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Kitti Thonglongya

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Thonglongya was born in Bangkok and graduated with a degree in biology from the Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok in 1953. He then worked as a zoologist in a museum set up by the National science society and in 1956 he moved to the Thai Conservation Society. In 1965 he became the curator at the
30: 85:, the smallest species of bat and the smallest mammal in the world, was found by him in 1973. He died suddenly from a massive heart attack, so the formal description was written by his British colleague, 188: 244: 89:, who named the species in honour of its discoverer. He went on to discover other new bat species, such as the extremely rare 239: 234: 117: 90: 78: 105: 229: 224: 184: 86: 165:
Schlitter, Duane A. (1975) Kitti Thonglongya, 1928–1974. Journal of Mammalogy 56(1):279–280
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In the field of ornithology Kitti Thonglongya's best known discovery was of the
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Edwards, John; Thonglongya, Kitti (1972) "Bats from Thailand and Cambodia"
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Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology.
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A handbook to the swallows and martins of the world
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Index

Thonglongya

Thai
Thai
ornithologist
mammalogist
Kitti's hog-nosed bat
John E. Hill
Salim Ali's fruit bat
Indian
white-eyed river martin
swallow
Sirindhorn Thepratanasuda
Thailand
Mekong wagtail


ISBN
0-7470-3202-5
Categories
1928 births
1974 deaths
Thai ornithologists
People from Bangkok
20th-century zoologists

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