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Carl Alexander Clerck (1709 – 22 July 1765) was a Swedish entomologist and arachnologist . Clerck came from a family in the petty nobility and entered the University of Uppsala in 1726.
Carl Alexander Clerck, född sannolikt 1709 i Stockholm, död där 22 juli 1765, var en svensk entomolog.
- Presentation of The Spiders
- Impact and Importance of The Work
- Year 1757 Or 1758?
- Species
Clerck explained in the last (9th of the 2nd part) chapter of his work that in contrast to previous authors he used the term "spider" in the strict sense, for animals possessing eight eyes and separated prosoma and opisthosoma, and that his concept of this group of animals did not include Opiliones (because they had two eyes and a broadly joined pr...
Because of the exceptionally thorough treatment of the spider species, the scientific names proposed by Clerck (which were adopted by Carl Linnaeus in his Systema Naturae in 1758 with only minor modifications) had traditionally been recognized by arachnologists as binomial and available. In 1959 the ICZN Commission decided that Clerck's work should...
In the late 19th century, Clerck's 1757 work was commonly accepted as the first application of binomial nomenclature to spiders. In 1959 the ICZN Commission ruled that the date 1758 should be used for Clerck's names, this date 1758 was repeated to apply to Clerck's names in the 4th edition of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclaturein 1999...
Svenska Spindlarlists the following 67 species of spider; their current identities follow Platnick (2000–2010).
Oct 20, 2023 · Wikispecies. Name in native language. Carl Alexander Clerck. Date of birth. 1709. Stockholm City. Date of death. 22 July 1765.
Carl Alexander Clerck war ein schwedischer Entomologe und Arachnologe und durch sein 1757 erschienenes Werk Svenska Spindlar Mitbegründer der Zoologischen Nomenklatur.
Carl Alexander Clerck (1709–1765), Swedish entomologist and arachnologist.
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Carl Alexander Clerck (Stoccolma, 1709 [1] – Stoccolma, 22 luglio 1765) è stato un entomologo e aracnologo svedese
