Louise Schilthuis

Louise Schilthuis (16 December 1863, Groningen – 27 January 1951, The Hague),[1] also known as Lubbina Schilthuis, was a Dutch zoologist and a curator at the Zoology Museum at the University of Utrecht.

[2] She was active in the late 19th century and published at least two papers, both describing new species,[3] on the specimens collected in the Congo by M.A.

Greshof, a Dutch collector and trader,[4] on the amphibians in 1889 and on the fishes on 1891.

Boulenger named the mormyrid Marcusenius schilthuisiae after her.

[5] Among the taxa named by Schilthuis, she described the cichlid genus Lamprologus and its type species Lamprologus congoensis.