Notes on Johann Christian Mikan (1 Viewer)

[Taphrospilus]

Crax mikani Pelzeln 1870 OD [1868-1870] (1871) - Zur Ornithologie Brasiliens - Biodiversity Heritage Library

Von dieser Art wurde das Männchen von Professor Mikan lebend aus Brasilien gebracht und im Jahr 1825 (8?) von der kais. Terrasse erhaltene Weibchen dürfte wohl demselben Reisenden eingeführt worden sein, den Natterer sagt in seiner handschriftlichen Synopsis: Männchen und Weibchen im kais. Museum von Prof. Mikan lebend aus Brasilien gebracht.

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Prof. Johann Christian Mikan (1769-1844) Czech botanist, zoologist, collector in Brazil (syn. Crax alberti ♀, syn. Crax daubentoni ♂=♀).

From Bd. 3 (1888) - Annalen des K.K. Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums - Biodiversity Heritage Library I would go:
Crax mikani Pelzeln 1870 ♀ = Crax alberti Fraser, 1852
Crax mikani Pelzeln 1870 ♂ = Crax daubentoni, Gray, GR 1867

So no daubt it is Johann Christian Mikan – Wikipedia
He described:

• Lanius undulatus Mikan, 1820 = Batara cinerea (Vieillot, 1819)
• Oxyrhynchus serratus Mikan, 1823 = Oxyruncus cristatus Swainson, 1821
• Tanagra chalybea Mikan, 1825 = Euphonia chalybea (Mikan, 1825)

And not birds:

• Acanthochelys radiolata (Mikan, 1820)
• Leontopithecus chrysopygus (Mikan, 1823)
• Siphonops annulatus (Mikan, 1822)
• Hydromedusa maximiliani (Mikan, 1825)

Other non bird dedications:

• Mikania Willd. OD t.3:pt.3 (1800) - Species plantarum - Biodiversity Heritage Library
• Sibynomorphus mikanii (Schlegel, 1837) 2 - Essai sur la physionomie des serpens - Biodiversity Heritage Library
• Arundinella mikanii Nees OD v.2 - Flora Brasiliensis - Biodiversity Heritage Library
• Goldbachia mikanii Trin. OD Bd.2 (1821) - Neue Entdeckungen im ganzen Umfang der Pflanzenkunde - Biodiversity Heritage Library
• Hyptis mikanii J.A.Schmidt OD v.8,pt.1 - Flora Brasiliensis, enumeratio plantarum in Brasilia hactenus detectarum - Biodiversity Heritage Library
• Acacia mikanii Benth. OD v.30 (1874) - Transactions of the Linnean Society of London - Biodiversity Heritage Library
• Asplenium mikanii C.Presl OD Deliciae pragenses - Biodiversity Heritage Library
• Erythroxylum mikanii Peyr. OD v.12,pt.1 - Flora Brasiliensis, enumeratio plantarum in Brasilia hactenus detectarum - Biodiversity Heritage Library
• Rubus mikani Köhler ex Weihe OD Flora Silesiae

Feel free to add any additional information of value to the thread. Of course a couple of plants are described by him Mikan, Johann Christian | International Plant Names Index

 

[Björn Bergenholtz]

Crax mikani Pelzeln 1871 OD [1868-1870] (1871) - Zur Ornithologie Brasiliens - Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Martin, note that the Richmond card (here) dates it: "1870"

See BHL (here):

Published in 4 Abtheilungen: I. Abth. 1868, II. Abth. 1869, III. Abth. 1870, IV. Abth. 1870.

Or here.

 

[kweetal]

Crax mikani Pelzeln 1871 OD [1868-1870] (1871) - Zur Ornithologie Brasiliens - Biodiversity Heritage Library

From Bd. 3 (1888) - Annalen des K.K. Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums - Biodiversity Heritage Library I would go:
Crax mikani Pelzeln 1871 ♀ = Crax alberti Fraser, 1852
Crax mikani Pelzeln 1871 ♂ = Crax daubentoni, Gray, GR 1867

So no daubt it is Johann Christian Mikan – Wikipedia
He described:

• Lanius undulatus Mikan, 1820 = Batara cinerea (Vieillot, 1819)
• Oxyrhynchus serratus Mikan, 1823 = Oxyruncus cristatus Swainson, 1821
• Tanagra chalybea Mikan, 1825 = Euphonia chalybea (Mikan, 1825)

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One more bird: Hellmayr, in his Catalogue of the Americas (1934, part VII, p. 29), mentions:
Corvus tricolor Mikan, 1822

v.13:pt.7 (1934) - Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History - Biodiversity Heritage Library

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He enumerates it under "Uroleuca cristatella (Temminck). PEGA JAY." I think this is Cyanocorax cristatellus - curl-crested jay.

Corvus tricolor (not of P. L. S. Müller, 1776) Mikan, Del. Fl. Faun. Bras.,
Part 2, pl. 10, 1822— Mattodentro, Ypanema, and Rio Verde (São Paulo), and
"Curitiba," Paraná (type in Vienna Museum).

Delectus florae et faunae Brasiliensis - Biodiversity Heritage Library (plate)
Delectus florae et faunae Brasiliensis - Biodiversity Heritage Library (text)