Amandus Heinrich Christian Zietz (13 June 1840 – 2 August 1921) was a zoologist and paleontologist born in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, and best known for his work at the South Australian Museum in Adelaide, after arriving in South Australia in 1883.

He and his son Frederick Robert Zietz, also a zoologist, worked on preserving bones from a diprotodon skeleton. Along with E. C. Stirling, also at the South Australian museum, he undertook the direction of the first major palaeontology excavation at Lake Callabonna, where a large series of Diprotodont skeletal material was collected. Zietz was responsible for identifying a hitherto unknown species of shark from Investigator Strait, which became known as Asymbolus vincenti, or Gulf catshark.

He is buried in West Terrace Cemetery in Adelaide.

Works

His publications include:

  • Stirling, E. C. & Zietz, A. H. C. (1896), , Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 20 (2): 191–210
  • Stirling, E. C. & Zietz, A. H. C. (1898), , Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 23 (1): 123–133
  • Zietz, A. H. C. (1899), , Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 23 (2): 208–210
  • Zietz, A. H. C. (1900), , Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 24 (2): 112
  • Zietz, A. H. C. (1902), , Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 26 (2): 265–267
  • Zietz, A. H. C. (1906), , Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 30: 325
  • Zietz, A. H. C. (1908), , Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 32: 287
  • Zietz, A. H. C. (1908), , Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 32: 287–299
  • Zietz, A. H. C. (1909), , Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 33: 263–269

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