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Nicolaus Michael Oppel
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Nicolaus Michael Oppel (December 7, 1782–February 16, 1820) was a German naturalist. He was a student of, and worked as an assistant to, André Marie Constant Duméril at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris, France, cataloging and classifying species of reptile. In 1811 he published a book entitled Die Ordnungen, Familien und Gattungen der Reptilien als Prodrom einer Naturgeschichte derselben, or The Orders, Families, and Types of Reptiles... in which he estabslished the order, squamata, and the families cheloniidae, colubridae, and the subfamily crotalinae, as well as several genera which are still in use by taxonomists today.
- Translated from the French Wikipedia.
- Integrated Taxonomic Database
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