Knud Andersen (mammalogist)
Knud Christian Andersen was a Danish zoologist. His research focused on bats.
Life and work
Towards the end of the 19th century, Andersen first worked as an ornithologist and ran field studies on the Faroe Islands. In 1901 Ferdinand I awarded him an appointment at the Zoological Museum of Sofia. Due to his frustration with the working conditions, he gave up this position. In 1904, he was hired by the British Museum to research bats in the Pacific, in South-East Asia and in Queensland. He was especially interested in the genus Flying Fox and Horseshoe bats, of which he described 15 new species. He published 13 scientific papers on the South-East Asian Horseshoe bats. His most famous work was his Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the Collection of the British Museum, which is considered one of the most extensive works on flying foxes. Andersen was elected fellow of the Zoological Society of London in 1909.
In June 1918 he mysteriously disappeared; his body has never been found. His colleague Oldfield Thomas submitted his final manuscript on his behalf and stated that Andersen expected "to be absent from his scientific work for some time."
Dedicated taxa
Rhinolophus anderseni.
Dobsonia anderseni, Artibeus anderseni.
- Meddelelser om faeroernes Fugle med saerligt Hensyn til Nolsø, efter skriftlige Oplysninger, 1894
- Diomedea melanophrys, boende paa Færøerne, 1894
- Sysselmand H.C. Müller’s haandskrevne optegnelser om Færøoerne Fugle, 1901
- On the determination of age in bats, 1917
Acerodon humilis K. Andersen 1909Dobsonia praedatrix K. Andersen 1909Dobsonia inermis K. Andersen 1909Dobsonia exoleta K. Andersen 1909Eonycteris major K. Andersen 1910Pteropus cognatus K. Andersen 1908Pteropus intermedius K. Andersen 1908Pteropus lylei K. Andersen 1908Pteropus speciosus K. Andersen 1908Pteropus pelewensis K. Andersen 1908Pteropus pilosus K. Andersen 1908Pteropus yapensis K. Andersen 1908Rousettus celebensis K. Andersen 1907Macroglossus sobrinus K. Andersen 1911Nyctimene minutus K. Andersen 1910Nyctimene cyclotis K. Andersen 1910Nyctimene certans K. Andersen 1912Pteralopex anceps K. Andersen 1909Rhinolophus nereis K. Andersen 1905Rhinolophus monoceros K. Andersen 1905Rhinolophus madurensis K. Andersen 1918Rhinolophus simulator K. Andersen 1904Rhinolophus virgo K. Andersen 1905Rhinolophus thomasi K. Andersen 1905Rhinolophus subrufus K. Andersen 1905Rhinolophus sinicus K. Andersen 1905Rhinolophus robinsoni K. Andersen 1918Rhinolophus shortridgei K. Andersen 1918Rhinolophus sedulus K. Andersen 1905Rhinolophus stheno K. Andersen 1905Rhinolophus inops K. Andersen 1905Rhinolophus celebensis K. Andersen 1905Rhinolophus cognatus K. Andersen 1906Rhinolophus eloquens K. Andersen 1905Rhinolophus darlingi K. Andersen 1905Hipposideros nequam K. Andersen 1918Hipposideros pomona K. Andersen 1918Hipposideros beatus K. Andersen 1906Hipposideros dinops K. Andersen 1905Artibeus aztecus K. Andersen 1906Artibeus hirsutus K. Andersen 1906Nycteris aurita Nycteris gambiensis Nycteris major Nycteris nana Nycteris tragata Nycteris woodi K. Andersen 1914Mormopterus doriae K. Andersen 1907Dobsonia crenulata K. Andersen 1909