Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873), Swiss-born American geologist and zoologist (cnidariology and palaeontology), father of Alexander Agassiz.

Louis Agassiz

IPNI standard form: Agassiz, also L. Agassiz

Taxon names authored

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• 169 taxon names authored by Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

Eponyms

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• 1 eponym of Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

Publications

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1829

• Spix, J.B. von & Agassiz, J.L.R. 1829. Selecta genera et species piscium quos in itinere per Brasiliam annos MDCCCXVII–MDCCCXX jussu et auspiciis Maximiliani Josephi I… colleget et pingendso curavit Dr J. B. de Spix. Monachii. Part 1: i–xvi + i–ii + 1–82, Pls. 1–48; Part 2: 83–138, Pls. 49–101. BHL Reference page. 

1831

• Agassiz, J.L.R. 1831. Selecta genera et species piscium quos in itinere per Brasiliam annos MDCCCXVII-MDCCCXX jussu et auspiciis Maximiliani Josephi I... colleget et pingendso curavit Dr J.B. de Spix... F.S. Hübschmann, Monachii [= Munich] & Fleischer, Lipsiae [= Leipzig]: i-xvi, i-ii, 1–138, pls. 1-101.

1832

• Agassiz, J.L.R. 1832. Untersuchungen über die fossilen Süsswasser-Fische der tertiären Formationen. Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde 3: 129–138. PDF. Reference page. 

1833

• Agassiz, J.L.R. 1833–1844. Recherches sur les poissons fossiles. 1420 pp. Imprimerie de Petitpierre, Neuchâtel. Reference page. 

1834

• Agassiz, J.L.R. 1834. Abgerissene Bemerkungen über fossile Fische. pp. 379–390 in: von Leonhard, K. C. & Bronn, H. G. (eds.): Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde, 1834 (4). E. Schweitzbarts Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart. GoogleBooks Reference page. 

1835

• Agassiz, J.L.R. 1835. Revue critique des poissons fossiles figurés dans l'Ittiolitologia veronesé. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefakten-Kunde 1835: 290–316. Reference page. 
• Agassiz, J.L.R. 1835. Feuilleton additionnel aux Recherches sur les poissons fossiles. 144 pp. Imprimerie de Petitpierre, Neuchâtel. Reference page. 

1836

• Agassiz, J.L.R. 1836. Prodrome d'une Monographie des Radiaires ou Echinodermes. Mémoires de la Société des Sciences Naturelles de Neuchâtel. 1[1835]: 168-199. BHL. Reference page. 

1837

• Agassiz, J.L.R. 1837. Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome III (livr. 8–9). Imprimérie de Petitpierre, Neuchatel viii–72. Reference page. 

1838

• Agassiz, J.L.R. 1838. Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome III (livr. 11). Imprimérie de Petitpierre, Neuchatel 73–140. Reference page. 
• Murchison, R.I. 1838. On the fishes of the Ludlow rocks, or upper beds of the Silurian System. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Liverpool 1837: 91. BHL Reference page. 

1840

• Agassiz, J.L.R. 1840. Catalogus systematicus Ectyporum Echinodermatum fossilium Musei Neocomiensis, secundum ordinem zoologicum dispositus; adjectis synonymis recentioribus, nec non stratis et locis in quibus reperiuntur. Sequuntur characteres diagnostici generum novorum vel minus cognitorum. 20 pp. Oliv. Petitpierre, Neuchâtel. BHL Reference page. 

1841

• Agassiz, J.L.R. 1841. On the fossil fishes found by Mr. Gardner in the Province of Ceará, in the North of Brazil. Edinburg New Philosophical Journal, 30: 82–84. Reference page. 

1842

• Agassiz J.L.R., Meyer, H. von, Wagner, J.A. & Waterhouse, G.R. 1842. Nomina systematic generum mammalium, tam viventium quam fossilium. Jent & Gassmann. Solothurn: 1–38. BHL
• Agassiz J.L.R. 1842. Nomina systematic generum echinodermatum, tam viventium quam fossilium. Jent & Gassmann. Solothurn: 1-14. BHL
• Agassiz J.L.R. 1842. Nomina systematic generum acalepharum, tam viventium quam fossilium. Jent & Gassmann. Solothurn: 1-7. BHL
• Agassiz J.L.R., Bonaparte, C.L., Gray, J.E. & Strickland, H.E. 1842. Nomina systematic generum avium, tam viventium quam fossilium. Jent & Gassmann. Solothurn: 1–90. BHL

1843

• Agassiz J.L.R. 1843. Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome I (livr. 18). Imprimerie de Petitpierre, Neuchatel xxxii-188.
• Agassiz J.L.R. & Burmeister, H. 1843. Nomina systematic generum crustaceorum, tam viventium quam fossilium. Jent & Gassmann. Solothurn: 1-28. BHL
• Agassiz J.L.R. & Miescher, F. 1843. Nomina systematica generum vermium (annulatorum, tubellarium et entozoorum), tam viventium quam fossilium. Jent & Gassmann. Solothurn: 1-14. BHL
• Agassiz J.L.R., Erichson, W.F. & Germar, E.F. 1843. Nomina systematica generum hemipterorum, tam viventium quam fossilium. Jent & Gassmann. Solothurn: 1–20. BHL
• Agassiz J.L.R. & Ehrenberg, C.G. 1843. Nomina systematica generum polygastricorum, tam viventium quam fossilium. Jent & Gassmann. Solothurn: 1-13. BHL
• Agassiz J.L.R. & Ehrenberg, C.G. 1843. Nomina systematica generum rotatorium, tam viventium quam fossilium. Jent & Gassmann. Solothurn: 1-5. BHL

