Jean-Georges Baer (12 February 1902N.N.: "Professeur Jean-Georges Baer, 1902-75", ''Environmental Conservation'', vol. 2 (1975), pp. 177–178. ISSN 0376-8929. – 21 February 1975Stunkard, Horace W.: "In memoriam: Jean-Georges Baer (1902-1975)", ''The Journal of Parasitology 61(5)'' (Oct. 1975), pp. 960–962. ISSN 0022-3395.) was a

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parasitologist and environmentalist. Born in England, he studied in

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, and in

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, where he worked with

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. His book "Ecology of animal parasites" (1951) is considered a classic in the field.Aeschlimann, A.; Piekarski, G.: "Jean Georges Baer 1902–1975", ''Parasitology Research 46(4)'', Springer 1975, pp. 243–244. ISSN 0932-0113. Baer published more than 250 articles, among them fundamental work on

Temnocephalida The Temnocephalida are an order of turbellarian flatworms. Unlike most other turbellarians, all the species in this order are either commensal or parasitic. They can be found living on crustaceans, molluscs, and, in some species, even turtle ...

(a kind of

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parasite) and on

tapeworm Eucestoda, commonly referred to as tapeworms, is the larger of the two subclasses of flatworms in the class Cestoda (the other subclass is Cestodaria). Larvae have six posterior hooks on the scolex (head), in contrast to the ten-hooked Cestodar ...

s.N.N.:
Baer, Jean Georges
'. URL retrieved 2011-01-24. Baer was a member of several scientific societies, vice president of the International Union of Biological Societies, and from 1958 to 1963 president of the

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(IUCN).Hesselink, Frits; Čeřovský, Jan:
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Baer's wood mouse Baer's hylomyscus or Baer's wood mouse (''Hylomyscus baeri'') is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, and Sierra Leone. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threaten ...

(''Hylomyscus baeri'') is named in his honour.

References

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