Vladimír Šilhavý was a Czech zoologist and physician. He studied the opiliones fauna of the region intensively while also taking an interest in a number of insect groups. He was also an artist who illustrated most of his taxonomic works on his own.
Doctors born in the 1910s 6
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Vladimír Šilhavý was a Czech zoologist and physician. He studied the opiliones fauna of the region intensively while also taking an interest in a number of insect groups. He was also an artist who illustrated most of his taxonomic works on his own. He described eight new genera and 20 new species of opiliones although several have since been sunk into synonymy.
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Doctors
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Doctor
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1913 to 1984 · aged 70
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