Claudio Gilberto Froehlich (born 10 June 1927) is a Brazilian
zoologist
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[Neglected Science]
Claudio Gilberto Froehlich
Retrieved 19 February 2017.
Life
Froehlich was born in 1927 in São Paulo, Brazil. In 1951 he started his doctoral studies at the
Universidade de São Paulo
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together with
Eudóxia Maria de Oliveira Pinto, who later would become his wife. They both had
Ernst Marcus as their advisor. Marcus suggested that they should work on the taxonomy of
land planarian
Geoplanidae is a family of flatworms known commonly as land planarians or land flatworms.
These flatworms are mainly predators of other invertebrates, which they hunt, attack and capture using physical force and the adhesive and digestive proper ...
s since it was a poorly studied but highly diverse group in the region.
Later, in 1960, he received his post-doctoral degree from
Lund University
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[Entomologistas do Brasil]
Claudio Gilberto Froehlich
. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
Homages
The beetle genus ''
Claudiella''
Reichard & Vanin, 1976 and the stonefly genus ''
Claudioperla''
Illies, 1963 were named after him.
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1927 births
Brazilian zoologists
University of São Paulo faculty
Living people