Reinhold Wilhelm Buchholz

Reinhold Wilhelm Buchholz (2 October 1837, Frankfurt an der Oder – 17 April 1876) was a German zoologist who made contributions in the fields of herpetology, carcinology and ichthyology.

[1] In 1869–70 he participated as a scientist on the Second German North Polar Expedition, aboard the schooner Hansa.

From 1872, with Anton Reichenow, he was stationed in western equatorial Africa, where he conducted zoological research in Kamerun, Gabon and Fernando Pó.

With naturalist Wilhelm Peters, he described the African toad genus Nectophryne as well as several herpetological species.

[3][4] While in West Africa, he also collected botanical specimens,[5] and in 1886, Adolf Engler named the plant genus Buchholzia (family Capparaceae) after him.