Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch (8 August 1839, Warmbrunn – 31 January 1917, Braunschweig) was a German ethnographer, naturalist and colonial explorer....
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after German zoologist Otto Finsch. It is located to the south-southeast of the crater Sarabhai and northeast of Bessel. "Finsch (crater)". Gazetteer of...
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Finsch's wheatear (Oenanthe finschii) is a wheatear, a small insectivorous passerine that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family, Turdidae...
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Sagittariidae (category Taxa named by Otto Finsch)
artifact called the Pull of the recent.[relevant?] German naturalists Otto Finsch and Gustav Hartlaub established the taxon name as a subfamily—Sagittariinae—in...
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Nauru reed warbler (category Taxa named by Otto Finsch)
found elsewhere, but was driven to local extinction by introduced cats. Otto Finsch was the first naturalist to visit the island of Nauru, stopping for six...
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German ethnographer, naturalist and colonial explorer Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch (8 August 1839 - 31 January 1917, Braunschweig). BirdLife International...
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Mourning collared dove (category Taxa named by Otto Finsch)
Aves Order: Columbiformes Family: Columbidae Genus: Streptopelia Species: S. decipiens Binomial name Streptopelia decipiens (Hartlaub & Finsch, 1870)...
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Silktail (category Taxa named by Otto Finsch)
been a long-standing mystery. When describing the Taveuni silktail, Otto Finsch wrote "I scarcely remember a bird which has puzzled me in respect of...
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Finschhafen was surveyed in 1884 by the German scientist and explorer Otto Finsch who gave his name to the town. A town was built in 1885 as part of the...
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The specific epithet finschi and the common name honours ornithologist Otto Finsch, who first recognised it as a distinct species. The species was originally...
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