Carl Bovallius
Carl Erik Alexander Bovallius was a Swedish biologist and archaeologist.Life
Bovallius became a student in Uppsala in 1868, and received a Ph.D. in 1875. Bovallius undertook, for scientific purposes, travel along the Swedish and Norwegian coasts.
In 1881-83, he made zoological and ethnographic studies in Latin America, to where he returned in the late 1890s.
Starting in 1881, Carl Bovallius explored Central America, and especially Nicaragua, in search of ancient sites. He studied places like Ometepe, and Zapatera, and also researched the ethnography of local tribes.
A species of snake, Rhinobothryum bovallii, is named in his honor.
