Friedrich Boie

Friedrich Boie (4 June 1789 – 3 March 1870) was a German entomologist, herpetologist, ornithologist, and lawyer. He was born at Meldorf in Holstein and died at Kiel. Friedrich Boie was the brother of Heinrich Boie.

In 1860, Friedrich Boie was elected a Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

Friedrich Boie was the author of ''Bemerkungen über Merrem's Versuch eines Systems der Amphibien'' (''Isis von Oken'' 1827) and ''Auszüge aus dem System der Ornithologie'' (''Isis von Oken'' 1844).

Friedrich Boie was the author of several new species and new genera of birds including the hummingbird genus ''Glaucis'', the swallow genus ''Progne'', the cuckooshrike genus ''Pericrocotus'', the passerine genus ''Lipaugus'', the owl genus ''Athene'', and the cuckoo genus ''Chrysococcyx''. Also, he and his brother Heinrich, working together, described about 50 new species of reptiles.

A species of Indian gecko, ''Cnemaspis boiei'', is named in honor of Friedrich Boie or his brother Heinrich Boie. Provided by Wikipedia