other reptiles, and fishes for example his monographs on the fishes of Africa. He was a member of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists and was elected its first honorary member in 1935. In 1937, Belgium conferred on him the Order of Leopold, the highest honor awarded to a civilian. His son, Edward George Boulenger (1888–1946), was also a zoologist and held the post of Director of the London Zoo Aquarium. Work on cave-dwelling fish In 1897, King Leopold II of Belgium started to recruit naturalists to help create the Congo museum. Boulenger was named chairman for this commission. His main discovery in 1921 was a strange fish from the Congo. It was eyeless and lacked pigmentation. He recognized it as new and unrelated to any extant epigean (eyed, surface) species of Africa. He wrote a brief paper describing this new species of cave fish, the first ever described from Africa. He called it Caecobarbus geertsii, from caeco = blind, barbus = barb, and geertsii, honoring a mysterious person, M. Geerts, who provided him with the specimen. Today, it is known as the Congo or African blind barb. Honours 1912: Member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium. Species Boulenger described hundreds of reptile taxa; 587 species described by him are still recognised today. He also described many amphibians and fishes. These 26 reptile species, recognised today, bear George Boulenger's name in the specific name, as boulengeri, boulengerianus, boulengerii, or georgeboulengeri : Agama boulengeri – Boulenger's agama Anolis boulengerianus – Tehuantepec anole Atractaspis boulengeri – Boulenger's burrowing asp Atractus boulengerii – Boulenger's centipede snake Brachymeles boulengeri – Boulenger's short-legged skink Chalcides boulengeri – Boulenger's sand skink Cnemaspis boulengerii – Con Dao rock gecko Compsophis boulengeri – Boulenger's forest snake Cylindrophis boulengeri – Timor pipesnake Dendragama boulengeri – Boulenger's tree agama Elapsoidea boulengeri – Boulenger's gartersnake Feylinia boulengeri – gabon legless skink Hebius boulengeri – Tai-Yong keelback Enyalius boulengeri – Brazilian fathead anole Epacrophis boulengeri – Lamu blindsnake Gonyosoma boulengeri – rhinoceros ratsnake Chersobius boulengeri – Karoo padloper Liolaemus boulengeri – Boulenger's tree lizard Morethia boulengeri – Boulenger's snake-eyed skink Nucras boulengeri – Ugandan savanna lizard Pareas boulengeri – Boulenger's slug snake Xenoxybelis boulengeri – southern sharp-nosed snake Rhampholeon boulengeri – Boulenger's pygmy chameleon Scolecoseps boulengeri – Moçambique legless skink Trachyboa boulengeri – northern eyelash boa Trachylepis boulengeri – Boulenger's skink In the above list,