Albertus Jacobus Duymaer van Twist explained

Albertus Jacobus Duymaer van Twist
Office:	Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies
Term Start:	15 May 1851
Term End:	22 May 1856
Predecessor:	Jan Jacob Rochussen
Successor:	Charles Ferdinand Pahud
Birth Date:	20 February 1809
Birth Place:	Deventer, Kingdom of Holland
Death Place:	Diepenveen, Netherlands

Albertus Jacobus Duymaer van Twist (20 February 1809 – 3 December 1887) was the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1851 to 1856.^[1]

Taxon named in his honor

• The fish yellow-breasted wrasse, Anampses twistii was named after him.^[2]
• Iniistius twistii, the Redblotch razorfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish from the family Labridae, the wrasses. It is found in the Western Pacific Ocean.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Mr. A.J. Duymaer van Twist, Parlement & Politiek; retrieved 17 January 2015.
2. Bleeker, P. . 1856 . Beschrijvingen van nieuwe en weinig bekende vischsoorten van Amboina, verzameld op eene reis door den Molukschen Archipel, gedaan in het gevolg van den Gouverneur Generaal Duymaer van Twist, in September en Oktober 1855 . Acta Societatis Regiae Scientiarum Indo-Neêrlandicae . 1 . 1–72, 73–76 . nl.
3. Web site: Order LABRIFORMES: Family LABRIDAE (i-x) . 7 February 2023 . Christopher Scharpf . Kenneth J. Lazara . amp . The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database . Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara . 22 September 2018.