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Brazilian zoologist and academic

Claudio Gilberto Froehlich
Born Claudio Gilberto Froehlich(1927-06-10)10 June 1927São Paulo, Brazil
Died 27 November 2023(2023-11-27) (aged 96)Ribeirão Preto, Brazil[1]
Scientific career
Fields Zoology, Helminthology, Entomology
Institutions Universidade de São Paulo
Doctoral advisor Ernst Marcus
Author abbrev. (zoology) Froehlich C. G. Froehlich

Claudio Gilberto Froehlich (10 June 1927 – 27 November 2023) was a Brazilian zoologist.[2]

Froehlich was born in 1927 in São Paulo, Brazil. In 1951 he started his doctoral studies at the Universidade de São Paulo together with Eudóxia Maria de Oliveira Pinto, who later would become his wife. They both had Ernst Marcus as their advisor. Marcus suggested that they should work on the taxonomy of land planarians since it was a poorly studied but highly diverse group in the region.[3] Later, in 1960, he received his post-doctoral degree from Lund University.

After his first academic years studying land planarians, Froehlich started to work with freshwater invertebrates, especially stoneflies.[4]

The beetle genus Claudiella Reichard & Vanin, 1976 and the stonefly genus Claudioperla Illies, 1963 were named after him.[2]

  1. ^ Revadam, Rafael (28 November 2023). "Sócio da SBPC desde 1949, Claudio Gilberto Froehlich colaborou com o desenvolvimento dos estudos em Zoologia no Brasil". Notícias da SBPC. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
  2. ^ a b Neglected Science. Claudio Gilberto Froehlich. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
  3. ^ Carbayo, F. (2013). "Vida de Zoólogo: Eudóxia Maria Froehlich". Informativo da Sociedade Brasileira de Zoologia. 106: 7–10.
  4. ^ Entomologistas do Brasil. Claudio Gilberto Froehlich Archived 2018-12-22 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 19 February 2017.