Nicholas Marcellus Hentz

Title page of The Spiders of the United States: A Collection of the Arachnological Writings of Nicholas Marcellus Hentz, M.D. (1875)

Nicholas Marcellus Hentz (July 25, 1797 – November 4, 1856) was a French American arachnologist. Hentz was born in Versailles, France. He immigrated to the United States in 1816 and became a pioneering zoologist in the field of arachnology.

124 spider species were first described by him, and as is custom in binomial naming, species are noted with the name and year of the person who first classified them. A few spiders of note Hentz classified are the Yellow sac spider and the Southern house spider.

He died in Marianna, Florida.

External links

• Works by or about Nicholas Marcellus Hentz in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

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Name	Hentz, Nicholas Marcellus
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Date of birth	July 25, 1797
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Date of death	November 4, 1856
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