Eltio Alegondas Forsten
# Eltio Alegondas Forsten

Eltio Alegondas Forsten (12 July 1811, Middelburg – 1843, Ambon Island) was a Dutch naturalist.

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". 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).

## 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
* Purple-bearded bee-eater, Meropogon forsteni
