Albert Günther publishes the first study to recognise that the New Zealand tuatara is not a lizard.

Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther, also Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther, was a German-born British zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. Günther is ranked the second-most productive reptile taxonomist with more than 340 reptile species described and the third-most productive fish taxonomist with about 1600 fish species described.