Barbara Baehr
{{short description|German arachnologist working in Australia}}
{{Infobox academic
|name = Barbara Baehr
|birth_name = Barbara C. Hoffmann
|birth_date = {{birth-date and age|25 February 1953}}
|birth_place = Pforzheim, Germany
|occupation = Research Scientist
|alma_mater = University of Tübingen
|discipline = Arachnology
|workplaces = Queensland Museum
}}
Barbara Baehr (born Hoffmann; 25 February 1953) is a German research scientist, entomologist, arachnologist, and spider taxonomist. She has described over 400 new spider species, mostly from Australia.{{Cite web|url=http://www.qm.qld.gov.au/Research/People/People/Profile/B/Barbara+Baehr#.W033adhKjVo|title=Dr Barbara Baehr|publisher=Queensland Museum|website=www.qm.qld.gov.au|access-date=2018-07-17}} She is originally from Pforzheim, Germany.{{Cite web|url=https://150-years-of-discovery-emerging-research.thinkable.org/users/barbarabaehr|title=Barbara Baehr|website=thinkable.org|access-date=2018-07-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180717183845/https://150-years-of-discovery-emerging-research.thinkable.org/users/barbarabaehr|archive-date=2018-07-17|url-status=dead}}
Education and work
Barbara Baehr obtained both her Staatsexamen and PhD in Zoology / Ecology at the University of Tübingen, Germany.
She worked as a scientific associate at the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology in Munich, Germany, from 1984 to 1998. During this time she also taught invertebrate zoology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) from 1996 to 1998, and conducted spider excursions for students.{{Cite web|url=http://www.australasian-arachnology.org/arachnologists/baehr/|title=AAS – Australasian Arachnologists – Dr Barbara Baehr|publisher=Australasian Arachnological Society|access-date=2018-07-17}}
File:Tapinesthis inermis male A.jpg (Araneae, Oonopidae), Arnaud Henrard, Rudy Jocqué, Barbara C. Baehr]]
Following several research visits to Australia (Western Australian Museum, Perth, 1994; Queensland Museum, Brisbane, and Australian Museum, Sydney, 1999), she took a research fellow position at the Queensland Museum in January 2000. Her work there focused on an interactive key to spider subfamilies, and was funded by the Australian Biological Resources Study.
Her subsequent research emphasized on the taxonomy of the ant spider family Zodariidae,{{Cite news|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-14/scientist-finds-ant-eating-spider-with-lock-and-key-genitals/8266434|title=Discovery of ant-eating spider with 'lock and key' genitals|date=2017-02-14|work=ABC News|location=Australia|access-date=2018-07-17}} the long-tailed bark spider family Hersiliidae and the long-spinnereted ground spider family Prodidomidae (since transferred to Gnaphosidae as the subfamily Prodidominae).{{Cite web|url=https://wsc.nmbe.ch/familydetail/81|title=NMBE - World Spider Catalog|website=wsc.nmbe.ch|access-date=2019-06-04}}{{clear|left}}
Publications
- {{cite journal | last1=Baehr | first1=Barbara C. | last2=Ubick | first2=Darrell | title=A Review of the Asian Goblin Spider GenusCamptoscaphiella(Araneae: Oonopidae) | journal=American Museum Novitates | publisher=American Museum of Natural History (BioOne sponsored) | issue=3697 | year=2010 | issn=0003-0082 | doi=10.1206/3697.2 | pages=1–65| s2cid=85133418 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/280178 }}
- {{cite journal | last1=Baehr | first1=Barbara C. | last2=Harvey | first2=Mark S. | last3=Smith | first3=Helen M. | title=The Goblin Spiders of the New Endemic Australian Genus Cavisternum (Araneae: Oonopidae) | journal=American Museum Novitates | publisher=American Museum of Natural History (BioOne sponsored) | issue=3684 | date=4 March 2010 | issn=0003-0082 | doi=10.1206/667.1 | pages=1–40| s2cid=83677917 | url=https://zenodo.org/record/5358760 }}
- {{cite journal | last1=BAEHR | first1=BARBARA C. | last2=WHYTE | first2=ROBERT | title=The Peacock Spiders (Araneae: Salticidae: Maratus) of the Queensland Museum, including six new species | journal=Zootaxa | publisher=Magnolia Press | volume=4154 | issue=5 | date=24 August 2016 | pages=501–525 | issn=1175-5334 | doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4154.5.1 | pmid=27615856 }}
- {{cite journal | last1=PUGH | first1=P.R. | last2=HADDOCK | first2=S.H.D. | title=A description of two new species of the genus Erenna (Siphonophora: Physonectae: Erennidae), with notes on recently collected specimens of other Erenna species | journal=Zootaxa | publisher=Magnolia Press | volume=4189 | issue=3 | date=10 November 2016 | issn=1175-5334 | doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4189.3.1 | page=401| pmid=27988743 | doi-access=free }}
- {{cite journal | last1=FRAMENAU | first1=VOLKER W. | last2=BAEHR | first2=BARBARA C. | title=Revision of the Australian Union-Jack wolf spiders, genus Tasmanicosa (Araneae, Lycosidae, Lycosinae) | journal=Zootaxa | publisher=Magnolia Press | volume=4213 | issue=1 | date=23 December 2016 | pages=zootaxa.4213.1.1 | issn=1175-5334 | doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4213.1.1 | pmid=28006790 }}
Filmography
- The Nature of Things (TV Series documentary). Herself – Queensland Museum
- Tarantula: Australia's King of Spiders (2005) ... Herself – Queensland Museum{{IMDb name|6585355|Barbara Baehr}}
References
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Category:German arachnologists
Category:20th-century German zoologists
Category:German women biologists