Johan August Wahlberg

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Johan August Wahlberg (1810 - 1856) was a Swedish naturalist and collector.

Wahlberg studied chemistry at the university of Uppsala. He travelled in southern Africa between 1838 and 1856, sending thousands of natural history specimens back to Sweden. He was exploring the headwaters of the Limpopo River when he was killed by a wounded elephant.

He is commemorated in the Wahlberg's Eagle Aquila wahlbergi (Sundevall 1851), Wahlberg's Honeyguide Prodotiscus regulus (Sundevall 1850) and Wahlberg's Cormorant Phalacrocorax neglectus.

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