Publications
Spix was honoured and knighted by the king of Bavaria. He worked hard on his zoological materials and prepared a description of the journey together with Martius. This description was printed in three volumes in 1823, 1828 and 1831, translated into English and Portuguese, which are still of great importance. Spix died during the preparation of the second volume, but Martius finished its publication using the notes of Spix and himself. He described and named many birds, apes, bats and reptiles. Altogether he has described some 500 to 600 species and subspecies. Furthermore several species are named after him. Among Spix most renown discoveries is the species Spix's Macaw, named after the explorer. He died on 13 of May 1826 in Munich possibly from a tropical disease such as yaws or Chagas.
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