Cecil Boden Kloss

Cecil Boden Kloss (1877–1949) was an English zoologist. He was an expert on the mammals and birds of Southeast Asia.

In the early 20th century, Kloss accompanied the American naturalist William Louis Abbott in exploring the Andaman and Nicobar islands. During the years 1912-1913 Kloss participated in the 2nd Wollaston Expedition to Dutch New Guinea, led by British medical doctor and explorer A.F.R. Sandy Wollaston, in the capacity of zoologist. From 1908 he worked under Herbert Christopher Robinson at the museum in Kuala Lumpur. He was Director of the Raffles Museum from 1923 to 1932.

Kloss is commemorated in the names of a number of plants and animals, including:

Plants:

• Eugenia klossii, plant endemic to Malaysia
• Nepenthes klossii, pitcher plant endemic to New Guinea
• Begonia klossii, Begonia
• Rungia klossii, small vegetable plant from New Guinea
• Cyathea klossii, tree fern native to western New Guinea
• Adiantum klossii, fern

Mammals:

• Hylobates klossii, Kloss' Gibbon, endemic to Mentawai Islands, Indonesia

Birds:

• Bubo coromandus klossii, Dusky Eagle Owl from Malaysia

Reptiles:

• Emoia klossi, Kloss' skink, a lizard endemic to western New Guinea
• Gonocephalus klossi, Kloss' forest dragon, a lizard endemic to Sumatra, Indonesia
• Fimbrios klossi, the Bearded snake, from Cambodia and Vietnam
• Hydrophis klossi, Kloss' seasnake, from the Indian Ocean coastlines of West Malaysia, Thailand (including Phuket), Singapore and Indonesia (Sumatra)

Works (incomplete)

In the Andamans and Nicobars;: The narrative of a cruise in the schooner "Terrapin", with notices of the islands, their fauna, ethnology, etc., (1903)

References

• Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research

External links

• Works by Cecil Boden Kloss at Project Gutenberg
• In the Andamans and Nicobars; the narrative of a cruise in the schooner "Terrapin", with notices of the islands, their fauna, ethnology, etc. (1903)