Education
He studied at the universities of Kiel, Freiburg, and Berlin, receiving his doctorate at Kiel in 1895.
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Georg Duncker
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Career
Following graduation he lived and worked in Karlsruhe, Plymouth, Naples, Cold Spring Harbour (Long Island New York), and Würzburg. From 1901 he worked as a curator for a year at the Selangor State Museum in Kuala Lumpur, afterwards returning to Europe, where he spent another year in Naples. From 1928 onward, he worked as a curator and professor at the Museum.
In 1904 he described the Harlequin rasbora, Trigonostigma heteromorpha, a fish species that inhabits the forest streams of Southeast Asia.
Taxa with the specific epithet of dunckeri honor his name, such as:
Barbodes dunckeri (Ahl 1929), sometimes referred to as a bigspot barb. Phallostethus dunckeri (Regan 1913).
Solegnathus dunckeri (Whitley, 1927), sometimes referred to as Duncker"s pipehorse.
Membership
He was a member of the Hamburg Südsee-Expedition (1908-1910) during its first year in Oceania, of which, he collected specimens on behalf of the Hamburg Zoological Museum. In 1939 he became an honorary member of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists.
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Nationality
Germany