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Lars Gabriel Andersson
Lars Gabriel Andersson (22 February 1868 – 13 February 1951) was a Swedish schoolteacher and herpetologist. He studied at Uppsala University and earned his PhD in 1909. During his long career he taught classes at several schools in and near Stockholm. In 1894–95 and from 1897 to 1902 he worked as an assistant in the vertebrate department at the Naturhistoriska riksmuseet in Stockholm. Taxa With zoologist Einar Lönnberg he described the following herpetological species: * ''Aipysurus tenuis'', 1913 * '' Atractaspis engdahli'', 1913 * ''Eulamprus brachyosoma'', 1915. * '' Eulamprus tympanum'', 1915 * '' Gastrotheca microdiscus'', (Andersson in Lönnberg and Andersson, 1910). * ''Glaphyromorphus mjobergi'', 1915 * ''Strophurus taeniatus'', 1913. On his own, he described: * '' Didynamipus sjostedti'', 1903 Works by Andersson that have been published in English * "Catalogue of Linnean type-specimens of snakes in the Royal Museum in Stockholm", 1899. * "Catalogue of Linnean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vagnhärad
Vagnhärad is a locality situated in Trosa Municipality, Södermanland County, Sweden with 3,324 inhabitants in 2010. Landslide On 23 May 1997 a landslide along the banks of the Trosaån, or Trosa River, damaged or destroyed 7 residential houses. Only one person was injured but a total of 29 houses were demolished and 96 people lost their homes in the effort of preventing future slides in the area. The total cost of the slide has been calculated as approximately 150 million SEK. During the summer of 2011 new cracks in the ground were found in the area around Brovägen, also alongside the river, threatening approximately 20 more buildings. Sports Vagnhärad has 2 sports halls, Hedebyhallen and Lånestahallen, which are primarily used for school sports and by the floorball team Trosa Edanö IBK. There is also a Swimming pool, Safiren, and a soccer facility, Häradsvallen used by the team Vagnhärads SK. Education Vagnhärad has one compulsory comprehensive school, Hede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Didynamipus Sjostedti
The four-digit toad or dwarf toad (''Didynamipus sjostedti'') is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae. It is found in Bioko (Equatorial Guinea), southwestern Cameroon, and southeastern Nigeria. It is the only species in the genus ''Didynamipus''. Etymology The specific name ''sjostedti'' honours Bror Yngve Sjöstedt, a Swedish entomologist and ornithologist who collected the type series. Description ''Didynamipus sjostedti'' are very small toads: males grow to and females to in snout–vent length. The snout is sharp in males but rounded in females; males also have a ridge on the top the snout that gives it an upturned appearance. The tympanum is absent. The hands and feet are reduced, with the two outer fingers and toes and the innermost toes present only as tubercles. No webbing is present. The dorsum is brown with lighter and darker mottling. Habitat and conservation ''Didynamipus sjostedti'' occur on forest edges and in clearings in moist forest at elevations o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swedish Zoologists
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Swedish Herpetologists
Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by the Swedish language * Swedish people or Swedes, persons with a Swedish ancestral or ethnic identity ** A national or citizen of Sweden, see demographics of Sweden ** Culture of Sweden * Swedish cuisine See also * * Swedish Church (other) * Swedish Institute (other) * Swedish invasion (other) * Swedish Open (other) Swedish Open is a tennis tournament. Swedish Open may also refer to: *Swedish Open (badminton) * Swedish Open (table tennis) *Swedish Open (squash) *Swedish Open (darts) The Swedish Open is a darts tournament established in 1969, held in Malm ... {{disambig Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1951 Deaths
Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United Kingdom announces abandonment of the Tanganyika groundnut scheme for the cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory, with the writing off of £36.5M debt. * January 15 – In a court in West Germany, Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment. * January 20 – Winter of Terror: Avalanches in the Alps kill 240 and bury 45,000 for a time, in Switzerland, Austria and Italy. * January 21 – Mount Lamington in Papua New Guinea erupts catastrophically, killing nearly 3,000 people and causing great devastation in Oro Province. * January 25 – Dutch author Anne de Vries releases the first volume of his children's novel '' Journey Through the Nigh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1868 Births
Events January–March * January 2 – British Expedition to Abyssinia: Robert Napier leads an expedition to free captive British officials and missionaries. * January 3 – The 15-year-old Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, declares the ''Meiji Restoration'', his own restoration to full power, under the influence of supporters from the Chōshū and Satsuma Domains, and against the supporters of the Tokugawa shogunate, triggering the Boshin War. * January 5 – Paraguayan War: Brazilian Army commander Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias enters Asunción, Paraguay's capital. Some days later he declares the war is over. Nevertheless, Francisco Solano López, Paraguay's president, prepares guerrillas to fight in the countryside. * January 7 – The Arkansas constitutional convention meets in Little Rock. * January 9 – Penal transportation from Britain to Australia ends, with arrival of the convict ship ''Hougoumont'' in Western Aus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Mjöberg
