Names behind Nature

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Across
  1. 2. 1948 ANHM recipient after whom a monitor, frog and seadragon are named
  2. 6. Genus of Proteaceae named after German baron and botanical patron
  3. 7. FNCV emblem named after Portuguese botanist José Correia da Serra
  4. 9. New common name for Victorian sugar glider
  5. 10. This dasyurid's species name alludes to a mistress of Henry II, due to colour of its fur.
  6. 12. Spider whose species name is after arachnologist von Keyserling (3 words)
  7. 13. Genus of Goodeniaceae named after English buccaneer
  8. 14. Late 19th / early 20th century zoologist whom a spoon worm and frog are named in honour of.
  9. 16. Austroagrion watsoni, Eastern ....
  10. 18. French surgeon and naturalist after whom a bettong and spider crab are named
  11. 22. Southern Brown Tree Frog Litoria ....
  12. 23. Surveyor General of NSW whom a cockatoo and hopping mouse are named.
  13. 25. French botanist and ornithologist after whom a plant genus, a skink, a frog and conger are named
  14. 28. Swedish naturalist who accompanied Cook and Banks. A petrel and geranium are named in his honour.
  15. 29. Australian bird of paradise named after Queen Victoria
  16. 31. Species name of Australian eucalypt, named after Italian monastery locality
  17. 33. German medic turned zoologist whom the threatened Tussock Skink is named in honour.
  18. 34. Genus of mistletoe named after Victorian Government Botanist
  19. 35. Suffix used in species name to denote origin or locality
  20. 36. Member of Estrildidae named after naturalist, and artist's, wife
  21. 37. Threatened cockatoo named after farmer, naturalist and ornithologist who first described this species in 1948
  22. 38. Lignum genus, after Alsatian bryologist Heinrich Gustav Mühlenbeck
  23. 39. Gippsland basin Palaeogene unit of sediments
  24. 40. Threatened sun-orchid once found on FNCV property, named after teacher and orchidologist who collected first specimen
Down
  1. 1. Entomologist whom a species of Leaf-cutter cuckoo bee is named.
  2. 3. Omeo Grevillea is named after this Victorian Government Botanist (initials and surname).
  3. 4. Proteaceae genus named after Endeavour naturalist
  4. 5. Swallowtail butterfly named after early Australian entomologist.
  5. 8. Northern Free-tailed Bat Ozimops ....
  6. 11. Mouse Spider Missulena ....
  7. 12. Largest extant carnivorous marsupial named after naturalist who first described the species in 1807.
  8. 15. Plant genus named after mythical goddess of hunting
  9. 17. Victoria's smallest carnivourous marsupial named after wife of Zoologist who described the species
  10. 19. Victorian legless lizard named after this Australian of the Year and noted naturalist
  11. 20. Beaked whale named after French anatomist who first described the species in 1823.
  12. 21. Author of Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria for whom a Victorian skink is named.
  13. 24. Common name of Varanus gouldii, Sand ....
  14. 26. Southern Grass Skink named in honour of this French naval officer and explorer.
  15. 27. Introduced marine worm named after Italian catholic priest, Sabella ....
  16. 30. Common name of Red-necked Wallaby in Tasmania
  17. 32. Victorian faunal emblem Gymnobelideus ....
  18. 36. Botanist and politician whom a bandicoot and many plants are named in honour.