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New Zealand arachnologist

Arthur Torrane Urquhart (1839–1919) was an arachnologist and naturalist based in New Zealand.

Biography

Urquhart was born in Switzerland 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

  1. ^ Forster, Ray; Forster, Lyn (1999). Spiders Of New Zealand And Their World Wide Kin. Otago, New Zealand: University of Otago Press. pp. 119–124. ISBN 1 877372 13 7.
  2. Framenau, Volker W. (2019-04-16). "Generic and family transfers, and numina dubia for orb-weaving spiders (Araneae, Araneidae) in the Australasian, Oriental and Pacific regions". Evolutionary Systematics. 3: 1–27. doi:10.3897/evolsyst.3.33454. ISSN 2535-0730.


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