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Dr Boonsong Lekagul (15 December 1907 – 9 February 1992) was a Thai medical doctor, biologist, ornithologist, herpetologist,〔Boelens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael. (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Boonsong", p. 31).〕 and conservationist. He was born at Songkhla in southern Thailand and received a medical degree from Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok in 1933. In 1935 he established Thailand’s first polyclinic in Bangkok. At first a keen hunter, he became a strong conservationist as he saw Thailand’s forests and wildlife becoming fragmented and destroyed. In 1952 he founded the Association for the Conservation of Wildlife. In the mid-1950s, he and the ACW lobbied for a bird sanctuary on the banks of the Chao Phraya River to protect the only known nesting site in Thailand of the openbill stork. In 1962 he founded the Bangkok Bird Club (the Bird Conservation Society of Thailand since 1993) and worked actively with the International Council for Bird Preservation and the World Wildlife Fund. == Eponymous species == Several species and subspecies are named after Boonsong Lekagul in honour of his work as naturalist and conservationist: * Boonsong’s roundleaf bat, ''Hipposideros lekaguli'' Thonglongya & Hill, 1974 * Boonsong’s variable squirrel, ''Callosciurus finlaysoni boonsongi'' Moore and Tate, 1965 * Hill blue flycatcher, ''Cyornis banyumas lekhakuni'' * Grey-eyed bulbul, ''Iole propinqua lekhakuni'' * Boonsong’s keelback, ''Opisthotropis boonsongi'' Taylor & Elbel, 1958 – a snake in the Colubridae family endemic to Thailand *''Cyrtodactylus lekaguli'' Grismer et al., 2012 – a species of bent-toed gecko endemic to Thailand〔The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.〕 * Lekagul’s horned frog, ''Xenophrys (Megophrys) lekaguli'' (Stuart, Chuaynkern, Chan-ard & Inger, 2006) – a megophryid frog from Eastern Thailand. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Boonsong Lekagul」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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