John Blackwall (20 January 1790 – 11 May 1881) was an English naturalist with a particular interest in spiders. Blackwall was born in Manchester on 20...
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(Scytodidae) is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by John Blackwall in 1864. It contains over 250 species in five genera, of which Scytodes...
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The Blackwall Tunnel is a pair of road tunnels underneath the River Thames in east London, England, linking the London Borough of Tower Hamlets with the...
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Blackwall is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Anthony Blackwall (1672–1730), English clergyman John Blackwall (1790–1881), English naturalist...
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the first precise observations were published by the arachnologist John Blackwall in 1827. Several studies have since made it possible to analyze this...
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Hogna ingens (category Taxa named by John Blackwall)
painful and venomous bite to humans. Hogna ingens was first described by John Blackwall in 1857 as Lycosa ingens. In 2016 a captive breeding programme was set...
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Coelotes is a genus of funnel weavers first described by John Blackwall in 1841. A large number of species are found throughout Europe and Asia. As of...
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Commercial Railway, the London and Blackwall Railway (L&BR) in east London, England, ran from Minories to Blackwall via Stepney, with a branch line to...
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Blackwall is an area of Poplar, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, East London. The neighbourhood includes Leamouth and the Coldharbour conservation...
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different species were described later, including Tegenaria saeva by John Blackwall in 1844, Tegenaria duellica by Eugène Simon in 1875 and Tegenaria gigantea...
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spiders known to him, rather than "Mygalidae" (as used, for example, by John Blackwall). Thorell later split the family into a number of genera, including...
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Blackwall Yard is a small body of water that used to be a shipyard on the River Thames in Blackwall, engaged in ship building and later ship repairs for...
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Liocranidae. It is found in the Palearctic realm and was first described by John Blackwall in 1833. The distinctive egg sacs are known colloquially as 'fairy lamps'...
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Greenwich Peninsula (redirect from Blackwall Peninsula)
northernmost point on the riverside is known as Blackwall Point, and this may have led to the name Blackwall Peninsula sometimes being used in the late 20th...
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Steatoda fallax (category Taxa named by John Blackwall)
Theridion fallax by John Blackwall in 1865. World Spider Catalog (2018). "Steatoda fallax". Natural History Museum Bern. Blackwall (1865) Descriptions...
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Staffordshire, England. John obtained title to Clontarf Castle near Dublin in 1649 through a financial arrangement with John Blackwall who had been granted...
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Neriene (category Taxa named by John Blackwall)
Neriene is a genus of sheet weavers that was first described by John Blackwall in 1833. As of June 2019[update] it contains sixty species, found in Africa...
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Steatoda quinquenotata (category Taxa named by John Blackwall)
quinquenotatum by John Blackwall in 1865. World Spider Catalog (2018). "Steatoda quinquenotata". Natural History Museum Bern. Blackwall (1865) Descriptions...
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Walckenaeria (category Taxa named by John Blackwall)
Walckenaeria is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by John Blackwall in 1833. It is a senior synonym of Paragonatium, as well as Wideria...
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Tenuiphantes tenuis (category Taxa named by John Blackwall)
Tenuiphantes tenuis Blackwall, 1852 Synonyms Linyphia pusilla Blackwall, 1834 Linyphia tenuis Blackwall, 1852 Lepthyphantes tenuis (Blackwall, 1852) Lepthyphantes...
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London Fire Brigade, principally those of the Blue Watch, at the fictional Blackwall fire station. It began with the movie (pilot), broadcast on 7 December...
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biologist who studied Plasmodium Joseph Black (1728–1799), chemist John Blackwall (1790–1881), naturalist who studied spiders Thomas Blakiston (1832–1891)...
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than the side eyes. Erigone atra was first described by arachnologist John Blackwall in 1833. They belong to the Linyphiidae family, which are also known...
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species was first formally described in 1867 by the British naturalist John Blackwall from a collection of spiders from Meerut, Agra, and Delhi. They came...
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Goleba pallens (category Taxa named by John Blackwall)
Congo, Ghana, Kenya and South Africa. The female was first described by John Blackwall in 1877. Initially placed in the genus Lyssomanes, the genus was moved...
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Hersiliola versicolor (category Taxa named by John Blackwall)
family Hersiliidae that lives in Cape Verde. It was first described by John Blackwall in 1865 as Hersilia versicolor. The females have a total length of 3...
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Prize–winning researcher in the field of telomeres and the "telomerase" enzyme John Blackwall (1790–1881), British entomologist, author of A History of the Spiders...
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Pycnacantha (category Taxa named by John Blackwall)
Pycnacantha is a genus of African orb-weaver spiders first described by John Blackwall in 1865. As of April 2019[update] it contains four species: Pycnacantha...
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(1884–1934) Blackburn – Thomas Blackburn (1844–1912) entomology Blackwall – John Blackwall (1790–1881) Blainville – Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777–1850)...
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only in spring and summer. Drassodes cupreus was first described by John Blackwall in 1834, on the basis of specimens found near Manchester and Llanrwst...
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