彼得·博达尔特1730—1795

博塔埃特的父亲是米德尔堡的法学家及诗人(1694–1760)。与其父同名的博塔埃特与1794年毕业于乌特勒支大学，并成为该校博物学的讲师。与1768至1775年间，曾与另一著名博物学家卡尔·林奈通信，并有14封信件留存至今。

根据布丰的巨作《自然通史》（Histoire Naturelle）而出版的《自然史图集》（Planches enluminées）中的物种名称，并没有使用到当时方兴未艾但后来被学界所接受的二名法去命名，于是博塔埃特根据这些物种的插图，于1783年出版了五十本以二名法命名当中物种的辨识手册。由于这是这些物种首次获得以二名法命名的学名，因此这些名称仍然沿用至今。

1785年，他出版了《动物列表》（Elenchus Animalium），以二名法为物种命名，当中包括大量哺乳类动物，如已灭绝的斑驴及欧洲野马等。

Pieter Boddaert (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈpitər ˈbɔdaːrt]; 1730 – 6 May 1795) was a Dutch physician and naturalist.

Early life, family and education

Boddaert was the son of a Middelburg jurist and poet by the same name (1694–1760). The younger Pieter obtained his M.D. at the University of Utrecht in 1764.

Career

He became a lecturer on natural history at his alma mater, University of Utrecht. Fourteen letters survive of his correspondence with Carl Linnaeus between 1768 and 1775. He was a friend of Albert Schlosser, whose cabinet of "curiosities" of natural history he described.

In 1783 he published 50 copies of an identification key of Edmé-Louis Daubenton's Planches enluminées, the colored plates of illustrations for the comte de Buffon's monumental Histoire Naturelle (published 1749–1789), assigning binomial scientific names to the plates. As many of these were the first Linnaean scientific names to be proposed, they remain in use. In 2017 the world list of birds maintained by Frank Gill and David Donsker on behalf of the International Ornithologists' Union included 190 taxa for which Boddaert is cited as the authority. Of these 112 are treated as species and 78 as subspecies. One species, the hoopoe starling, is now extinct.

In 1784 he published Elenchus Animalium, a "directory of animals" that included the first binomial names for a number of mammals, including the Quagga and the Tarpan.

Honors and awards

Boddaert is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of South American snake, Mastigodryas boddaerti.