1844

• Agassiz, J.L.R. 1844-45. Monographie de poissons fossiles des Vieux Grès Rouges ou Système Dévonien (Old Red Sandstone) des Îles Britanniques et de Russie. Imprimerie de Petitpierre et Prince, Neuchâtel. BHL Reference page. 
• Agassiz J.L.R., Erichson, W.F. & Germar, E.F. 1844. Nomina systematica generum neuropterorum, tam viventium quam fossilium. Jent & Gassmann. Solothurn: 1–8. BHL
• Agassiz J.L.R., Charpentier, T. & Erichson, W.F. 1844. Nomina systematica generum orthopterorum, tam viventium quam fossilium. Jent & Gassmann. Solothurn: 1–14. BHL
• Agassiz J.L.R. 1844. Nomina systematica generum polyporum, tam viventium quam fossilium. Jent & Gassmann. Solothurn: 1-28. BHL
• Agassiz J.L.R., Bonaparte, C.L., Duméril, C., Gray, E., Kaup, J.J. 1844. Nomina systematica generum reptilium, tam viventium quam fossilium. Jent & Gassmann. Solothurn: 1–48. BHL

1845

• Agassiz J.L.R. 1845. Nomina systematica generum piscium, tam viventium quam fossilium. Jent & Gassmann. Solothurn: 1–69. BHL
• Agassiz J.L.R., Erichson, W.F. & Imhoff, L. 1845. Nomina systematica generum hymenopterorum, tam viventium quam fossilium. Jent & Gassmann. Solothurn: 1–36. BHL

1846

• Agassiz J.L.R., Gray, J.E., Menke, C.T. & Strickland, H.E. 1846. Nomina systematica generum molluscorum, tam viventium quam fossilium. Jent & Gassmann. Solothurn: 1–98. BHL
• Agassiz J.L.R. & Zeller, H. 1846. Nomina systematica generum lepidopterorum, tam viventium quam fossilium. Jent & Gassmann. Solothurn: 1–70. BHL
• Agassiz J.L.R. & Loew, H. 1846. Nomina systematica generum dipterorum, tam viventium quam fossilium. Jent & Gassmann. Solothurn: 1–42. BHL
• Agassiz J.L.R. & Erichson, W.F. 1846. Nomina systematica generum arachnidarum, tam viventium quam fossilium. Jent & Gassmann. Solothurn: 1-14. BHL
• Agassiz J.L.R. & Erichson, W.F. 1846. Nomina systematica generum coleopterorum, tam viventium quam fossilium. Jent & Gassmann. Solothurn: 1–170. BHL
• Agassiz J.L.R. 1846. Nomenclatoris Zoologici Index Universalis, continens nomina systematica classium, ordinum, familiarum et generum animalium omnium tam viventium quam fossilium. Jent & Gassmann. Solothurn. viii + 393 pp. BHL.
• Agassiz J.L.R. & Desor, P.J.E. 1846. Catalogue raisonné des familles, des genres et des espèces de la Classe des Échinodermes. Annales des sciences naturelles. Zoologie. (3)6: 305–374. BHL. Reference page. 

1847

• Agassiz J.L.R. & Desor, P.J.E. 1847a. Catalogue raisonné des espèces, des genres et des familles d'équinides. Suite. Annales des sciences naturelles. Zoologie. (3)7: 129–168. BHL. Reference page. 
• Agassiz J.L.R. & Desor, P.J.E. 1847b. Catalogue raisonné des espèces, des genres et des familles d'équinides. Suite. Annales des sciences naturelles. Zoologie. (3)8: 5–35 BHL, 355–380 BHL. Reference page. 
• Agassiz J.L.R. 1847. Système glaciaires, ou, Recherches sur les glaciers, leur mécanisme, leur ancienne extension et le rôle qu'ils ont joué dans l'histoire de la terre: leur structure …
• Agassiz J.L.R. 1847. Lettre sur quelques points d'organisation des animaux rayonnés. Paris. Comptes rendus.

1848

• Agassiz J.L.R. 1848. Nomenclatoris Zoologici Index Universalis, continens nomina systematica classium, ordinum, familiarum et generum animalium omnium tam viventium quam fossilium: Index Unversalis. Jent & Gassmann. Solothurn: 1–1097. BHL

1849

• Agassiz, L. 1849. On the Naked-eyed Medusae of the Shores of Massachusetts in their perfect state of development (Contributions to the Natural History of the Acalephae of North America Part 1. Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (n. s.) 4: 221–312. BHL Reference page. 

1852

• Agassiz, J.L.R. 1852. Ueber die Gattungen unter den nordamerikanischen Najaden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte. 18(1): 41-52. BHL Reference page. 

1854

• Agassiz, J.L.R. 1854. Notice of a collection of fishes from the southern bend of the Tennessee River, in the State of Alabama. American Journal of Science and Arts (Series 2) 17: 297–308, 353–365. BHL Reference page. 

1857

• Agassiz, J.L.R. 1857. Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America vol. 1, I–LII + pp.1–452. Little, Brown & Co., Boston. BHL Reference page. 
• Agassiz, J.L.R. 1857. Contributions to the natural history of the United States of America. Vol. II. Little, Brown & Co, Boston; pp. 449–643. BHL Reference page. 

1860

• Agassiz, J.L.R. 1860. Contributions to the natural history of the United States of America. Vol. III. Little, Brown & Co, Boston; pp. i.–xii, 1–301. BHL Reference page. 

1862

• Agassiz, L. 1862. Contributions to the natural history of the United States of America. Little Brown, Boston. 4: 1-380, pls 1-19. BHL Reference page. 
• Agassiz, L. 1862. Contributions to the natural history of the United States of America. Vol. 4. 380 pp., 19 pl. Little Brown, Boston. BHL Reference page. 

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