Oskar Boettger [SEP] place of death
Oskar Boettger
Oskar Boettger (; 31 March 1844 – 25 September 1910) was a German zoologist who was a native of Frankfurt am Main. He was an uncle of the noted malacologist Caesar Rudolf Boettger (1888–1976).
From 1863 to 1866 he studied at the Bergakademie Freiberg, then worked for a year in a chemical factory in Frankfurt am Main. In 1869 he received his doctorate from the University of Würzburg. The following year (1870), he became a paleontologist at the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt, where in
Austrian fossil-hunter and explorer of Madagascar.
Taxonomy.
The species was first described by German zoologist Oskar Boettger but not published until three years after his death. Its common name refers to the mossy-like camouflage patterns and colors of the lizard's skin. The whole complex of "U. sikorae" is in need of taxonomic revision and probably contains numerous new, undescribed species.
The genus "Uroplatus" contains 14 species endemic to Madagascar. The species "Uroplatus sameiti" was considered to be a subspecies