josephi I… colleget et pingendso curavit Dr J. B. de Spix… Monachii. Part 1: i–xvi + i–ii + 1–82, Pls. 1–48; Part 2: 83–138, Pls. 49–101. Reference page. 

1832

• Agassiz, L., 1832: Untersuchungen über die fossilen Süsswasser-Fische der tertiären Formationen. Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde, 3: 129–138. PDF

1833

• Agassiz, L. 1833–1844. Recherches sur les poissons fossiles. 1420 pp. Imprimerie de Petitpierre, Neuchâtel. Reference page. 

1834

• Agassiz, L. 1834. Abgerissene Bemerkungen über fossile Fische. pp. 379–390 in: von Leonhard, K. C. & Bronn, H. G. (eds.): Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde, 1834 (4). E. Schweitzbarts Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart. GoogleBooks Reference page. 

1835

• Agassiz, L. 1835. Revue critique des poissons fossiles figurés dans l'Ittiolitologia veronesé. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefakten-Kunde 1835: 290–316. Reference page. 

1837

• Agassiz, L. 1837. Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome III (livr. 8–9). Imprimérie de Petitpierre, Neuchatel viii–72. Reference page. 

1838

• Agassiz, L. 1838. Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome III (livr. 11). Imprimérie de Petitpierre, Neuchatel 73–140. Reference page. 
• Murchison, R.I. 1838. On the fishes of the Ludlow rocks, or upper beds of the Silurian System. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Liverpool 1837: 91. BHL Reference page. 

1841

• Agassiz, L. 1841. On the fossil fishes found by Mr. Gardner in the Province of Ceará, in the North of Brazil. Edinburg New Philosophical Journal, 30: 82–84. Reference page. 

1844

• Agassiz, L. 1844-45. Monographie de poissons fossiles des Vieux Grès Rouges ou Système Dévonien (Old Red Sandstone) des Îles Britanniques et de Russie. Imprimerie de Petitpierre et Prince, Neuchâtel. Reference page. 

1846

• Agassiz J.L.R. 1846. Nomenclatoris Zoologici Index Universalis, continens nomina systematica classium, ordinum, familiarum et generum animalium omnium tam viventium quam fossilium. Jent & Gassmann. Solothurn: 1–393.

1854

• Agassiz, L. 1854. Notice of a collection of fishes from the southern bend of the Tennessee River, in the State of Alabama. American Journal of Science and Arts (Series 2) 17: 297–308, 353–365. BHL Reference page. 

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