Peter Jäger

Peter Jäger is a German arachnologist, and current Head of Arachnology at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt, Germany.[1]

He named the spider Heteropoda davidbowie in honour of the singer David Bowie.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Arachnology Staff". Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
  2. ↑ Jäger, P. (2008). "Revision of the huntsman spider genus Heteropoda Latreille 1804: species with exceptional male palpal conformations from southeast Asia and Australia (Arachnida, Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae)". Senckenbergiana Biologica. 88: 239–310.


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