Israel Heymann Jonas

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wasZoologist Malacologist
Work fieldBiology
Gender
Male
Birth1795
Death1851 (aged 56 years)
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Biography

Israel Heymann Jonas (1795-1851) was a German malacologist. He studied medicine at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel, Prussia.

Species named by Jonas

The World Register of Marine Species has 104 records of marine taxa named by Jonas. Most of these names have become synonyms, except:

  • Choristodon
  • Astralium tentoriiforme
  • Bassina pachyphylla
  • Bellastraea aurea
  • Cucullaea granulosa
  • Filifusus inermis
  • Gafrarium savignyi
  • Haliotis kamtschatkana
  • Indothais gradata
  • Laemodonta octanfracta
  • Lamelliger distorta
  • Lamellolucina dentifera
  • Lanistes purpureus
  • Lutraria maxima
  • Lutraria rhynchaena
  • Menathais bimaculata
  • Microcolus dunkeri
  • Mosambicarca erythraeonensis
  • Plekocheilus bellulus
  • Plekocheilus euryomphalus
  • Pleuroploca audouini
  • Pleuroploca clava
  • Pleuroploca ponderosa
  • Pleuroploca purpurea
  • Pseudochama corbierei
  • Ropostrum Jonasson
  • Ropostrum amuletum
  • Tegillarca bicors
  • Tegula euryomphala
  • Tegula melaleucos
  • Tosatrochus attenuatus
  • Turbo magnificus
  • Vahlkampfia trilaminata
  • Vasticardium vertebratum

Species named in honor of Jonas

Hombron & Jacquinot naming a genus Jonas in honor of him; this is a crab genus in the family Corystidae. A number of marine gastropod species use the epithet "jonasii" or jonasi in his honor.

  • Arcularia jonasii : synonym of Nassarius jonasii
  • Baseodiscus jonasii
  • Buccinum jonasii : synonym of Nassarius jonasii
  • Nassa jonasii : synonym of Nassarius jonasii
  • Nassarius jonasii
  • Parcanassa jonasii : synonym of Nassarius jonasii
  • Siphonaria jonasi : synonym of Siphonaria pectinata

Publications

Jonas sometimes also published as "J." H. Jonas.

He studied, together with Wilhelm Dunker, the "Museum Gruneri", a large collection of species in the bivalve family Pteriidae. This study was published as Verzeichniß der Conchyliensammlung des verstorbenen Herrn Consul Gruner, welche im Ganzen verkauft werden soll von Bunsen Hausschild 1857. Bremer Druck 1857.

In 1846 Jonas described the "Rodatz collection". Rodatz collected many mollusks during a number of commercial expeditions from Germany to Zanzibar and West Africa in the period of 1843–51, and from the Red Sea in 1845. He had offered his specimens to Naturhistorisches Museum Hamburg [de].

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