Taphrospilus
Well-known member
Platypus leisleri Brehm, CL 1824 OD According http://www.zoonomen.net/cit/RI/SP/Pitt/pitt00370a.jpg Ornis oder das Neueste und Wichtigste der Vögelkunde, Vol. 1, p. 28 (not seen)
Not in The Eponym Dictionary of Birds
birdsoftheworld.org
No bird but a bat.
Vespertilio Leisleri Kuhl, 1817 OD https://publikationen.ub.uni-frankf...deliver/index/docId/21014/file/Q_327_5126.pdf
South Asian Mammals p. 38 (or in PDF 37/61)
Way back in 2013 I contacted the Stadtarchiv Hanau as it was not clear to me if 1771 or 1772 was the birth of Leissler. They answered:
So he was born. 1. August 1772 in Hanau. Achilles can't be found as name in birth or death reccord. Nevertheless this additional name can be found in the birth records of his children.
Probably more on him in:
Not in The Eponym Dictionary of Birds
The Key to Scientific Names - Birds of the World
Species accounts for all the birds of the world.
birdsoftheworld.org
No bird but a bat.
Vespertilio Leisleri Kuhl, 1817 OD https://publikationen.ub.uni-frankf...deliver/index/docId/21014/file/Q_327_5126.pdf
South Asian Mammals p. 38 (or in PDF 37/61)
Way back in 2013 I contacted the Stadtarchiv Hanau as it was not clear to me if 1771 or 1772 was the birth of Leissler. They answered:
So he was born. 1. August 1772 in Hanau. Achilles can't be found as name in birth or death reccord. Nevertheless this additional name can be found in the birth records of his children.
Probably more on him in:
- Antonia Kolb, Artur Hinkel: Johann Philipp Achilles Leisler (1772-1813). Mitbegründer der Wetterauischen Gesellschaft: Neues über seine Familie und den Werdegang seiner Kinder. In: Neues Magazin für Hanauische Geschichte 2015, pp. 81–114. or https://nyctalus.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Nyctalus-Band-18-Heft-2_2013_160-167.pdf or https://www.zobodat.at/biografien/Kuhl_Heinrich_Saeugetierschutz_27_1997_0036-0039.pdf
