Friedrich Johann Graf von Medem

German zoologist

Friedrich Johann Graf von Medem

Born| (1912-08-29)August 29, 1912

Remten, Russian Empire

Died| May 1, 1984(1984-05-01) (aged 71)

Bogotá, Colombia

Scientific career
Fields| Zoology

Friedrich Johann Graf von Medem (29 August 1912 in Remten, Russian Empire presently Latvia – 1 May 1984 in Bogotá, Colombia) was a Baltic German zoologist who emigrated to Colombia at age 38 (in 1950) and later became a representative of the IUCN Crocodiles Specialist Group for South America. He was also known as Federico Medem and published under this name.

## Eponyms

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Numerous species have been named after Medem, including four reptiles and two frogs.

* Micrurus medemi Roze, 1967, a coral snake[1][2]
* Centrolene medemi (Cochran & Goin, 1970), a frog
* Amphisbaena medemi Gans & Mathers, 1977, an amphisbaenian[2]
* Neusticurus medemi Dixon & Lamar, 1981, a spectacled lizard[2]
* Anolis medemi Ayala & E. Williams, 1988, an anole lizard.[2]
* Pristimantis medemi (Lynch, 1994), a frog

## References

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1. ^ Micrurus medemi at the Reptile Database.
2. ^ a b c d Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Medem", pp. 174–175).

## Further reading

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* Lamar, William W. (1984). "Federico Medem (29 August 1912–1 May 1984)". Herpetologica 40 (4): 468-472.

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