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Leiurus Haenggii
''Leiurus'' is a genus of scorpion of the family Buthidae. The most common species, ''L. quinquestriatus'', is also known under the common name Deathstalker. It is distributed widely across North Africa and the Middle East, including the western and southern Arabian Peninsula and southeastern Turkey. At least one species occurs in West Africa (northern Cameroon). Taxonomy The genus was introduced in 1828 by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, C.G. Ehrenberg (in Hemprich & Ehrenberg 1828), originally as a subgenus of the genus ''Androctonus''. It was finally elevated to genus rank by Max Vachon, M. Vachon in 1949. The genus was long considered to be monotypic, containing a single species, ''L. quinquestriatus'', but research since 2002 has shown that there are indeed several species. Diversity Currently twenty species are recognized within this genus. *''Leiurus abdullahbayrami'' Yagmur, Koc & Kunt, 2009 *''Leiurus aegyptiacus'' Lourenço & El-Hennawy, 2021 *''Leiurus arabicus'' Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (19 April 1795 – 27 June 1876) was a German Natural history, naturalist, zoologist, Botany, botanist, comparative anatomist, geologist, and microscopy, microscopist. He is considered to be one of the most famous and productive scientists of his time. Early collections The son of a judge, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg was born in Delitzsch, near Leipzig. He first studied theology at the University of Leipzig, then medicine and natural sciences in Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin and became a friend of the famous List of explorers, explorer Alexander von Humboldt. In 1818, he completed his doctoral dissertation on fungi, ''Sylvae mycologicae Berolinenses.'' In 1820–1825, on a scientific expedition to the Middle East with his friend Wilhelm Hemprich, he collected thousands of specimens of plants and animals. He investigated parts of Egypt, the Libyan Desert, the Nile, Nile valley and the northern coasts of the Red Sea, where he made a special ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
