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Rheumatobates hungerfordi

Rheumatobates hungerfordi

Classification

Class
Insecta
Family
Gerridae

Grace Olive Wiley (February 18, 1883 – July 20, 1948) was an American herpetologist best known for her work with venomous snakes. She died of a snakebite she received while posing for a photographer at the age of 65. Background Wiley originally worked as an entomologist at the University of Kansas, but during her mid-thirties she began collecting and observing rattlesnakes while doing field work in the Southwestern United States.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 9