Monday, July 6, 2020

Per Brinck


Per Simon Valdemar Brinck (1919 –2013) was a Swedish zoologist.
He began his career as a veterinarian but wrote a thesis on Plecoptera (stoneflies) and later became a worldwide authority on Gyrinidae (water beetles). He travelled extensively to Africa and Southeast Asia, among others co-publishing the fifteen-volume South African Animal Life between 1955 and 1973.
The genera Perbrinckia (a genus of freshwater crabs) has been named after him.

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