{{Short description|German herpetologist}} '''Harald Meier''' (1922 – 2007)<ref name="EDA">Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2013). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians''. Exeter, England: Pelagic Publishing Ltd. xiii + 262 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-907807-41-1}}. (Harald Meier, p. 89).</ref> was a German herpetologist.<ref name="EDR">Beolens, 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}}. (Harald Meier, p. 115; Meier, p. 175).</ref>
==Taxa described by Meier== Meier described several new taxa of geckos, including ''Phelsuma pusilla hallmanni'' and ''Phelsuma borbonica mater'', subspecies of geckos.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://zfmk.de/BZB/1980/1980%20Meier%20H.%20p323%20orginal.pdf |title=''Zur Taxonomie und Ökologie der Gattung ''Phelsuma'' (Reptilia: Sauria: Gekkonidae) auf den Komoren, mit Beschreibung einer neuen Art '') |year=1980 |author=Meier, Harald |journal=Bonner zoologische Beiträge |volume=31 |issue=3–4 |pages=323–332}} (in German).</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=''Beobachtungen an'' Phelsuma standingi |author=Meier, Harald |journal=Salamandra |year=1977 |volume=13 |pages=1–12}} (in German).</ref>
==Taxa named in honor of Meier== Meier is commemorated in the scientific names of three taxa: *''Mantella haraldmeieri'', a frog<ref name="EDA"/> *''Geoscincus haraldmeieri'', a lizard<ref name="EDR"/> *''Zonosaurus haraldmeieri'', a lizard<ref name="EDR"/>
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