Louise Schilthuis

Louise Schilthuis (16 December 1863, Groningen – 27 January 1951, The Hague),[1] also known as Lubbina Schilthuis, was a Dutch zoologist and a curator at the Zoology Museum at the University of Utrecht.[2] She was active in the late 19th century and published at least two papers, both describing new species,[3] on the specimens collected in the Congo by M.A. Greshof, a Dutch collector and trader,[4] on the amphibians in 1889 and on the fishes on 1891. Boulenger named the mormyrid Marcusenius schilthuisiae after her.[5]

Bibliography

• 1889 On small collection of Amphibia from the Congo with a description of a new species Ned. Dierk. Ver Tijdschr 2 pp285-286
• 1890 On a collection of fishes from the Congo with descriptions of some new species Ned. Dierk. Ver Tijdschr 3 pp83-92

Taxa named

Lamprologus congoensis, named by Schilthuis

Among the taxa named by Schilthuis, she described the cichlid genus Lamprologus and its type species Lamprologus congoensis.[6]

She also described Synodontis angelicus in 1891.

References

1. "Algemeen Handelsblad" (in Dutch). Delpher Kranten. 30 January 1951. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
2. "Nederlandsche staatscourant" (in Dutch). Delpher Kranten. 31 December 1887. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
3. Mary R. S. Creese (2004). Ladies in the Laboratory II: West European Women in Science, 1800-1900 : a Survey of Their Contributions to Research. Scarecrow Press. p. 267. ISBN 0810849798.
4. "Synodontis greshoffi". Allan James. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
5. "Order OSTEOGLOSSIFORMES". The ETYFish Project. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara. 2017. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
6. Robert C. Schelly; Melanie L.J. Stiassny (2004). "Revision of the Congo River Lamprologus Schilthuis, 1891 (Teleostei: Cichlidae), with Descriptions of Two New Species" (PDF). American Museum Novitates. 3541.