Wilhelm Peters

Wilhelm Peters Wilhelm Karl Hartwich (or Hartwig) Peters (22 April 1815 – 20 April 1883) was a German naturalist and explorer.

He was assistant to the anatomist Johannes Peter Müller and later became curator of the Berlin Zoological Museum. Encouraged by Müller and the explorer Alexander von Humboldt, Peters travelled to Mozambique via Angola in September 1842, exploring the coastal region and the Zambesi River. He returned to Berlin with an enormous collection of natural history specimens, which he then described in ''Naturwissenschaftliche Reise nach Mossambique... in den Jahren 1842 bis 1848 ausgeführt'' (1852–1882). The work was comprehensive in its coverage, dealing with mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, river fish, insects and botany. He replaced Martin Lichtenstein as curator of the museum in 1858, and in the same year he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In a few years, he greatly increased the Berlin Museum's herpetological collection to a size comparable to those of Paris and London. Herpetology was Peters' main interest, and he described 122 new genera and 649 species from around the world. Peters also described at least one new fish species, the piranha ''Serrasalmus irritans'', Peters 1877, based on a specimen reported as from San Fernando de Apure, Venezuela. Provided by Wikipedia
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    by Peters, Wilhelm
    Published 1920
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    by Peters, Wilhelm
    Published 1922
    Berlin, 1922.
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    by Peters, Wilhelm
    Published 1919
    Göttingen, 1919.
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    by Peters, Wilhelm
    Published 1923
    Potsdam, 1923.
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    by Peters, Wilhelm
    Published 1928
    Marburg 1928.
    55 p.
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    by Peters, Wilhelm
    Published 1986
    Hannover : [s.n.], 1986.
    140 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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    by Peters, Wilhelm
    Published 1914
    Erkelenz : J. Brandts, 1914.
    44 p. ; 22 cm.
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    by Peters, Wilhelm
    Published 1975
    Hannover : Strohte, 1975.
    217 p. : diagr., tab. ; 21 cm.
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    by Peters, Wilhelm
    Published 1928
    1928.
    p. [77]-108.
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    by Peters, Wilhelm
    Published 1894
    Bonn Druck v. E. Heydorn 1894.
    72 S. 8"
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    by Peters, Wilhelm
    Published 1932
    [Berlin] : [J. Springer], 1932 [Ausg. 1934]
    S. 587-635 ; gr. 8.
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    by Peters, Wilhelm, 1880-
    Published 1910
    Leipzig, 1910.
    48 p. incl. tables. 24 cm.
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    by Peters, Wilhelm, 1859-
    Published 1882
    Lipsiae, B.G. Teubneri, 1882.
    74 p. 21 cm.
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    by Peters, Wilhelm Servatius
    Published 1960
    Bonn, 1960.
    86 S. ; 8.
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    by Peters, Wilhelm, 1878-
    Published 1906
    Crefeld, W. Greven, 1906.
    viii, 117 p. 26 cm.
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    by Peters, Wilhelm, 1880-
    Published 1904
    Wien, Druck von F. Rollinger u. Moessmer & Schulda, 1904.
    30 p., 1 l. illus., 11 diagr. on 7 pl. 23 cm.
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    by Peters, Wilhelm Paul, 1937-
    Published 1963
    1963.
    60 p.
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    Berlioni, Neudorff et soc., 1838.
    22, [3] p., 1 l. fold. pl. 23 cm.
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    Berlin, In commission bei G. Reimer, 1866.
    1 p. l., [79]-100 p. 4 pl. 30 x 24 cm.
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    Berlin: G. Reimer, 1852-
    v. pl. colored pl. sq.F. 33 cm.
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