Japetus Steenstrup

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Image:Japetussteenstrup.png Japetus Steenstrup (1813 - 1897) was a Danish zoologist, biologist, and professor.

He was a professor for zoology at the University of Copenhagen. He worked on a great many of subjects, including cephalopods, but also in genetics, where he discovered the principle of the alternation of generations in some parasitic worms in 1842.

Japetus Steenstrup was a professor to zoologist Johan Erik Vesti Boas, who was also a student of zoologist Carl Gegenbaur. <ref name=BoasTMB>

    "Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names. B"
    (biographies of scientists with names beginning "B"),
    Hans G. Hansson, TJärnö Marine Biological Laboratory,
    Göteborg University and Stockholm University, TMBL.gu.se webpage:
    TMBL-P-Etymol-B.

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