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Karl Koopman

zoologist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ6371997 ↗
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Karl Koopman (1 April 1920 – 22 September 1997) was an American zoologist with a special interest in bats. He worked for many years in the Mammalogy Department of the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

Eponyms

Mammal species named after him include Monticolomys koopmani, Rattus koopmani, and Sturnira koopmanhilli. There is also a subgenus of the bat genus Artibeus, named after him, Koopmania.

Also, a reptile species, Anolis koopmani, is named in his honor.

References

Further reading

Ackerman, Diane (4 January 1998). "The Lives They Lived: Karl F. Koopman; Batman". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 November 2010.

Griffiths, Thomas A. (August 1998).

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