Juan Gundlach
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Juan Cristóbal Gundlach (1810 - 14 March 1896), born Johannes Christoph Gundlach was a Cuban naturalist and taxonomist.
[edit] Biography
Gundlach graduated from Marburg University, where his father was professor of physics, as Doctor of Philosophy in 1837. In 1839 he left Europe to make collections on the Caribbean island of Cuba, where he lived ever since (except for a short period in the 1870s when he was forced to move to Puerto Rico because of insurrection). While he was there, he changed his name from Johannes Christoph to its Spanish equivalent Juan Cristóbal. He wrote the first major work on the birds of Cuba, Ornitología Cubana, and his name is recorded in the scientific names of over sixty species. His collections passed into the care of the Museo Poey in Havana upon his death in 1896. In 1986, on the 90th anniversary of his death, Cuba issued a series of postal stamps commemorating Gundlach. He wrote Contribucion á la Erpetologia Cubana (1880) Contribucion á la entomologia Cubana. 4 Volumes (1881-1884).
[edit] Species named for Gundlach
- Accipiter gundlachii - Gundlach's Hawk
- Bufo gundlachii - Gundlach's Caribbean toad
- Dendroica petechia gundlachi - subspecies of Yellow Warbler (petechia group)
- Palinurellus gundlachi - Caribbean furry lobster
- Vireo gundlachii - Cuban Vireo
- Gundlachia - a genus of land snails
- Nephronaias gundlachii - another land snail
- Anolis gundlachi - a lizard living in Puerto Rico
- Anolis juangundlachi - a lizard living in Cuba
- Clusia gundlachii - a vine endemic to Puerto Rico
