Carl Wilhelm Samuel Aurivillius (31 August 1854 in the parish of Forsa, today part of

Hudiksvall Municipality Hudiksvall Municipality (''Hudiksvalls kommun'') is one of Sweden's 290 municipalities, situated in Gävleborg County, east central Sweden. Its seat is in the city Hudiksvall. The present municipality was formed in 1971 when the ''City of Hudiks ...

– 1899) was a Swedish planktologist and

carcinologist A carcinologist is a scientist who studies crustaceans or is otherwise involved in carcinology Carcinology is a branch of zoology that consists of the study of crustaceans, a group of arthropods that includes lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill, ...

. He was the brother of

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Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius (15 January 1843 – 20 July 1928) was a Swedish entomologist. Life Christopher Aurivillius was born at Forsa, Sweden. He was the director of the Natural History Museum in Stockholm and he specialised in Coleop ...

(1853-1928). Beginning in 1872 he studied

zoology Zoology ()The pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon. is the branch of biology that studies the Animal, animal kingdom, including the anatomy, structure, embryology, evolution, Biological clas ...

at the University of Uppsala, receiving his doctorate in 1883. Later on, he worked as a lecturer of zoology at the university. From 1893 he was a member of the ''Svenska Hydrografiska Kommissionen'' (Swedish Hydrographic Commission). He is remembered for his studies of

plankton Plankton are the diverse collection of organisms found in Hydrosphere, water (or atmosphere, air) that are unable to propel themselves against a Ocean current, current (or wind). The individual organisms constituting plankton are called plankt ...

found in the

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and in waters around

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. The genus ''Aurivillialepas'' (family

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) commemorates his name, as do the

barnacle A barnacle is a type of arthropod constituting the subclass Cirripedia in the subphylum Crustacea, and is hence related to crabs and lobsters. Barnacles are exclusively marine, and tend to live in shallow and tidal waters, typically in eros ...

species ''Oxynaspis aurivillii'' (

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, 1900) and ''Amigdoscalpellum aurivillii'' (

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, 1907).

Selected works

* ''Bidrag till kännedomen om krustaceer som lefva hos mollusker och tunikater : akademisk afhandling, som med tillstånd af vidtberömda filosofiska fakultetens i Upsala'', 1883 – Contributions to the knowledge of

crustacean Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean group ...

s that live in

mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...

s and

tunicate A tunicate is a marine invertebrate animal, a member of the subphylum Tunicata (). It is part of the Chordata, a phylum which includes all animals with dorsal nerve cords and notochords (including vertebrates). The subphylum was at one time ca ...

s. * ''Über Symbiose als Grund accessorischer Bildungen bei marinen Gastropodengehäusen'', 1891. * ''Die beziehungen der sinnesorgane Amphibischer dekapoden zur lebensweise und athmung : eine vergleichend biologisch-morphologische Studie'', 1893 – On the sensory organs of amphibious decapods in regards to behavior and respiration: a comparative bio-morphological study. * ''Studien über Cirripeden'', 1894 – Studies of

cirripede A barnacle is a type of arthropod constituting the subclass (taxonomy), subclass Cirripedia in the subphylum Crustacean, Crustacea, and is hence related to crabs and lobsters. Barnacles are exclusively marine, and tend to live in shallow and tid ...

s. * ''Das plankton des baltischen Meeres'', 1896 – Plankton of the

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. * ''Vergleichende thiergeographische Untersuchungen über die Plankton-fauna des Skageraks in den Jahren 1893-1897'', (1898) – Comparative zoogeographical studies of plankton fauna from Skagerrak in the years 1893 to 1897. * ''Animalisches Plankton aus dem Meere zwischen Jan Mayen, Spitzbergen, K. Karls Land und der Nordkuste Norwegens'', 1899 – Zoological plankton from the sea between

Jan Mayen Jan Mayen () is a Norwegian volcanic island in the Arctic Ocean with no permanent population. It is long (southwest-northeast) and in area, partly covered by glaciers (an area of around the Beerenberg volcano). It has two parts: larger nort ...

Spitzbergen Svalbard ( , ), also known as Spitsbergen, or Spitzbergen, is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. North of mainland Europe, it is about midway between the northern coast of Norway and the North Pole. The islands of the group range ...

Kong Karls Land Kong Karls Land or King Charles Land is an island group in the Svalbard archipelago, in the Arctic Ocean. The island group covers an area of and is made up of the islands of Kongsøya, Svenskøya, Abel Island, Helgoland Island, and Tirpitzøya. ...

and the north coast of

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published works

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Aurivillius, Carl Wilhelm Samuel 1854 births 1899 deaths Uppsala University alumni Academic staff of Uppsala University 19th-century Swedish zoologists Swedish carcinologists Planktologists People from Hudiksvall Municipality