Eltio Alegondas Forsten Explained

Eltio Alegondas Forsten (12 July 1811, Middelburg  - 1843, Ambon Island) was a Dutch naturalist.^[1]

He studied medicine at Leiden, obtaining his degree in 1836 with a thesis on Cedrela febrifuga, titled "Dissertatio botanico-pharmaceutico-medica inauguralis de cedrela febrifuga".^[2] In 1838 he became a member of the Natuurkundige Commissie for the Dutch East Indies, where he would spend the next several years collecting zoological and botanical specimens (Java, Sulawesi, Ternate, Ambon).^[3]

Eponymy (birds and reptiles)

• Forsten's cat snake, Boiga forsteni
• Forsten's lorikeet, Trichoglossus forsteni
• Forsten's megapode, Megapodius freycinet
• Forsten's pointed snake, Rabdion forsteni
• Forsten's tortoise, Indotestudo forstenii ^[4]
• Purple-bearded bee-eater, Meropogon forsteni ^[5]

Notes and References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=XJ27q_g8X24C&pg=PA224 Levensberichten van Zeeuwen, Volume 1
2. https://books.google.com/books?id=RaMvQwAACAAJ Google Books
3. http://www.nationaalherbarium.nl/fmcollectors/F/ForstenEA.htm Nationaal Herbarium Nederland
4. https://books.google.com/books?id=0F758vNQ0UUC&pg=PT303 The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles
5. https://books.google.com/books?id=En4wBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT442 The Eponym Dictionary of Birds