Species Sebaea filiformis
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Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Sebaea:
For Albertus Seba (1665–1736), Dutch pharmacist, zoologist and naturalist. In 1700, he opened an ‘apothecary shop’ in Amsterdam and collected exotic plants and animal products from sailors and ship surgeons from which he could make ‘medicines’. In 1716, he sold his first collection (as well as the Dutch botanist Frederik Ruysch’s collection) to the Russian Tsar, Peter the Great, on his visit to the Netherlands. Seba immediately set about building an even larger collection. In 1734, he published his magnificently illustrated four-volume Thesaurus (1734, 1735), with 446 plates (2 volumes published posthumously), which displays marine animals, insects and reptiles. Linnaeus must have seen this collection when he visited Seba twice in 1735. Seba became a Fellow of Royal Society in 1728.
Etymology of filiformis:
From the Latin fili / filum meaning ‘thread’; and the Latin formis / formis meaning ‘in the form of’.
Scientific name:
Unknown
Synonym of:
Unknown
Long etymology:
Protologue:
Bull. Herb. Boissier ii 1: 412 (1895)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1895
Observations of Taxon
Sebaea filiformis
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Collection: