Pieter Nicolaas van Kampen

Pieter Nicolaas van Kampen (30 June 1878, Amsterdam – 3 July 1937, Leiden) was a Dutch zoologist.

In 1904 he received his PhD from the University of Amsterdam, where he was a student and assistant to Max Carl Wilhelm Weber.

From 1905 to 1911 he was based in the Dutch East Indies, during which time, he was assigned to the Aru Islands (1907) and participated in an expedition to Netherlands New Guinea (1910).

[1] He is the taxonomic author of the frog genera Choerophryne,[2] Nesobia (junior homonym),[3] and Oxydactyla,[4] as well as of numerous amphibian species.

[5] With Hilbrand Boschma, he described a number of species within the barnacle genus Sacculina.