Pieter Bleeker

Pieter Bleeker (10 July 1819 – 24 January 1878) was a Dutch medical doctor, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. He was famous for the Atlas Ichthyologique des Indes Orientales Néêrlandaises, his monumental work on the fishes of East Asia published between 1862 and 1877. Bleeker died on 24 January 1878 in The Hague.

This is a photograph of Pieter Bleeker.

Pieter Bleeker
Born	10 July 1819 Zaandam, the Netherlands
Died	24 January 1878 (aged 58) The Hague, the Netherlands
Known for	Atlas Ichthyologique des Indes Orientales Néêrlandaises
Awards	Doctorates honoris causa at Leyden University and Utrecht University, Légion d'honneur
Scientific career
Fields	Herpetology Ichthyology Tropical medicine
Institutions	Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences National Museum of Natural History (France) Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies
Author abbrev. (zoology)	Bleeker

Taxa named after him

• Osteochilus bleekeri - a cyprinid fish endemic to Borneo and Sumatra
• Triplophysa bleekeri - a stone loach endemic to China
• Argyrops bleekeri, an argyrops fish also known as the Taiwan tai
• Chlorurus bleekeri, known commonly as Bleeker's parrotfish

Related pages

• Kyphosichthys

References

• "Pieter Bleeker (1819 - 1878)". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 15 July 2020.
• "Naturalis Topstukken". topstukken.naturalis.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2021-04-08.

Further reading

• P. Bleeker, Levensbericht in: Jaarboek, 1877, Amsterdam, pp. 5-159 (Autobiography of Bleeker with an introduction by Pieter Harting). (in Dutch).
• Whitehead PJ, Boeseman M, Wheeler AC (1966). "The types of Bleeker's Indo-Pacific Elopoid and Clupeoid Fishes". Zoologische Verhandelingen. 84: 1–152.