Área de identidad
Tipo de entidad
Persona
Forma autorizada del nombre
Cambridge, Octavius Pickard
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Área de descripción
Fechas de existencia
1828-1917
Historia
Octavius Pickard-Cambridge was an English clergyman and zoologist. His main interest was in spiders, though he wrote also on birds and lepidoptera. He published extensively on spiders between 1859 and his death in 1917, including in the the journal of the Zoological Society of London. He became a world authority of spiders, describing a considerable number of new species including the Costa Rican redleg tarantula and the Sydney funnel-web spider