Arthur Torrane Urquhart (

Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ...

, 27 October 1839 –

Karaka, New Zealand Karaka is a small rural area in the south of Auckland, New Zealand. Formerly part of Franklin District and under the authority of the Franklin District Council, it is now part of Auckland Council (under the Franklin Local Board) following the am ...

, 3 October 1916) was an

arachnologist Arachnology is the scientific study of arachnids, which comprise spiders and related invertebrates such as scorpions, pseudoscorpions, harvestmen, ticks, and mites. Those who study spiders and other arachnids are arachnologists. More narrowly ...

and

naturalist Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms, including animals, fungi, and plants, in their natural environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study. A person who studies natural history is cal ...

based in

New Zealand New Zealand () is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and List of islands of New Zealand, over 600 smaller islands. It is the List of isla ...

.Forster, Ray; Forster, Lyn (1999). ''Spiders Of New Zealand And Their World Wide Kin''. Otago, New Zealand: University of Otago Press. pp. 119–124. .

Biography

Urquhart was born in Switzerland in 1839. In 1856, he migrated to New Zealand and lived in a farm in Karaka. He produced eighteen taxonomic papers between 1882 and 1897.

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1839 births 1919 deaths New Zealand arachnologists {{zoologist-stub