Georg Jan

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Georg (also Giorgio or Georges) Jan (1791-1866) was an Italian taxonomist, and director of the Museum Natural History in Milan, Italy. He is credited with having described several new species of snakes, and is honored by having several species named after him, such as the Texas Night Snake, Hypsiglena torquata jani and the Mexican Pine Snake, Pituophis deppei jani. In the 1860s he began compiling what was to become Iconographie General des Ophidiens, an extensive collection of scientific papers relating to snakes, but he died before it was completed. The work was eventually finished and published in several parts by Ferdinand Sordelli.

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• Biographies of People Honored in the Herpetological Nomenclature North America