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Ödön Tömösváry

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2-483: Ödön Tömösváry ( Edmund Tömösváry , October 12, 1852, in Magyaró – August 15, 1884, in Déva ) was Hungarian naturalist, myriapodologist and entomologist . In 1883 he made the seminal description of peculiar sensory organ of myriapods , known today as the temporal organ or organ of Tömösváry . He attended secondary school in Kolozsvár and university of Selmecbánya . Tömösváry completed his university studies in Budapest in 1881, and his doctoral thesis concerned

4-940: The anatomical structure of the respiratory organ of Scutigera coleoptrata . In his scientific career Tömösváry wrote 57 papers. When he arrived in the Lower Danube region to study the Columbatch fly ( Simuliidae ) he became sick with tuberculosis . Because of this continuing illness he wasn't able to work as a zoologist and in the last year of his life he worked as a teacher at Kassa . He died on August 15, 1884, in Déva. Tömösváry described 32 new myriapod species: 10 of Diplopoda , 19 of Chilopoda , 2 of Pauropoda , and one Symphyla species. He introduced two new genera, Edentistoma Tömösváry, 1882 = Anodontastoma Tömösváry, 1882 and Trachypauropus Tömösváry, 1882. Aluni%C8%99, Mure%C8%99 Aluniș ( Hungarian : Magyaró [mɒɡiɒroː] )

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