Karl Grobben
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Karl Grobben (born August 27, 1854 in Brno; died April 13, 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]
[edit] Taxonomy
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]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Georg Uschmann (1966). "Grobben, Karl" (in German). Sibenter Band. Grassauer – Hartmann. Neue Deutsche Biographie. Duncker & Humblot. p. 101. http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/bsb00016325/image_117.
- ^ Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins & Michael Grayson (2009). "Grobben". The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 169. ISBN 9780801893049. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=I-kSmWLc6vYC&pg=PA169.
- ^ a b c d e f Hans G. Hanssen. "Karl Grobben". Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names. Baltic and North East Atlantic Taxa. http://test.b-neat.org/bemon/?page=petymol.g.html. Retrieved April 4, 2011.
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