Eduard Rüppell's "Atlas of Rüppell's Travels in Northern Africa" (1826–30) includes an ornithological section by Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar describing around thirty new species, including Meyer's Parrot, Nubian Bustard, Goliath Heron, Streaked Scrub Warbler and Cretzschmar's Bunting.
The name commemorates the German physician and scientist Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar who founded the Senckenberg Natural History Museum.
During his absence Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar had used specimens sent back by Rüppell to produce the Atlas zu der Reise im nordlichen Afrika (Atlas of Travels in northern Africa) (1826).
Georg Philipp Telemann | Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle | Philipp Melanchthon | St. Jakob-Park | Philipp Marx | Karl Philipp von Wrede | Jakob Böhme | Philipp Franz von Siebold | Philipp | Philipp Meyer | Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar | Johann Jakob Engel | Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz | Philipp von Ferrary | Philipp Forchheimer | Philipp Emanuel von Fellenberg | Johann Philipp Reis | Johann Jakob Reiske | Jakob von Uexküll | Jakob Nielsen (usability consultant) | Jakob Nielsen | Jakob Heine | Jakob Altaras | Emil Jakob Schindler | Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach | Philipp Nicolai | Philipp Ludwig Wenzel von Sinzendorf | Philipp Lenard | Philipp Hainhofer | Philipp August Böckh |