there, researching, exploring and sending many specimens and letters to his scientific correspondents in Lisbon. He also helped medically in the local hospital and was much appreciated by the population as a dedicated and humane care-giving person. Little is known in the manner of documentation about this period of Anchieta's life, because most of the museum specimens disappeared, as well as his many letters to Bocage, in a catastrophic fire in the museum, in 1978. Anchieta died while returning from a zoological expedition to Caconda, in 1897, at 66 years of age, probably of the chronic consequences of malaria, which he and his wife caught, and which had severely undermined his health for many years. In all, according to Bocage, Anchieta's zoological output was truly prolific. He was responsible for identifying 25 new species of mammals, 46 birds, and 46 amphibians and reptiles. He didn't care much for writing scientific papers, though, but left this to his correspondents in Lisbon. Many of the species of birds, amphibians, lizards, snakes, fishes and mammals collected by him were unknown and thus were named for Anchieta with the species designation anchietae. Some of them were: Anchieta's sunbird (Anthreptes anchietae), a bird Anchieta's barbet (Stactolaema anchietae), a bird Anchieta's tchagra (Tchagra anchietae), a bird Anchieta's ridged frog (Ptychadena anchietae) Anchieta's dune lizard (Meroles anchietae) Anchieta's frog (Hylambates anchietae) Anchieta's tree frog (Leptopelis anchietae) Anchieta's chameleon (Chamaeleo anchietae), a lizard Anchieta's cobra (Naja anchietae), a venomous snake Anchieta's dwarf python (Python anchietae), a non-venomous snake Anchieta's pipistrelle (Pipistrellus anchietai), a bat Anchieta's elephantfish (Mormyrus anchietae) Anchieta's antelope (Cephalophus anchietae) Anchieta's serpentiform skink (Eumecia anchietae), a lizard Anchieta's spade-snouted worm lizard (Monopeltis anchietae), an amphsbaenian Anchieta's agama (Agama anchietae), a lizard See also José de Anchieta (Brazilian Jesuit priest, although also a naturalist, was no kin of this one) References External links Guedes, ME: José de Anchieta, o Feiticeiro (In Portuguese). José de Anchieta, Explorer of Angola. Species discovered by Anchieta and described by J.V. Barboza du Bocage. Barboza du Bocage, JV: José d'Anchieta. Eulogy. Jornal das Sciencias Mathematicas, Physicas e Naturaes. Academia Real de Sciencias de Lisboa. 5(18), December 1897 Article fac-simile (In Portuguese). 1832 births 1897 deaths People from Lisbon Portuguese zoologists Portuguese explorers Explorers of Africa 19th-century explorers 19th-century Portuguese people University of Coimbra alumni