Albert Günther
Anglo-German zoologist
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- 1830–1914
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About Albert Günther
Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther, also Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther, was a German-born British zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. Günther is ranked the second-most productive reptile taxonomist with more than 340 reptile species described and the third-most productive fish taxonomist with about 1600 fish species described.
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