Arthur Torrane Urquhart (1839–1919) was an
arachnologist
Arachnology is the scientific study of arachnids, which comprise spiders and related invertebrates such as scorpions, pseudoscorpions, and harvestmen. Those who study spiders and other arachnids are arachnologists. More narrowly, the study of sp ...
and
naturalist based in
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...
.
[Forster, Ray; Forster, Lyn (1999). ''Spiders Of New Zealand And Their World Wide Kin''. Otago, New Zealand: University of Otago Press. pp. 119–124. .]
Biography
Urquhart was born in
Switzerland
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in 1839. In 1856, he migrated to New Zealand and lived in a farm in
Karaka. He produced eighteen taxonomic papers between 1882 and 1897.
References
1839 births
1919 deaths
New Zealand arachnologists
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