Gerlof Fokko Mees

Dr Gerlof Fokko Mees (born 16 June 1926, Velsen) is a Dutch ichthyologist, ornithologist and museum curator who was born in the Netherlands, grew up in the Dutch East Indies, and spent much of his life working in Australasia. One of his principal interests has been the avian family Zosteropidae, comprising the White-eyes.

Mees attended the University of Amsterdam where he studied biology, obtaining his doctorate in 1950. He was Curator of Vertebrates at the Western Australian Museum from 1958 to 1963. He was subsequently Curator of Birds at the Leiden Museum in the Netherlands until his retirement, for which he returned to Western Australia in 1991.

He gave the first description of the unusual fish species, the Salamander fish of Western Australia.[1][2]

Mees's Nightjar, the proposed name for new species Caprimulgus meesi, is named for this researcher.[3]

References

  1. ^ Mees, G. F. 1961. Description of a new fish of the family Galaxiidae from Western Australia. J. Roy. Soc. West. Aust. 44: 33-38.
  2. ^ Berra, Tim M. (1995). "Lepidogalaxias_salamandroides". Version 01. The Tree of Life Web Project. http://tolweb.org/Lepidogalaxias_salamandroides/15164. Retrieved 2008-10-26. 
  3. ^ Sangster, G. and F. Rozendaal (2004) Territorial songs and species-level taxonomy of nightjars of the Caprimulgus macrurus complex, with the description of a new species. Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) Vol. 350 pp. 7-45

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