Karl Grobben

Austrian zoologist
Karl Grobben
Born
Karl Grobben

(1854-08-27)27 August 1854
Died13 April 1945(1945-04-13) (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

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

  1. ^ a b Georg Uschmann (1966). "Grobben, Karl". Sibenter Band. Grassauer – Hartmann. Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German). Duncker & Humblot. p. 101.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.
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