Karl Grobben
Karl Grobben | |
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Born | Karl Grobben 27 August 1854 |
Died | 13 April 1945 | (aged 90)
Karl Grobben (27 August 1854, in Brno – 13 April 1945, in Salzburg) was an Austrian biologist.[1] He graduated from, and later worked at, the University of Vienna, chiefly on molluscs and crustaceans. He was also the editor of a new edition of Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus' Lehrbuch der Zoologie, and the coiner of the terms protostome and deuterostome.[1]
Taxonomy
[edit]Taxa named by Grobben include:
- Eumalacostraca Grobben, 1892
- Sagittidae Claus & Grobben, 1905
- Sagittoidea Claus & Grobben, 1905
- Protostomia Grobben, 1908
- Deuterostomia Grobben, 1908
Taxa named in Grobben's honour include:
- Gerbillus grobbeni Klaptocz, 1909[2]
- Sphaerophthalmus grobbeni Spandl, 1923[3]
- Limnadia grobbeni Daday, 1925[3]
- Actinia grobbeni Watzl, 1922[3]
- Paladilhiopsis grobbeni Kuscer, 1928[3]
- Raillietina grobbeni Böhm, 1925[3]
- Trypanophis grobbeni (Poche, 1904)[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Georg Uschmann (1966). "Grobben, Karl". Sibenter Band. Grassauer – Hartmann. Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German). Duncker & Humblot. p. 101.
- ^ Bo Beolens; Michael Watkins & Michael Grayson (2009). "Grobben". The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 169. ISBN 978-0-8018-9304-9.
- ^ a b c d e f Hans G. Hanssen. "Karl Grobben". Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names. Baltic and North East Atlantic Taxa. Archived from the original on August 30, 2011. Retrieved April 4, 2011.