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neang thy 187 N Nair Ponmudi Rock Gecko Cnemaspis nairi Inger, Marx and Koshy, 1984 Dr. S. Madhavan Nair is a naturalist, museologist, and former Director of the National Museum of Natural History, New Delhi, where he served for 20 years. His early training included time at the Smithsonian (1969). In retirement he is Director of Education, New Delhi, for the World Wide Fund for Nature. He wrote Endangered Animals of India and Their Conservation (1992). Nancy Coutu Nancy Coutu’s Mabuya Mabuya nancycoutuae Nussbaum and Raxworthy, 1998 [Syn. Trachylepis nancycoutuae] Nancy Coutu (1967–1996) was an American Peace Corps volunteer who assisted the describers of this skink in their “Isalo expedition.” Cattle thieves murdered her outside her village in Madagascar (1996). She died instantly from a hatchet blow, then was raped. The villagers guarded her until she could be identified. Nancy’s journals, in a box with some clothes, arrived at her mother’s home several weeks later. Her mother published the journals, with extracts from her letters home. The book and a school in Madagascar are both called Souvenirs de Nancy. Nanuza Rodrigues’ Lava Lizard Tropidurus nanuzae Rodrigues, 1981 Dr. Nanuza Luiza de Menezes (b. 1934) is a botanist at Universidade de São Paulo, where Rodrigues is a colleague . She took all her degrees at São Paulo: bachelor’s (1960), master’s (1969), and doctorate (1971). She became a Professor (1984) and is now officially retired but still teaches as an Associate. She spent time at Kew (1979). She has spent much time investigating the trees of the Amazon basin. Napoleon Napoleon Skink Egernia napoleonis Gray, 1839 Named after Terre Napoléon, a former name given to parts of southern Australia. Narducci Jan’s Thread Coral Snake Micrurus narduccii Jan, 1863 [Alt. Andean Black Coral Snake] Dr. Louis Narducci was a Bolivian naturalist. Nasrullah Gecko sp. Asaccus nasrullahi Werner, 2006 Dr. Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani is a zoologist and herpetologist who is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Raza University , Iran. His bachelor’s (1986) and master’s degrees (1991) were both awarded by Iranian universities and his doctorate by Göteborgs Universitet (1999). Natalia Pricklenape (agamid lizard) sp. Acanthosaura nataliae Orlov, Truong, and Sang, 2006 Dr. Natalia Borisovna “Natasha” Ananjeva (b. 1946) is a Russian biologist and herpetologist who is head of the Herpetology Department, Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. The describer, Orlov, is a member of her staff and has co-authored articles with her. See also Anan. Natterer Natterer’s Hognose Snake Lystrophis nattereri Steindachner , 1867 Paraguayan Green Racer Philodryas nattereri Steindachner , 1870 Natterer’s Gecko Tropiocolotes nattereri Steindachner, 1901 Dr. Johann Natterer (1787–1843) was a naturalist and collector. He studied botany, zoology, mineralogy, chemistry, and anatomy and was appointed as a taxidermist at the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien. He, Spix, and others went on an expedition to Brazil (1817), which started on the occasion of Archduchess Leopoldina’s wedding to the Brazilian Crown Prince. Everyone traveled in two Austrian frigates. Natterer explored a potential river route to Paraguay (1818–1819) and went on five expeditions, exploring the Mato Grosso and the Amazon Basin (1821–1835). He returned to Vienna with a huge collection of specimens (37 crates), despite losing most of his possessions in the Brazilian Civil War, and deposited 12,293 birds and around 24,000 insects with Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, where they can still be seen. He died of a lung ailment. He published only a few short accounts, and unfortunately his notebooks and diary were destroyed by fire (1848). He never received the credit he was due in Austria but was held in the highest esteem abroad. Among the many taxa named after him are 2 mammals, 11 birds, and a piranha. Neang Thy Gecko sp. Cnemaspis neangthyi Grismer, Grismer, and Chav, 2010 Dr. Neang Thy (b. 1970) is a Cambodian herpetologist 188 nečas and conservationist who works at the Ministry of Environment, where he is head of the Botanical Garden Office and of Fauna and Flora International’s Cardamom Mountains Research Group. He co-wrote “A New Species of Chiromantis Peters 1854 (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from Phnom Samkos in the Northwestern Cardamom Mountains, Cambodia” (2007). Nečas Necas’ Chameleon Chamaeleo necasi Ullenbruch, Krause, and Böhme, 2007 Petr Nečas (b. 1969)—not the Czech politician of the same name—is a herpetologist particularly interested in chameleons. He has written over 100 articles and published (in German) Chameleons...
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