> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 794](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333933) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9978-1) LSID 9978-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15572) QID Q15572 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Spix, Johann Baptist von (1781-1826), German (Bavarian) traveller and zoologist; from 1811 curator of the zoological collections of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften; from 1817-1820 with C.F.P. von Martius in Brazil. **Abbreviated name**: *Spix* \[standard form in IPNI: *Spix*\] #### Herbarium and types See under C.F.P. von Martius (and e.g. Flora 34: 6. 1851). #### Bibliography and biography ADB 35: 231-232 (F. Ratzel); Barnhart 3: 311 (d. 13 Mai 1826); BM 5: 1992-1993; Colmeiro 1: cci; DSB 12: 578-579; Herder p. 60; Lasègue p. 230, 477; NI p. 189, 190; PR ed. 1: 6584; Quenstedt p. 408; Rehder 1: 341; Saccardo 1: 157, 2: 103; TL-2/5516, 5531, see J.E. Pohl; Tucker 1: 664. #### Biofile - Anon., Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print. books 227: 724-725. 1964; Cat. gén. livr. impr. Bibl. natl. 176: 817-819. 1949; Flora 1: 557. 1818, 3: 636. 1820. - Berthel, D.E. et al, Mater. Bras.-Exp. 1821-1829, G.H. von Langsdorff, Berlin 1979, p. 14, 20, 23, 27, 35, 69, 158, 203. - Burckhardt, R., Zool. Ann. Würzburg 2: 31-46. 1906 (on Spix' Gesch. Beurth. Syst. Zool., 1811). - Carus, C.G. & C.F.P. von Martius, Eine Altersfreundschaft in Briefen 14, 120, 121, 123, 125. 1939. - Embacher, F., Lexik. Reisen 274-275. 1882. - Gistl, J. Fauna, München 2(1-3): 7-8. 1835 (biogr., frontisp., portr.). - Lux, W., *in* S. v. Pölnitz, ed., Lebensläufe aus Franken 6: 532-535. 1960. - Martius, C.F.P. von, Gel. Anz. München 1850: 723, 737. 1850 (coll.); Flora 10(1) Beil. 3: 94-97. 1827; Akad. Denkreden 599-601. 1866. - Nissen, C., Zool. Buchill. 391-392. 1969. - Papavero, N., Essays hist. neotrop. Dipterol. 1: 61, 65-69, 99, 111, 145. 1971. - Sabin, J. et al., Bibl. Amer. 23: 10-12. 1932-1933. - Schmid, G., Goethe u.d. Naturw. 617 \[index\]. 1940. - Schrank, F. v. P., Flora 1: 65-84. 1818 (travel report). - Swainson, W., Taxidermy 334-335. 1840. #### Composite works With C.F.P. von Martius, *Reise Brasilien* 1823-1831, see TL-2/5516 and 5531. – Concise English translation: London, 1824, 2 vols., translated by H.E. Lloyd. – Review in Flora 7(1): 1-8, 17-26. 1824, 11(2): 385-396, 449-459. 1828. #### Eponymy *Spixia* F. von Paula von Schrank (1821); *Spixia* P. Leandro de Sacramento (1821).