Eric Georg Mjöberg (6 August 1882 – 8 July 1938) was a Swedish zoologist and ethnographer who led the first Swedish scientific expeditions to Australia in the early 1900s, and worked in Indonesia. The plant ''Vaccinium mjoebergii'' J.J.Sm. was named after him, as were Mjoberg's toadlet (''Uperoleia mjobergii'' ),Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2013). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians''. Exeter, England: Pelagic Publishing Ltd. xiii + 262 pp. ("Mjöberg", p. 145). the grasshopper '' Goniaea mjoebergi'', the crab '' Uca mjoebergi'', Mjöberg's forest dragon ('' Gonocephalus mjobergi'' ),Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Mjöberg", pp. 180–181). the Atherton Tableland skink ('' Glaphyromorphus mjobergi'' ), Mjöberg's bush frog (''Philautus mjobergi'' ), '' Arthrorhabdus mjöbergi'' (a centipede which he collected), Mjöberg's dwarf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Museum Of Natural History
The American Museum of Natural History (abbreviated as AMNH) is a natural history museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. In Theodore Roosevelt Park, across the street from Central Park, the museum complex comprises 26 interconnected buildings housing 45 permanent exhibition halls, in addition to a planetarium and a library. The museum collections contain over 34 million specimens of plants, animals, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorites, human remains, and human cultural artifacts, as well as specialized collections for frozen tissue and genomic and astrophysical data, of which only a small fraction can be displayed at any given time. The museum occupies more than . AMNH has a full-time scientific staff of 225, sponsors over 120 special field expeditions each year, and averages about five million visits annually. The AMNH is a private 501(c)(3) organization. Its mission statement is: "To discover, interpret, and disseminate—through scientific research and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gastrotheca Microdiscus
''Gastrotheca microdiscus'' is a frog species in the frog family Hemiphractidae. It is endemic to southeastern Brazil between southern São Paulo and Santa Catarina states. Its natural habitats are undisturbed primary forests. It is a canopy species hiding in bromeliads. It is not considered threatened by the IUCN The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN; officially International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natu .... References microdiscus Endemic amphibians of Brazil Amphibians of Brazil Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Amphibians described in 1910 {{Hemiphractidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lidingö
Lidingö, also known in its definite form ''Lidingön'' and as ''Lidingölandet'', is an island in the inner Stockholm archipelago, northeast of Stockholm, Sweden. In 2010, the population of the Lidingö urban area on the island was 31,561. It is the seat of government of the Lidingö Municipality, Stockholm County. Lidingö's qualities have attracted affluent residents such as Björn Ulvaeus, Agnetha Fältskog, Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Benny Andersson of ABBA. Exclusive regions include the coastal region between Mölna and the east tip of the island, Gåshaga, as well as the east tip of the northern part of the horse shoe, called Elfvik. Notwithstanding the fact that many middle-class Swedes have moved to the island, (due to rental apartment construction projects), the inhabitants of the municipality remains the third wealthiest in Sweden after Danderyd and Täby. History Runic inscriptions Two runic inscriptions have been found on Lidingö. The latest, listed in Rundata as t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eulamprus Tympanum
''Eulamprus'' is a genus of lizards, commonly known as water skinks, in the subfamily Sphenomorphinae of the Family (biology), family Scincidae. The genus is native to Australia. Taxonomy The genus ''Eulamprus'' belongs to a clade in the ''Sphenomorphus'' group that contains other Genus, genera such as ''Ctenotus'' and ''Anomalopus''. The molecular phylogenetic studies of O'Connor and Moritz (2003) and Skinner et al. (2013) found that species assigned to ''Eulamprus'' comprised four independent lineages within the Australian ''Sphenomorphus'' group and did not form a clade. The genus ''Eulamprus'' was restricted to the water skinks, with other species assigned to ''Concinnia'' (including species formerly in the monotypic genera ''Gnypetoscincus'' and ''Nangura''), ''Silvascincus'' and ''Tumbunascincus''. Species The following five species are recognized as being valid. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atractaspis Engdahli
''Atractaspis engdahli'', also known commonly as Engdahl's burrowing asp, Engdahl's burrowing viper, and the mole viper, is a species of venomous snake in the family Atractaspididae. The species is endemic to Africa.Spawls S, Branch B (1995).''The Dangerous Snakes of Africa: Natural History, Species Directory, Venoms and Snakebite.'' Revised edition. Sanibel Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis. 192 pp. . Etymology The specific name, ''engdahli'', is in honor of Swedish missionary Theodor Engdahl, who collected the holotype. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Atractaspis engdahli'', p. 84). Geographic range ''A. engdahli'' is found in north-eastern Kenya and in Somalia. www.reptile-database.org. Habitat The preferred natural habitats of ''A. engdahli'' are savanna, shrubland, and grassland, at altitudes from sea level to . Behaviour ''A. engdahli'' is terrest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
