Organisation(s)
K (main), A, BM, BO, C, MO, P, PNH, SING, UC, US, W
Countries
Chinese region: Singapore, ChinaPacific region: Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) IslandsMalesian region: Indonesia, MalaysiaAustralasia: Papua New GuineaIndo-China: Thailand
Associate(s)
Abbott, William Louis (1860-1936) (co-collector)
Boden Kloss, C. (synonym)
Boden-Kloss, C. (synonym)
Ridley, Henry Nicholas (1855-1956) (co-collector)
Robinson, Herbert Christopher (1874-1929) (co-collector)
Wollaston, Alexander Frederick Richmond (1875-1930) (co-collector)
Biography
Known mainly as a zoologist and palaeontologist, Kloss was born in Warwickshire and had broad interests in natural history. He was employed in the Singapore Botanic Gardens (1903-1907) before he joined the Kuala Lumpur Museum (1908) as an assistant to H.C. Robinson and the two carried out extensive fieldwork in the region as co-collectors. Kloss was later appointed Director of the Raffles Museum in Singapore (1923-1932) and considered by many contemporaries to be the foremost systematist on birds and mammals of Southeast Asia. The genus Klossia Ridley in the Rubiaceae and many species were named in his honour.
References
Chaudhri, M.N., Vegter, H.I. & de Bary, H.A., Index Herb. Coll. I-L (1972): 363; Lanjouw, J. & Stafleu, F.A., Index Herb. Coll. A-D (1954): 81; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. N-R (1983): 770;
