Oskar Boettger - Taxa

Taxa

In 1911 famed zoologist George Albert Boulenger (1858-1937) dedicated the species Anolis boettgeri to Boettger, which is a Peruvian anole of the family Polychrotidae. A number of other herpetological species/subspecies are named in his honor, including:

• Testudo hermanni boettgeri, Eastern Hermann's tortoise
• Xenophrys boettgeri, a species of Asian toad
• Calumma boettgeri, blue-nosed chameleon or Boettger's chameleon
• Cacosternum boettgeri, Boettger's dainty frog
• Boettger's Wall Gecko, (Tarentola boettgeri)
• Hymenochirus boettgeri, Dwarf African frog.

Boettger was also a conchologist or malacologist, and an entomologist who specialized in Coleoptera (beetles). Argonauta boettgeri and Sarcophyton boettgeri are named after him.

He named and described some gastropod taxa, including:

• Lampedusa, a land snail genus
• Megalophaedusa, a land snail genus