Yaroslav Starobogatov

Yaroslav Igorevich Starobogatov
Born (1932-07-13)July 13, 1932
Moscow
Died December 3, 2004(2004-12-03) (aged 72)
Saint Petersburg
Residence Soviet Union
Russia
Education

Doctor of Science (1971)

Professor
Alma mater Moscow State University (1955)
Scientific career
Fields Zoology
Institutions VINITI,
Zoological Institute of RAS

Yaroslav Igorevich Starobogatov (Russian: Ярослав Игоревич Старобогатов; 13 July 1932 – 3 December 2004) was a Russian zoologist, professor and chief scientist at the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. His research was on invertebrate zoology, particularly on molluscs (malacology) and crustaceans (carcinology). He also was a major contributor to the higher systematics of living organisms, to mirco- and macroevolution and to Soviet and world-wide biogeography.[1]

He described a great number of new animal species.

Taxa named in his honour

  • Neopilina starobogatovi Ivanov & Moskalev, 2007[2]

References

  1. ↑ (in Russian) Khlebovich V. V. (2005)"In memoriam of Yaroslav I. Starobogatov" Ruthenica 14: 105-106.
  2. ↑ Иванов Д. Л., Москалев Л. И.(2007) "Neopilina starobogatovi, a new monoplacophoran species from the Bering Sea, with notes on the taxonomy of the family Neopilinidae (Mollusca: Monoplacophora)". Ruthenica 17: 1-6.



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