Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão

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Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão

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Zoology

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Why Is Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão was a Brazilian zoologist who is considered the founder of Arachnology in South America, publishing 198 papers on the taxonomy of Arachnida. He was also involved with education, writing high-school textbooks, and contributed to biogeography, with essays on the distribution of Arachnida in the South American continent.

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