Amandus Heinrich Christian Zietz

Amandus Heinrich Christian Zietz (13 June 1840–2 August 1921) was a zoologist and paleontologist born in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, and best known for his work at the South Australian Museum in Adelaide, after arriving in South Australia in 1883.[1]

He and his son Frederick Robert Zietz, also a zoologist, worked on preserving bones from a diprotodon skeleton.[2] Along with E. C. Stirling, also at the South Australian museum, he undertook the direction of the first major palaeontology excavation at Lake Callabonna, where a large series of Diprotodont skeletal material was collected.[3] Zietz was responsible for identifying a hitherto unknown species of shark from Investigator Strait, which became known as Asymbolus vincenti, or Gulf catshark.[4]

He is buried in West Terrace Cemetery in Adelaide.[5]

Works

His publications include:

  • Stirling, E. C. & Zietz, A. H. C. (1896), "Genyornis newtoni, a fossil struthious bird from Lake Callabonna, South Australia: description of the bones of the leg and foot", Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 20 (2): 191–210
  • Stirling, E. C. & Zietz, A. H. C. (1898), "Preliminary notes on Phascolonus gigas, Owen [Phascolomys (Phascolonus) gigas, Owen], and its identity with Sceparnodon ramsayi, Owen", Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 23 (1): 123–133
  • Zietz, A. H. C. (1899), "Notes on some fossil reptilian remains from the Warburton River, near Lake Eyre", Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 23 (2): 208–210
  • Zietz, A. H. C. (1900), "Description of a new species of Acanthiza (A. tenuirostris)", Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 24 (2): 112–112
  • Zietz, A. H. C. (1902), "List of the edible fish of the lower Murray", Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 26 (2): 265–267
  • Zietz, A. H. C. (1906), "A note on some modifications of the mammalian vertebrae", Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 30: 325–325
  • Zietz, A. H. C. (1908), "Description of a hitherto undescribed species of shark from Investigator Strait", Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 32: 287–287
  • Zietz, A. H. C. (1908), "A synopsis of the fishes of South Australia. Parts I and II", Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 32: 287–299
  • Zietz, A. H. C. (1909), "A synopsis of the fishes of South Australia. Part III", Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 33: 263–269
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References
  1. Saunders, Brian (2012). "Waite". Discovery of Australia's Fishes: A History of Australian Ichthyology to 1930. pp. 290–316.
  2. "Amandus Heinrich Christian Zietz (1890, English, Photograph edition, Portrait Collection)". Trove. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
  3. Vickers-Rich, P. (1993). Wildlife of Gondwana. NSW: Reed. p. 54. ISBN 0730103153.
  4. Asymbolus vincenti
  5. "Amandus Heinrich Christian Zietz". BillionGraves. Retrieved 25 April 2019.


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