Eric Mjöberg
Swedish zoologist
Died when: 55 years 336 days (671 months)Star Sign: Leo
Eric Georg Mjöberg (6 August 1882 – 8 July 1938) was a Swedish zoologist and ethnographer who led the first Swedish scientific expeditions to Australia in the early 1900s, and worked in Indonesia.
The plant Vaccinium mjoebergii J.J.Sm. was named after him, as were Mjoberg's toadlet (Uperoleia mjobergii ), the grasshopper Goniaea mjoebergi, the crab Uca mjoebergi, Mjöberg's forest dragon (Gonocephalus mjobergi ), the Atherton Tableland skink (Glaphyromorphus mjobergi ), Mjöberg's bush frog (Philautus mjobergi ), Arthrorhabdus mjöbergi (a centipede which he collected), Mjöberg's dwarf litter frog (Leptobrachella mjobergi ), and the water beetle Neobidessodes mjobergi.
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