. Bonn zoological bulletin. Zoology. Amphibians and reptiles collected by Moritz Wagner 217. Fig. 1. Moritz Wagner (1813-1887), portrait from Franz Hanfstaengl about 1860. Courtesy of the Stadtmuseum Miinchen. Wagner travelled (1836-38) to Algeria during the French occupation and war (1830-1847) as member of a scientific group within the French army. This was the same expedition during which Alphonse Guichenot, a well- known herpetologist from the Paris Museum, collected da- ta for his herpetological monograph (Guichenot 1850). The amphibians and reptiles collected by Wagner were lat- er ident
. Bonn zoological bulletin. Zoology. Amphibians and reptiles collected by Moritz Wagner 217. Fig. 1. Moritz Wagner (1813-1887), portrait from Franz Hanfstaengl about 1860. Courtesy of the Stadtmuseum Miinchen. Wagner travelled (1836-38) to Algeria during the French occupation and war (1830-1847) as member of a scientific group within the French army. This was the same expedition during which Alphonse Guichenot, a well- known herpetologist from the Paris Museum, collected da- ta for his herpetological monograph (Guichenot 1850). The amphibians and reptiles collected by Wagner were lat- er identified by Hermann Schlegel (in M. Wagner 1841), a famous herpetologist of the time who was then the as- sistant of Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Director of the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historic [today Naturalis] in Leiden. As a result of Schlegel's involvement many Al- gerian specimens are now part of the Leiden collection. However, Wagner also donated material from Algeria to the Gottingen collection, as he studied geology and ge- ography at this university after his return from Algeria (see P. Wagner 2008). The most important herpetological re- sults of this journey were a series of specimens of the then poorly-known, Trogonophis wiegmanni (Fig. 3) and the description of Bufo mauritanicus by Schlegel (in M. Wag- ner 1841). 2 Expedition: Caucasia (1842-44) During this expedition Wagner collected material mainly in the Caucasus region east of the Black Sea, today in the modern countries of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, northwestern Iran, southern Russia, Ukraine (Crimean Peninsula) and Turkey. Like the material from Algeria, parts of Wagner's Caucasian collection were also exam- ined by specialists. The amphibians and reptiles were iden- tified by Arnold Adolph Berthold (see below, and M. Wag- ner 1850). Moritz Wagner donated his collected material to the Zoological Museum of the University of Gottingen, but also to the Institute of Physiology at the same univer- sity, where his
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