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    Anders Sparrman (27 February 1748 – 9 August 1820) was a Swedish naturalist, abolitionist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. Born in Tensta, Uppland, Sparrman...
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    Weka (category Taxa named by Anders Sparrman)
    legs and reduced wings. The common name, "weka", is a Māori word. The species was named Rallus australis by Anders Erikson Sparrman in 1789. Sparrman published...
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    White tern (category Taxa named by Anders Sparrman)
    white tern was first formally described by the Swedish naturalist Anders Sparrman in 1786 under the binomial name Sterna alba. The genus Gygis was introduced...
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    woodland in South Africa and Madagascar. It is one of up to seven species in the genus Sparrmannia. The genus name is after Anders Sparrman. Growing to 3–6 m...
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    Black giant squirrel (category Taxa named by Anders Sparrman)
    Survival of Near Threatened Species Malayan Giant Squirrel (Ratufa bicolor Sparrman, 1778) in India". Mammal Study. 45 (4): 289–302. doi:10.3106/ms2020-0011...
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    Swedish Museum of Natural History (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
    collections of the academy during its earlier history was Anders Sparrman, a student of Carl Linnaeus and participant in the voyages of Captain James Cook. Another...
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    with James Cook; Anders Sparrman followed on the Resolution in 1772–75 bound for, among other places, Oceania and South America. Sparrman made many other...
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    the event, did not forget Woltemade; nor did the formers countryman, Anders Sparrman, when he wrote his famous book "A Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope"...
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    African buffalo (category Taxa named by Anders Sparrman)
    Prins, H. H. (2014). African buffalo Syncerus caffer (Sparrman, 1779). In Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour of Wild Cattle: Implications for Conservation...
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    Greater honeyguide (category Taxa named by Anders Sparrman)
    the area. Many sources say that this species also guides honey badgers. Sparrman noted in the 18th century that indigenous Africans reported this interaction...
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    Aardwolf (category Taxa named by Anders Sparrman)
    (1996). A functional analysis of scent marking and mating behaviour in the aardwolf Proteles cristatuss (Sparrman, 1783) (PhD). Pretoria: University of Pretoria...
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    2004-12-26. Retrieved 2010-05-17. Mary and John Gribbin (2008). pp. 58–59. Blunt, Wilfrid (2004). pp. 192–193. "Anders Sparrman". Archived from the original on...
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    Red-crowned parakeet (category Taxa named by Anders Sparrman)
    New Zealand) C. n. novaezelandiae (Sparrman, 1787) – North, Stewart and satellites, Chatham (east of South Island) and Auckland Island (south of South Island;...
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    north of Mossel Bay, by Anders Sparrman who also recorded that it was onomatopoeically "called by the colonists hagedash, and also hadelde." It was later...
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    Rifleman (bird) (category Taxa named by Anders Sparrman)
    Troglodytidae, nor the fairy-wrens of Australia. The rifleman was described by Anders Sparrman in 1787 based on a bird collected in Queen Charlotte Sound in the Marlborough...
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    White-fronted amazon (category Taxa named by Anders Sparrman)
    subspecies with slight differences in colour and size: White-fronted amazon (A. a. albifrons) — (Sparrman, 1788) — nominate, found from western Mexico...
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    described and illustrated in 1787 by the Swedish naturalist Anders Sparrman. He placed it with the flycatchers in the genus Muscicapa and coined the...
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    New Zealand bellbird (category Taxa named by Anders Sparrman)
    that the chorus was created by bellbirds. Johann Reinhold Forster and Anders Sparrman collected the first specimens in April 1773 during Cook's second...
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    Atlantic plain xenops (category Taxa named by Anders Sparrman)
    7 in) long and weighs about 10 to 13 g (0.35 to 0.46 oz). Its bill is wedge-shaped, fairly stubby, and slightly upturned. The sexes are alike and juveniles...
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    Lesser Antillean euphonia (category Taxa named by Anders Sparrman)
    subtropical or tropical dry forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, and heavily degraded former forest. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pam;...
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  • paved the way for the downfall of the theory of spontaneous generation Anders Sparrman (1748–1820), Swedish naturalist, author of A voyage to the Cape of...
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    Cape siskin (category Taxa named by Anders Sparrman)
    locally common but shy and unobtrusive siskin is found in the southwestern and southern Cape's rocky slopes, coastal cliffs and fynbos-covered mountains...
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    White-capped munia (category Taxa named by Anders Sparrman)
    munia (Lonchura ferruginosa) is a species of estrildid finch found in Java and Bali. It is found in marshes, swamps, fens, grasslands habitat. The status...
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    Spotted shag (category Taxa named by Anders Sparrman)
    famous James Cook. Swedish naturalist Anders Sparrman was Forster's assistant on this second voyage of James Cook, and he described the spotted shag in 1786...
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    Barred honeyeater (category Taxa named by Anders Sparrman)
    Genus: Glycifohia Species: G. undulata Binomial name Glycifohia undulata (Sparrman, 1787) Synonyms Gliciphila undulata Phylidonyris undulata Phylidonyris...
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    Belenois java (category Taxa named by Anders Sparrman)
    Wikispecies has information related to Belenois java. "Belenois java (Sparrman, 1768) - EOL". Archived from the original on 11 October 2009. Retrieved...
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    Anolis bimaculatus (category Taxa named by Anders Sparrman)
    islands, which comprise Saint Kitts, Nevis, and Sint Eustatius. Males can reach a length of 123 mm snout-to-vent, and their coloration varies somewhat based...
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    Vernal hanging parrot (category Taxa named by Anders Sparrman)
    subcontinent and some other areas of Southeast Asia. It undergoes local movements, driven mainly by the availability of the fruit, seeds, buds and blossoms...
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    and South Island species in 2012. The specific names of both species were based on mistakes; Turnagra capensis was so named because Anders Sparrman mixed...
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    Swedish naturalist Anders Sparrman to act as his assistant. Both the Forsters kept detailed diaries of everything they saw on the voyage, and made extensive...
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