Konrad Thaler
{{Short description|Austrian arachnologist (1940–2005)}}
Konrad Thaler (born 19 December 1940 in Innsbruck, Austria – died 11 June 2005) was an Austrian arachnologist.
Peter J. Schwendinger, other Austrian arachnologist, studied with Konrad Thaler, in Innsbruck University.
Tributes
The specific epithet of the spider species Palaeoperenethis thaleri was designated by P. Selden and D. Penney in honor of the late Dr. Konrad Thaler,{{cite journal |last1=Selden |first1=P.A. |last2=Penney |first2=D. |year=2009 |title=A fossil spider (Araneae: Pisauridae) of Eocene age from Horsefly, British Columbia, Canada |journal=Contributions to Natural History |volume=12 |pages=1269–1282 |url=http://homepage.mac.com/paulselden/Sites/Website/Horsefly.pdf) }}{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} past president of the International Society of Arachnology.[http://www.arachnology.org/ International Society of Arachnology website]
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External links
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- [http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v34_n1/arac-034-01-0281.pdf Obituary]
- [http://www.museunacional.ufrj.br/mndi/Aracnologia/pdfliteratura/papers%20thaler.htm Thaler's papers]
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Category:Austrian arachnologists
Category:20th-century Austrian zoologists
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