Peter Wilhelm Lund, Danish-born
Brazilian naturalist and archaeologist (Copenhagen 14 June 1801 – Lagoa Santa,
Minas Gerais State 25 May 1880) First cousin of famous philosopher
Soren Kierkergaard Performed the first correct description of Decapoda crustacean heart (1825) Described plant species Eupatorium rufescens 1836
First to report the existence of
sambaquis in coasts and rupestrian inscriptions in caves of Brazil Discovered Lagoa Santa Man (1843) DESCRIBED ANIMALIA TAXA Hymenoptera Genera (1831) Ancylognathus Condylodon Crematogaster Dolicherus Dolichoderus Pseudomyrmex Valid Fossil Mammalia Genera Leptotherium 1838 Ocnotherium 1842 Protopithecus 1838 Smilodon 1842 Species 32 Valid Living Mammalia Genera Phyllomys 1839 Speothos 1839 Species Calomys expulsus 1841 Carterodon sulcidens 1841 Didelphis albiventris 1840 Lycalopex vetulus 1842 Marmosops incanus 1840 Necromys lasiurus 1840 Oryzomys laticeps 1840 Phyllomys brasiliensis 1839 Rhipidomys masacalis 1840 Speothos venaticus 1839 Thrichomys apereoides 1839 Subspecies Cabassous unicinctus squamicaudis 1845 Speothos venaticus venaticus 1839 Trinomys setosus elegans 1841 Thrichomys apereoides apereoides
1839 HONORS Lundia A. DC 1838 (Bignoniaceae) Lundiella Carvalho 1951 (Hemiptera) Lundomys Voss & Carleton 1993 (Mammalia) |
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