Matteo Botteri
Matteo Botteri, (1808 – 1877) also known as Matija Botteri, was a botanist, ornithologist, and collector.
Biography
Botteri was born on the Croatian island Hvar[1] to an Italian family. He began his early career in Dalmatia and nearby Turkey[2] with flora and fauna, primarily ichthyologist investigations,[1] while headquartered in Hvar.[3] He, along with his contemporary Grgur Bučić, sent materials to Georg von Frauenfeld for his studies.[4] He also sent material to Friedrich Kützing. In 1854, he travelled to Mexico to collect plants on behalf of the Royal Horticultural Society.[5] He settled in Orizaba, where he founded a museum[6] and became professor of languages and natural history at Orizaba College.[7]
Philip Sclater commemorated him in the name of the Botteri's sparrow, which Botteri collected as well as other birds in Veracruz in 1857.[8][9] He amassed a collection of 120 unique bird species in the vicinity of Orizaba,[10] including areas such as Tuxpango, Tehuipango.[11] His keeping of slaty vireo brought attention as its green color stood out among its genus.[12]
He died in Orizaba in 1877.[1]
References
- Durbešić (2011), p. 33
- Hooker (1853), p. 221
- Durbešić (2011), p. 30
- Durbešić (2011), p. 58
- Hughey et al. (2021), p. 145
- Beolens (2014), p. 83
- Dulčić (2010), p. 110
- Harper (1930), p. 177
- Fischer (2001), p. 139
- Sclater (1857), p. 211
- Loetscher et al. (1952), p. 204
- Miller & Ray (1944), p. 41
Bibliography
- Beolens, Bo (2014). The Eponym Dictionary of Birds. London. ISBN 978-1472905734.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Dulčić, Jakov (2010). "Ihtiološki doprinosi hvarskih prirodoslovaca Luigija Stalija, Matije Botterija i Grgura Bučića tijekom 19. stoljeća". Prirodoslovlje: časopis Odjela za prirodoslovlje i matematiku Matice hrvatske (in Croatian). 10 (1–2): 107–116.
- Durbešić, Paula (22 December 2011). "CROATIAN ENTOMOFAUNA – Looking Back from the Present and Future Plans". Entomologia Croatica. 15 (1–4): 17–101. ISSN 1330-6200.
- Fischer, Dan L. (2001). "West of the 95th Meridian". Early Southwest Ornithologists, 1528-1900. University of Arizona Press. pp. 131–164. ISBN 978-0-8165-2149-4. JSTOR j.ctv21wj56r.12.
- Hooker, William Jackson (1853). Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany (Report). Vol. 5. Reeve, Benham, and Reeve.
- Hughey, Jeffery R.; Gabrielson, Paul W.; Maggs, Christine A.; Mineur, Frédéric (2021). "Genomic analysis of the lectotype specimens of European Ulva rigida and Ulva lacinulata (Ulvaceae, Chlorophyta) reveals the ongoing misapplication of names". European Journal of Phycology. 57 (2): 143–153. doi:10.1080/09670262.2021.1914862. S2CID 236257717.
- Harper, Francis (1930). "A Historical Sketch of Botteri's Sparrow". The Auk. 47 (2): 177–185. doi:10.2307/4075920. ISSN 0004-8038. JSTOR 4075920.
- Loetscher, Frederick W.; Gullion, Gordon W.; Montgomery, Vester; Fisher, Harvey I.; Young, R. T.; Sibley, Charles G.; Childs, Henry E.; Mossman, Archie S.; Dixon, Keith L.; Stoner, Emerson A.; Wooten, William A. (1952). "From Field and Study". The Condor. 54 (4): 204–208. doi:10.2307/1364637. ISSN 0010-5422. JSTOR 1364637.
- Miller, Alden H.; Ray, Milton S. (1944). "Discovery of a New Vireo of the Genus Neochloe in Southwestern Mexico". The Condor. 46 (2): 41–45. doi:10.2307/1364304. ISSN 0010-5422. JSTOR 1364304.
- Sclater, Philip Lutley (January 1857). "On a Collection of Birds Made By Signor Matteo Botteri in the Vicinity of Orizaba in Southern Mexico". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 25 (1): 210–215. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1857.tb01227.x.