Georg Duncker
Paul Georg Egmont Duncker was a German ichthyologist.Biography
He studied at the universities of Kiel, Freiburg, and Berlin, receiving his doctorate at Kiel in 1895. Following graduation he lived and worked in Karlsruhe, Plymouth, Naples, Cold Spring Harbour, and Würzburg. From 1901 he worked as a curator for a year at the Selangor State Museum in Kuala Lumpur, afterwards returning to Europe, where he spent another year in Naples.
He was a member of the Hamburg Südsee-Expedition during its first year in Oceania, of which, he collected specimens on behalf of the Hamburg Zoological Museum. From 1928 onward, he worked as a curator and professor at the Museum. In 1939 he became an honorary member of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists.
In 1904 he described the Harlequin rasbora, Trigonostigma heteromorpha, a fish species that inhabits the forest streams of Southeast Asia. Taxa with the specific epithet of dunckeri honor his name, such as:
- Barbodes dunckeri, sometimes referred to as a bigspot barb.
- Phallostethus dunckeri.
- Solegnathus dunckeri, sometimes referred to as Duncker's pipehorse.
Published works
- Die Fische der malayischen Halbinsel, In: Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg, volume 21 - Fish of the Malay Peninsula.
- Die Gattungen der Syngnathidae, In: Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg, volume 19 - Genera of the family Syngnathidae.
