Fritz Nieden (1883–1942) was a German zoologist who specialized in African herpetology.
He worked as a zoologist at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin. His name is associated with Nieden's dwarf skink, Panaspis megalurus. In 1911 he was the first to describe Callulina kreffti, a species of frog, which until 2004 was the only known species of the genus Callulina.
The Sagala caecilian, Boulengerula niedeni, is named after him.
Selected writings
- Die Amphibienfauna von Kamerun (1908), Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 3: 491–518 ("Amphibian fauna of Cameroon")
- Die Reptilien (außer den Schlangen) und Amphibien, 1910 - Reptiles (other than snakes) and amphibians.
- Gymnophoina (Amphibia apoda), 1913 - Gymnophiona (caecilians).
- Amphibia : Anura I subordo Aglossa und Phanerglossa, sectio 1 Arcifera, 1923 - Anura I, suborders Aglossa and Phaneroglossa.
- Amphibia. Anura II. Engystomatidae ... Mit 55 Abbildungen, 1926 - Anura II, Engystomatidae.
References
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (22 April 2013). The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians. Exeter, England: Pelagic Publishing. p. 155. ISBN 978-1-907807-44-2.
- Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (26 July 2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 190. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5.
- Squamates Recently Discovered Diversity in Brevicipitid Frogs.
- Frost, Darrel R. (2016). "Callulina Nieden, 1911". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 27 January 2016.
- Lifedesks Archived 2010-08-31 at the Wayback Machine African amphibians.
- WorldCat Identities (list of published works).