Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben

Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben (1744–1777), German naturalist and veterinarian.

Son of Dorothea Christiane Erxleben, the first woman in Germany to become a qualified physician.

Taxon names authored

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• 30 taxon names authored by Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben

Eponyms

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• 0 eponyms of Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben

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• Cercopithecus erxlebenii Dallbet & Pucheran, 1856 [valid as Cercopithecus pogonias grayi Fraser, 1850]

Publications

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• Erxleben, J.C.P. 1777. Systema regni animalis per classes, ordines, genera, species, varietates : cvm synonymia et historia animalivm: Classis I. Mammalia. Lipsiae: Impensis Weygandianis. 636 pp. BHL Reference page.