Knud Christian Andersen (29 April 1867 in Frederiksberg – June 1918 in England) was a Danish zoologist. His research focused on bats.
Life and work
Towards the end of the 19th century, Andersen first worked as an ornithologist and ran field studies on the Faroe Islands. In 1901 Ferdinand I awarded him an appointment at the Zoological Museum of Sofia. Due to his frustration with the working conditions he gave up this position. 1904 he was hired by the British Museum to research bats in the Pacific, in South-East Asia and in Queensland. He was especially interested in the genus Flying Fox and Horseshoe bats, of which he described 15 new species. He published 13 scientific papers on the South-East Asian Horseshoe bats. His most famous work was his Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the Collection of the British Museum which counts among the most extensive work on flying foxes. In 1918 he mysteriously disappeared, his body has never been found.
Andersen was elected fellow of the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) in 1909.
Rhinolophus anderseni (1909 by Ángel Cabrera; no longer a valid taxon, the subspecies anderseni and aequalis are today considered synonyms of the species Rhinolophus arcuatus and Rhinolophus acuminatus). Dobsonia anderseni (1914 by Oldfield Thomas), Artibeus anderseni (1916 by Wilfred Hudson Osgood).
Meddelelser om faeroernes Fugle med saerligt Hensyn til Nolsø, efter skriftlige Oplysninger (with P.F. Petersen), 1894
Diomedea melanophrys, boende paa Færøerne, 1894 (English: Diomedea melanophrys in the Faröe Islands, 1895)
Sysselmand H.C. Müller’s haandskrevne optegnelser om Færøoerne Fugle (with Hans Christopher Müller), 1901
Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the collection of the British Museum, Volume 1, Megachiroptera, (2nd ed.). British Museum (Natural History), London. 1912.
On the determination of age in bats, 1917
Species described by Knud Andersen
Acerodon humilis K. Andersen 1909
Dobsonia praedatrix K. Andersen 1909
Dobsonia inermis K. Andersen 1909
Dobsonia exoleta K. Andersen 1909
Eonycteris major K. Andersen 1910
Pteropus cognatus K. Andersen 1908
Pteropus intermedius K. Andersen 1908
Pteropus lylei K. Andersen 1908
Pteropus speciosus K. Andersen 1908
Pteropus pelewensis K. Andersen 1908
Pteropus pilosus K. Andersen 1908
Pteropus yapensis K. Andersen 1908
Rousettus celebensis K. Andersen 1907
Macroglossus sobrinus K. Andersen 1911
Nyctimene minutus K. Andersen 1910
Nyctimene cyclotis K. Andersen 1910
Nyctimene certans K. Andersen 1912
Pteralopex anceps K. Andersen 1909
Rhinolophus nereis K. Andersen 1905
Rhinolophus monoceros K. Andersen 1905
Rhinolophus madurensis K. Andersen 1918
Rhinolophus simulator K. Andersen 1904
Rhinolophus virgo K. Andersen 1905
Rhinolophus thomasi K. Andersen 1905
Rhinolophus subrufus K. Andersen 1905
Rhinolophus sinicus K. Andersen 1905
Rhinolophus robinsoni K. Andersen 1918
Rhinolophus shortridgei K. Andersen 1918
Rhinolophus sedulus K. Andersen 1905
Rhinolophus stheno K. Andersen 1905
Rhinolophus inops K. Andersen 1905
Rhinolophus celebensis K. Andersen 1905
Rhinolophus cognatus K. Andersen 1906
Rhinolophus eloquens K. Andersen 1905
Rhinolophus darlingi K. Andersen 1905
Hipposideros nequam K. Andersen 1918
Hipposideros pomona K. Andersen 1918
Hipposideros beatus K. Andersen 1906
Hipposideros dinops K. Andersen 1905
Artibeus aztecus K. Andersen 1906
Artibeus hirsutus K. Andersen 1906
Nycteris aurita (K. Andersen 1912)
Nycteris gambiensis (K. Andersen 1912)
Nycteris major" (K. Andersen 1912)
Nycteris nana (K. Andersen 1912)
Nycteris tragata (K. Andersen 1912)
Nycteris woodi K. Andersen 1914
Mormopterus doriae K. Andersen 1907
Dobsonia crenulata K. Andersen 1909
