Nicolaus Michael Oppel

Nicolaus Michael Oppel: Nicolaus Michael Oppel (December 7, 1782 – February 16, 1820) was a German naturalist. He was a student of, and worked as an assistant to, André Marie Constant Duméril at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris, France, cataloging and classifying species of reptiles. In 1811 he published a book entitled Die Ordnungen, Familien und Gattungen der Reptilien als Prodrom einer Naturgeschichte derselben, or The Orders, Families, and Types of Reptiles... in which he established the order, Squamata, and the families Cheloniidae, Colubridae, and the subfamily Crotalinae, as well as several genera which are still in use by taxonomists today.

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Translated from the French Wikipedia.

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Name Oppel, Nicolaus Michael

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Date of birth December 7, 1782

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Date of death February 16, 1820

Place of death Schönficht, today Smrkovec, Czech Republic

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Name	Oppel, Nicolaus Michael
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	December 7, 1782
Place of birth
Date of death	February 16, 1820
Place of death	Schönficht, today Smrkovec, Czech Republic