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{{short description|Swedish zoologist}}

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'''Carl Jakob Sundevall''' (22 October 1801 in [[Högestad]] – 2 February 1875) was a [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[zoologist]].
Sundevall studied at [[Lund University]], where he received a Ph.D. in 1823. After traveling to East Asia, he studied medicine, graduating as a Doctor of Medicine in 1830.

He was employed at the [[Swedish Museum of Natural History]], [[Stockholm]], from 1833, and was professor and keeper of the [[vertebrate]] section from 1839 to 1871. He wrote ''Svenska Foglarna'' (1856–87), which described 238 species of birds observed in Sweden. He classified a number of birds collected in southern Africa by [[Johan August Wahlberg]]. In 1835, he developed a [[phylogeny]] for the birds based on the muscles of the hip and leg that contributed to later work by [[Thomas Huxley]].  He then went on to examine the arrangement of the deep [[plantar]] [[tendon]]s in the bird's foot. This latter information is still used by avian taxonomists. Sundevall was also an [[entomologist]] and [[arachnologist]], for which (for the latter field) in 1833 he published an early catalog ''Conspectus Arachnidum''. Much later in 1862, he wrote a monograph proposing a universal [[Phonetic transcription|phonetic alphabet]], ''Om phonetiska bokstäver''.

==Legacy==
Sundevall is commemorated in the scientific names of four species of reptiles: ''[[Elapsoidea sundevallii]], [[Leptotyphlops sundewalli]], [[Mochlus sundevallii]]'', and ''[[Prosymna (snake)|Prosymna sundevalli]]''.<ref>[[species:Bo Beolens|Beolens, Bo]]; [[species:Michael Watkins|Watkins, Michael]]; [[species:Michael Grayson|Grayson, Michael]] (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. ("Sundevall", p. 258).</ref> Also the rodent, [[Sundevall's jird]] (''Meriones crassus''), is named after him.

==References==
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==Sources==
*Anonymous (1875). [Sundevall, C. J.] ''Journal of Ornithology'' '''23''': 214–215.   
*Anonymous (1875). [Sundevall, C. J.]  ''Journal of Zoology'' '''4''': 61.   
*[[Johan Erhard Areschoug|Areschoug, J. E.]] (1879).  ''Minnesteckning öfver C. J. Sundevall''. Stockholm.      
*[[Pierre Bonnet (naturalist)|Bonnet, P.]] (1945). ''Bibliographia Araneorum''. Toulouse.

==External links==
*[https://archive.org/stream/ibis53brit#page/523/mode/1up  Ibis: Obituary of Carl Jakob Sundevall]

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[[Category:19th-century Swedish zoologists]]
[[Category:Members of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala]]
[[Category:People from Ystad Municipality]]
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