Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873), Swiss-born American geologist and zoologist (cnidariology and palaeontology), father of Alexander Agassiz.

IPNI standard form: Agassiz, also L. Agassiz

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159 taxon names authored by Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

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1 eponym of Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

Publications

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1829

Spix, J.B. von & Agassiz, J.L.R. 1829. Selecta genera et species piscium quos in itinere per Brasiliam annos MDCCCXVII–MDCCCXX jussu et auspiciis Maximiliani Josephi I… colleget et pingendso curavit Dr J. B. de Spix… Monachii. Part 1: i–xvi + i–ii + 1–82, Pls. 1–48; Part 2: 83–138, Pls. 49–101. Reference page.

1831

Agassiz, J.L.R. 1831. Selecta genera et species piscium quos in itinere per Brasiliam annos MDCCCXVII-MDCCCXX jussu et auspiciis Maximiliani Josephi I... colleget et pingendso curavit Dr J.B. de Spix... F.S. Hübschmann, Monachii [= Munich] & Fleischer, Lipsiae [= Leipzig]: i-xvi, i-ii, 1–138, pls. 1-101.

1832

Agassiz, J.L.R. 1832. Untersuchungen über die fossilen Süsswasser-Fische der tertiären Formationen. Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde 3: 129–138. PDF. Reference page.

1833

Agassiz, J.L.R. 1833–1844. Recherches sur les poissons fossiles. 1420 pp. Imprimerie de Petitpierre, Neuchâtel. Reference page.

1834

Agassiz, J.L.R. 1834. Abgerissene Bemerkungen über fossile Fische. pp. 379–390 in: von Leonhard, K. C. & Bronn, H. G. (eds.): Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde, 1834 (4). E. Schweitzbarts Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart. GoogleBooks Reference page.

1835

Agassiz, J.L.R. 1835. Revue critique des poissons fossiles figurés dans l'Ittiolitologia veronesé. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefakten-Kunde 1835: 290–316. Reference page.
Agassiz, J.L.R. 1835. Feuilleton additionnel aux Recherches sur les poissons fossiles. 144 pp. Imprimerie de Petitpierre, Neuchâtel. Reference page.

1836

Agassiz, J.L.R. 1836. Prodrome d'une Monographie des Radiaires ou Echinodermes. Mémoires de la Société des Sciences Naturelles de Neuchâtel. 1[1835]: 168-199. BHL. Reference page.

1837

Agassiz, J.L.R. 1837. Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome III (livr. 8–9). Imprimérie de Petitpierre, Neuchatel viii–72. Reference page.

1838

Agassiz, J.L.R. 1838. Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome III (livr. 11). Imprimérie de Petitpierre, Neuchatel 73–140. Reference page.
Murchison, R.I. 1838. On the fishes of the Ludlow rocks, or upper beds of the Silurian System. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Liverpool 1837: 91. BHL Reference page.

1840

Agassiz, J.L.R. 1840. Catalogus systematicus Ectyporum Echinodermatum fossilium Musei Neocomiensis, secundum ordinem zoologicum dispositus; adjectis synonymis recentioribus, nec non stratis et locis in quibus reperiuntur. Sequuntur characteres diagnostici generum novorum vel minus cognitorum. 20 pp. Oliv. Petitpierre, Neuchâtel. BHL Reference page.

1841

Agassiz, J.L.R. 1841. On the fossil fishes found by Mr. Gardner in the Province of Ceará, in the North of Brazil. Edinburg New Philosophical Journal, 30: 82–84. Reference page.

1842

Agassiz J.L.R., Meyer, H. von, Wagner, J.A. & Waterhouse, G.R. 1842. Nomina systematic generum mammalium, tam viventium quam fossilium. Jent & Gassmann. Solothurn: 1–38. BHL
Agassiz J.L.R. 1842. Nomina systematic generum echinodermatum, tam viventium quam fossilium. Jent & Gassmann. Solothurn: 1-14. BHL
Agassiz J.L.R. 1842. Nomina systematic generum acalepharum, tam viventium quam fossilium. Jent & Gassmann. Solothurn: 1-7. BHL
Agassiz J.L.R., Bonaparte, C.L., Gray, J.E. & Strickland, H.E. 1842. Nomina systematic generum avium, tam viventium quam fossilium. Jent & Gassmann. Solothurn: 1–90. BHL

1843

Agassiz J.L.R. 1843. Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome I (livr. 18). Imprimerie de Petitpierre, Neuchatel xxxii-188.
Agassiz J.L.R. & Burmeister, H. 1843. Nomina systematic generum crustaceorum, tam viventium quam fossilium. Jent & Gassmann. Solothurn: 1-28. BHL
Agassiz J.L.R. & Miescher, F. 1843. Nomina systematica generum vermium (annulatorum, tubellarium et entozoorum), tam viventium quam fossilium. Jent & Gassmann. Solothurn: 1-14. BHL
Agassiz J.L.R., Erichson, W.F. & Germar, E.F. 1843. Nomina systematica generum hemipterorum, tam viventium quam fossilium. Jent & Gassmann. Solothurn: 1–20. BHL
Agassiz J.L.R. & Ehrenberg, C.G. 1843. Nomina systematica generum polygastricorum, tam viventium quam fossilium. Jent & Gassmann. Solothurn: 1-13. BHL
Agassiz J.L.R. & Ehrenberg, C.G. 1843. Nomina systematica generum rotatorium, tam viventium quam fossilium. Jent & Gassmann. Solothurn: 1-5. BHL

