Thomas William Henric Clarke

Thomas William Henric Clarke, born in Campbell Town, Tasmania in 1860, and deceased in Hobart in 1945, he was a philanthropist, breeder sheep Merino and Hunting Hunter autralian.

Biography

At 22 years he began to hunt. According to his words, he came to bring together the second largest private trophy hunting trophy in the world. His collection included specimens of most Africans and Rocky Mountains from the United States, except elephants and giraffes.

He claimed to be the first white man who entered Somaliland. He went on to hit the zoology because, in his collection, a species of gazelle was hunted in northern Somalia, which he captured in 1890 and he described for the first time. This animal is the species-type, and unique, of genus Ammodorcas, described by zoologist British Oldfield Thomas in 1891,[1][2] who baptized the species, in his honor, such as Ammodorcas clarkei, or Clarke's gazelle.

References

  1. ↑ Thomas, O. (1 June 1891). "On some antelopes collected in Somali-land by Mr. T. W. H. Clarke". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London: 206–212.
  2. ↑ Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.

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