Claudio Gilberto Froehlich (10 June 1927 – 27 November 2023) was a Brazilian zoologist.[2]
Life
Froehlich was born in 1927 in São Paulo, Brazil. In 1951 he started his doctoral studies at the Universidade de São Paulo together with Eudóxia Maria de Oliveira Pinto, who later would become his wife. They both had Ernst Marcus as their advisor. Marcus suggested that they should work on the taxonomy of land planarians since it was a poorly studied but highly diverse group in the region.[3] Later, in 1960, he received his post-doctoral degree from Lund University.
After his first academic years studying land planarians, Froehlich started to work with freshwater invertebrates, especially stoneflies.[4]
Homages
The beetle genus Claudiella Reichard & Vanin, 1976 and the stonefly genus Claudioperla Illies, 1963 were named after him.[2]
Selected works
Froehlich, Claudio G. (1955). "Notas sobre geoplanas brasileiras". Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia. 12 (7): 198.
Froehlich, Claudio G. (1955). "Sobre morfologia e taxonomia das Geoplanidae". Zoologia, São Paulo. 19: 195–279.
Froehlich, Claudio G. (1956). "Turbellaria Terricola das regiões de Teresópolis e Ubatuba". Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia. 12 (16): 313–344.
Froehlich, Claudio G. (1956). "Planárias Terrestres do Paraná". Dusenia. 7 (4): 173–191.
Brinck, P.; Froehlich, Claudio G. (1960). "On The Stonefly Fauna Of Western Lule Lappmark, Swedish Lappland". Kungl. Fys. Sallsk., Lund Forhandl. 30 (1): 1–19.
Froehlich, Claudio (1969). "Caenis cuniana sp. n., a Parthenogenetic Mayfly". Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment. 6 (2): 103–108. doi:10.1080/01650526909360420. ISSN0165-0521.
Froehlich, Claudio G. (1969). "Studies on Brazilian Plecoptera 1. Some Gripopterygidae from the biological station at Paranapiacaba, state of Sao Paulo". Beiträge zur Neotropischen Fauna. 6 (1): 17–39. doi:10.1080/01650526909360412. ISSN0005-8130.
Froehlich, Claudio G. (2008). "Brazilian Plecoptera 2. Species of the serrana‐group of Kempnyia (Plecoptera)". Aquatic Insects. 6 (3): 137–147. doi:10.1080/01650428409361176. ISSN0165-0424.
Froehlich, Claudio G. (1988). "Brazilian Plecoptera 5. Old and new species of Kempnyia (Perlidae)". Aquatic Insects. 10 (3): 153–170. doi:10.1080/01650428809361324. ISSN0165-0424.
Froehlich, Claudio G. (1990). "Brazilian Plecoptera 6. Gripopteryx from Campos do Jordão, State of São Paulo (Gripopterygidae)". Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment. 25 (4): 235–247. doi:10.1080/01650529009360823. ISSN0165-0521.
Froehlich, Claudio G. (1993). "Brazilian Plecoptera 7. Old and new species of Gripopteryx (Gripopterygidae)". Aquatic Insects. 15 (1): 21–38. doi:10.1080/01650429309361496. ISSN0165-0424.
Froehlich, Claudio G. (1994). "Brazilian Plecoptera 8. On Paragripopteryx (Gripopterygidae)". Aquatic Insects. 16 (4): 227–239. doi:10.1080/01650429409361559. ISSN0165-0424.
Froehlich, Claudio G. (1998). "Seven New Species of Tupiperla (Plecoptera: Gripopterygidae) from Brazil, With a Revision of the Genus". Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment. 33 (1): 19–36. doi:10.1076/snfe.33.1.19.2170. ISSN0165-0521.
Froehlich, Claudio G. (2002). "Two New Species of Tupiperla (Plecoptera: Gripopterygidae) from the Missions Area of Argentina and Paraguay". Aquatic Insects. 24 (1): 37–40. doi:10.1076/aqin.24.1.37.4906. ISSN0165-0424. S2CID84820499.
Froehlich, Claudio G. (2003). "Stoneflies (Plecoptera: Perlidae) from the Brazilian Amazonia with the description of three new species and a key to Macrogynoplax". Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment. 38 (2): 129–134. doi:10.1076/snfe.38.2.129.15929. ISSN0165-0521. S2CID86445880.
Froehlich, Claudio G. (2004). "Anacroneuria (Plecoptera: Perlidae) from the Boracéia Biological Station, São Paulo State, Brazil". Aquatic Insects. 26 (1): 53–63. doi:10.1076/aqin.26.1.53.35377. ISSN0165-0424. S2CID86499512.