Coenraad Jacob Temminck

Coenraad Jacob Temminck (; 31 March 1778 – 30 January 1858) was a Dutch patrician, zoologist and museum director.

Biography Coenraad Jacob Temminck was born on 31 March 1778 in Amsterdam in the Dutch Republic. From his father, Jacob Temminck, who was treasurer of the Dutch East India Company with links to numerous travellers and collectors, he inherited a large collection of bird specimens. His father was a good friend of Francois Levaillant who also guided Coenraad.

Temminck's Manuel d'ornithologie, ou Tableau systématique des oiseaux qui se trouvent en Europe (1815) was the standard work on European birds for many years. He was also the author of Histoire naturelle générale des Pigeons et des Gallinacées (1813–1817), illustrated by Pauline Knip. He wrote Nouveau Recueil de Planches coloriées d'Oiseaux (1820–1839), and contributed to the mammalian sections of Philipp Franz von Siebold's Fauna japonica (1844–1850).

Temminck was the first director of the National Museum of Natural History in Leiden, from 1820 until his death in 1858. In 1824, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society. In 1831, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In 1836 he became member of the Royal Institute, predecessor of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Works Temminck, in collaboration with Heinrich Kuhl, was the author of descriptions of parrots, including the rosella Platycercus icterotis. A tailless mutant of a junglefowl Gallus lafayettii was described in 1807 by Temminck, which in 1868 the English naturalist Charles Darwin incorrectly denied existed. Another junglefowl, described in 1813 by Temminck as Gallus giganteus was, he believed, one of six wild ancestral species of domestic fowl; Darwin, however, demonstrated that the latter has a single (monophyletic) origin.

Species named after Temminck A large number of animals were named after Temminck in the 19th century. Among those still in use are:

Fish Ancistrus temminckii (an armoured suckermouth catfish) Dark chub Zacco temminckii (a carp) Nipponocypris temminckii (a cyprinid) Samoan silverside Hypoatherina temminckii (Bleeker 1854) Longsnout pipefish Syngnathus temminckii Kaup, 1856 Oilfish Rovetus temminckii (synonym) Goldribbon soapfish Aulacocephalus temminckii Ditrema temminckii Bleeker 1853 (a surfperch) Thread-fin fairy-wrasse Cirrhilabrus temminckii Kissing gourami Helostoma temminckii Cuvier 1829 Broadfin shark Lamiopsis temminckii (J. P. Müller & Henle 1839) Dictyosoma temminckii Bleeker 1853 Aulacocephalus temminckii Bleeker 1855

Reptiles: Alligator snapping turtle Macrochelys temminckii Tytthoscincus temmincki (a skink) Birds: Temminck's sunbird Aethopyga temminckii Temminck's stint Calidris temminckii Purple-winged roller Coracias temminckii Cerulean cuckooshrike Coracina temminckii Temminck's courser Cursorius temminckii Temminck's lark Eremophila bilopha Malaysian eared nightjar Lyncornis temminckii Australian logrunner Orthonyx temminckii Temminck's babbler Pellorneum pyrrhogenys Temminck's cormorant Phalacrocorax capillatus Ochre-collared piculet Picumnus temminckii Temminck's fruit dove Ptilinopus porphyreus Temminck's hornbill Rhabdotorrhinus exarhatus Temminck's seedeater Sporophila falcirostris Temminck's tragopan Tragopan temminckii Sulawesi pygmy woodpecker Yungipicus temminckii Javan sunbird subspecies Aethopyga mystacalis temminckii Black sparrowhawk subspecies Astur melanoleucus temminckii Blue whistling thrush subspecies Myophonus caeruleus temminckii Bekisar hybrid "Gallus temminckii" (G. varius × G. gallus) Mammals: Temminck's mole Mogera wogura Temminck's flying fox Pteropus temminckii Temminck's tailless fruit bat Megaerops ecaudatus Dwarf dog-faced bat Molossops temminckii Temminck's trident bat Aselliscus tricuspidatus Temminck's mysterious bat Nycticeius aenobarbus Temminck's pangolin Smutsia temminckii Temminck's golden cat Catopuma temminckii Southern right whale Hunterus temminckii (a synonym) Temminck's mouse Mus musculoides Temminck's striped mouse Hybomys trivirgatus Temminck's giant squirrel Epixerus ebii Temminck's flying squirrel Petinomys setosus Temminck's red colobus Pilocolobus badius temminckii (subspecies)