Wilhelm Moritz Keferstein

Wilhelm Moritz Keferstein was a German naturalist. He described a number of reptiles and amphibians for the first time.
He originally studied hydraulic engineering in Hanover, later becoming a lecturer and professor of zoology at the University of Göttingen.
With zoologist Ernst Ehlers, he wrote Zoologische Beiträge gesammelt im Winter 1859/60 in Neapel und Messina... in 1861.
With Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer he was co-author of a study on the electric organs of Gymnotus and Mormyrus that was published in Friedrich [Gustav Jakob Henle|Henle] and Pfeufer's Zeitschrift für rationelle Medicin. He also made important contributions to Heinrich Georg Bronn's Die Klassen und Ordnungen des Thier-Reichs.
Keferstein's tree frog is named after him, as is a genus of polychaetes, Kefersteinia.