Arthur Torrane Urquhart (1839–1919) was an arachnologist and naturalist based in New Zealand.[1][2]
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.[1]
References
- ^ a b Forster, Ray; Forster, Lyn (1999). Spiders Of New Zealand And Their World Wide Kin. Otago, New Zealand: University of Otago Press. pp. 119–124. ISBN 1 877372 13 7.
- ^ Framenau, Volker W. (2019-04-16). "Generic and family transfers, and numina dubia for orb-weaving spiders (Araneae, Araneidae) in the Australasian, Oriental and Pacific regions". Evolutionary Systematics. 3: 1–27. doi:10.3897/evolsyst.3.33454. ISSN 2535-0730.
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