1844

Agassiz, J.L.R. 1844-45. Monographie de poissons fossiles des Vieux Grès Rouges ou Système Dévonien (Old Red Sandstone) des Îles Britanniques et de Russie. Imprimerie de Petitpierre et Prince, Neuchâtel. Reference page.
Agassiz J.L.R., Erichson, W.F. & Germar, E.F. 1844. Nomina systematica generum neuropterorum, tam viventium quam fossilium. Jent & Gassmann. Solothurn: 1–8. BHL
Agassiz J.L.R., Charpentier, T. & Erichson, W.F. 1844. Nomina systematica generum orthopterorum, tam viventium quam fossilium. Jent & Gassmann. Solothurn: 1–14. BHL
Agassiz J.L.R. 1844. Nomina systematica generum polyporum, tam viventium quam fossilium. Jent & Gassmann. Solothurn: 1-28. BHL
Agassiz J.L.R., Bonaparte, C.L., Duméril, C., Gray, E., Kaup, J.J. 1844. Nomina systematica generum reptilium, tam viventium quam fossilium. Jent & Gassmann. Solothurn: 1–48. BHL

1845

Agassiz J.L.R. 1845. Nomina systematica generum piscium, tam viventium quam fossilium. Jent & Gassmann. Solothurn: 1–69. BHL
Agassiz J.L.R., Erichson, W.F. & Imhoff, L. 1845. Nomina systematica generum hymenopterorum, tam viventium quam fossilium. Jent & Gassmann. Solothurn: 1–36. BHL

1846

Agassiz J.L.R., Gray, J.E., Menke, C.T. & Strickland, H.E. 1846. Nomina systematica generum molluscorum, tam viventium quam fossilium. Jent & Gassmann. Solothurn: 1–98. BHL
Agassiz J.L.R. & Zeller, H. 1846. Nomina systematica generum lepidopterorum, tam viventium quam fossilium. Jent & Gassmann. Solothurn: 1–70. BHL
Agassiz J.L.R. & Loew, H. 1846. Nomina systematica generum dipterorum, tam viventium quam fossilium. Jent & Gassmann. Solothurn: 1–42. BHL
Agassiz J.L.R. & Erichson, W.F. 1846. Nomina systematica generum arachnidarum, tam viventium quam fossilium. Jent & Gassmann. Solothurn: 1-14. BHL
Agassiz J.L.R. & Erichson, W.F. 1846. Nomina systematica generum coleopterorum, tam viventium quam fossilium. Jent & Gassmann. Solothurn: 1–170. BHL
Agassiz J.L.R. 1846. Nomenclatoris Zoologici Index Universalis, continens nomina systematica classium, ordinum, familiarum et generum animalium omnium tam viventium quam fossilium. Jent & Gassmann. Solothurn. viii + 393 pp. BHL.
Agassiz J.L.R. & Desor, P.J.E. 1846. Catalogue raisonné des familles, des genres et des espèces de la Classe des Échinodermes. Annales des sciences naturelles. Zoologie. (3)6: 305–374. BHL. Reference page.

1847

Agassiz J.L.R. & Desor, P.J.E. 1847a. Catalogue raisonné des espèces, des genres et des familles d'équinides. Suite. Annales des sciences naturelles. Zoologie. (3)7: 129–168. BHL. Reference page.
Agassiz J.L.R. & Desor, P.J.E. 1847b. Catalogue raisonné des espèces, des genres et des familles d'équinides. Suite. Annales des sciences naturelles. Zoologie. (3)8: 5–35 BHL, 355–380 BHL. Reference page.
Agassiz J.L.R. 1847. Système glaciaires, ou, Recherches sur les glaciers, leur mécanisme, leur ancienne extension et le rôle qu'ils ont joué dans l'histoire de la terre: leur structure …
Agassiz J.L.R. 1847. Lettre sur quelques points d'organisation des animaux rayonnés. Paris. Comptes rendus.

1848

Agassiz J.L.R. 1848. Nomenclatoris Zoologici Index Universalis, continens nomina systematica classium, ordinum, familiarum et generum animalium omnium tam viventium quam fossilium: Index Unversalis. Jent & Gassmann. Solothurn: 1–1097. BHL

1852

Agassiz, J.L.R. 1852. Ueber die Gattungen unter den nordamerikanischen Najaden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte. 18(1): 41-52. BHL Reference page.

1854

Agassiz, J.L.R. 1854. Notice of a collection of fishes from the southern bend of the Tennessee River, in the State of Alabama. American Journal of Science and Arts (Series 2) 17: 297–308, 353–365. BHL Reference page.