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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).

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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