August Friedrich Schweigger

Schweigger is the taxonomic authority of Chelydra, a genus of snapping turtles. In 1812 he described as new species the following 12 species of turtles and tortoises. • Adanson's mud turtle, Pelusios adansonii • Aldabra giant tortoise, Geochelone gigantea • South American river turtle, Podocnemis expansa • Big-headed Amazon River turtle, Peltocephalus dumerilianus • Common toad-headed turtle, Mesoclemmys nasuta • Serrated hinge-back tortoise, Kinixys erosa • Geoffroy's side-necked turtle, Phrynops geoffroanus • Gibba turtle, Mesoclemmys gibba • Indian black turtle, Melanochelys trijuga • South African bowsprit tortoise, Chersina angulata • Mediterranean turtle, Mauremys leprosa • West African mud turtle, Pelusios castaneus == Selected publications ==

• Specimen flora erlangensis, 1805. • Kranken- und Armenanstalten in Paris (Medical and charitable institutions in Paris), Bayreuth: Lübeck, 1809. • Prodromus Monographia Cheloniorum auctore Schweigger. Königsberg. Arch. Naturwiss. Mathem. 1: 271-368, 406-458, 1812. • Einige Worte über Classification der Thiere, (Treatise on the classification of animals), 1812. • Prodromi monographiae cheloniorum, 1814. • Beobachtungen auf naturhistorischen Reisen (Observations on natural history trips). Berlin, 1819. • Handbuch der Naturgeschichte der skelettlosen ungegliederten Tiere (Textbook of natural history on unsegmented invertebrates). Leipzig, 1820. • De plantarum classificatione naturalis, 1821. • "The Life and Herpetological Contributions of August Friedrich Schweigger" (Published in English); Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, 2008. == References ==