Karl Koopman (1 April 1920 – 22 September 1997) was an American zoologist with a special interest in bats. Subscription needed. He worked for many years in the Mammalogy Department of the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
Eponyms Mammal species named after him include Monticolomys koopmani, Rattus koopmani, and Sturnira koopmanhilli. There is also a subgenus of the bat genus Artibeus, named after him, Koopmania.
Also, a reptile species, Anolis koopmani, is named in his honor.Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Koopman, p. 145).
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