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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- 35 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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- 1777. Systema regni animalis per classes, ordines, genera, species, varietates : cvm synonymia et historia animalivm: Classis I. Mammalia. Impensis Weygandianis: Lipsiae. 636 pp. BHL Reference page.