Carl Jakob Sundevall (1801 , Högestad - 1875) was a Swedish zoologist. Year 1801 ( MDCCCI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting on Tuesday Year 1875 ( MDCCCLXXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common "Sverige" redirects here For other uses see Sweden (disambiguation and Sverige (disambiguation. Zoology (from Greek ζῷον, zoon, "animal" + λόγος, " Logos " "knowledge" is the branch of
Sundevall studied at Lund University, where he became a Ph. Lund University (Lunds universitet located in Lund in southernmost Sweden is one of Sweden 's most prestigious Universities and one of Scandinavia D. in 1823. After traveling to East Asia, he studied medicine, graduating as Doctor of Medicine in 1830.
He was employed at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm from 1833, and was professor and keeper of the vertebrate section from 1839 to 1871. The Swedish Museum of Natural History (in Swedish Naturhistoriska riksmuseet, literally the National Museum of Natural History in Stockholm, is ('stɔkhɔlm is Sweden 's Capital and its largest City. It is the site of the national Swedish government, the parliament, and the Vertebrates are members of the Subphylum Vertebrata, Chordates with backbones or spinal columns The grouping sometimes includes He wrote Svenska Foglarna (1856-87) which described 238 species of birds observed in Sweden. He classified a number of birds collected in southern Africa by Johan August Wahlberg. Johan August Wahlberg ( 9 October 1810 Lagklarebäck, Sweden - 6 March 1856 Lake Ngami, Bechuanaland) was a In 1835, he developed a phylogeny for the birds based on the muscles of the hip and leg that contributed to later work by Thomas Huxley. Thomas Henry Huxley PC FRS (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895 was an English Biologist, known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy He then went on to examine the arrangement of the deep plantar tendons in the bird's foot. This latter information is still used by avian taxonomists. Sundevall was also an entomologist and arachnologist. Entomology (from Greek grc ἔντομος entomos, "that which is cut in pieces or engraved/segmented" hence "insect" and grc -λογία Arachnology (from Greek grc ἀράχνη arachnē, "spider" and grc -λογία -logia) is the scientific study of
References
- Anonym 1875 [Sundevall, C. J. ] Journ. Ornith. 23 214-215.
Anonym 1875 [Sundevall, C. J. ] J. Zool. 4 61
- Areschoug, J. E. 1879 Minnesteckning öfver C. J. Sundevall. Stockholm.
- Bonnet, P. 1945 Bibliographia Araneorum. Toulouse
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