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3 unusual facts about Karl Moriz Diesing


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Karl Moriz Diesing (1800-1867), an Austrian naturalist and zoologist

Karl Moriz Diesing

Afterwards, he served as an assistant to botanist Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, later working as an intern at the Hof-Naturalien-Cabinet (from 1829).

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In his paper "Versuch einer monographie der Gattung Pentastoma" (Ann. Wien Mus. Naturges. 1836, 1–32), he was the first to establish the distinct nature of the Pentastomida, placing them in a new group which he called Acanthotheca.



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