Species Abildgaardia burchellii
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There aren’t any identifications of Abildgaardia burchellii.
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Etymology of Abildgaardia:
For Peder Christian Abildgaard (1740–1801), Danish zoologist and veterinarian. He dropped out of secondary school for financial reasons and worked in a pharmacy for five years where he learned chemistry. Thereafter, he studied medicine at the University of Copenhagen obtaining his doctorate in 1768. In 1773 he started his own veterinary college and became the director of the Royal Veterinary College at Christianshavn and through his work obtained the deserving title of ‘father of Danish veterinary science’. During his career he published many works on medicine and zoology with his main interest being natural history, mainly dealing with intestinal parasites, leeches and protozoans. He was the author of Historia Brevis Regii Instituti Veterinarii Hafniensis (1788), founder of The Natural History Society (1789) and was the first researcher to describe the mineral species Cryolite from specimens brought back from Greenland.
Etymology of burchellii:
Commemorating William John Burchell (1781-1863), a 19th-century English explorer, British naturalist, traveller, artist and author. He discovered and documented many species during his travels through Southern Africa. He landed in Cape Town in 1810 and undertook many smaller trips. From 1811-1815 he covered over 7000km. He returned to England with over 50 000 plant specimens and published two volumes entitled Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa in 1822 and 1824.
Scientific name:
Abildgaardia burchellii (Ficalho & Hiern) Lye
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Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Abildgaardia burchellii.