Alireza Zamani (born 11 January 1994) is an Iranian arachnologist and taxonomist.
Zamani has co-recorded over 150 new taxa for the fauna of Iran, and has described several new species, more noticeably Filistata maguirei and Pritha garfieldi of the spider family Filistatidae, named after the former Spider-Man actors Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield. He has appeared on several TV and radio programs, including a guest appearance in the third season of the popular Iranian TV program, Khandevane, where he introduced a new species of Huntsman spiders, which was to be named after the show’s host, Rambod Javan. Zamani has authored The Field Guide of Spiders and Scorpions of Iran, which is the first field guide devoted to the arachnids of the Middle East, containing information on more than 230 species of both orders. He is the senior author of the catalog of Iranian spiders, and is the country coordinator of Iran in the World Spider Catalog project. Zamani is a partner at the Virtual Institute of Spider Taxonomy Research, and a member of the editorial boards of the journals Arachnida: Rivista Aracnologica Italiana and Check-List.
Anemesia koponeni Marusik, Zamani & Mirshamsi, 2014 (Cyrtaucheniidae)
Bastanius Mirshamsi, Zamani & Marusik, 2016 (Hersiliidae)
Bastanius kermanensis Mirshamsi, Zamani & Marusik, 2016 (Hersiliidae)
Cebrennus rambodjavani Moradmand, Zamani & Jäger, 2016 (Sparassidae)
Filistata maguirei Marusik & Zamani, 2015 (Filistatidae)
Hersilia talebii Mirshamsi, Zamani & Marusik, 2016 (Hersiliidae)
Paratheuma enigmatica Zamani, Marusik & Berry, 2016 (Dictynidae)
Pritha garfieldi Marusik & Zamani, 2015 (Filistatidae)
Raveniola mazandaranica Marusik, Zamani & Mirshamsi, 2014 (Nemesiidae)
Sahastata amethystina Marusik & Zamani, 2016 (Filistatidae)
Sahastata sinuspersica Marusik, Zamani & Mirshamsi, 2014 (Filistatidae)
Spariolenus khoozestanus Zamani, 2016 (Sparassidae)
Zaitunia akhanii Marusik & Zamani, 2015 (Filistatidae)
Zaitunia vahabzadehi Zamani & Marusik, 2016 (Filistatidae)
Tegenaria zamanii Marusik & Omelko, 2014 (Agelenidae)
Zamani, A. (2016): The Field Guide of Spiders and Scorpions of Iran. Iranshenasi, 360 pp. [in Persian] Publisher's webpage
Moradmand, M., Zamani, A. & Jäger, P. (2016): On the genus Cebrennus Simon, 1880 in Iran with description of a new species from Iranian Central Desert (Araneae: Sparassidae). Zootaxa 4121 Abstract
Zamani, A., Marusik, Y. M. & Berry, J. (2016): A new species of Paratheuma (Araneae: Dictynidae) from Southwestern Asia and transfer of the genus. Zoology in the Middle East 62 Abstract
Mirshamsi, O., Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2016): A survey of Hersiliidae (Arachnida: Araneae) of Iran with description of one new genus and two new species. Journal of Natural History 59 Abstract
Zamani, A., Mirshamsi, O., Rashidi, P., Marusik, Y. M., Moradmand, M. & Bolzern, A. (2016): New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), part III. Arthropoda Selecta 26 PDF
Mirshamsi, O., Marusik, Y. M., Zamani, A., Moradmand, M. & Kashefi, R. (2015): Annotated checklist of the spiders of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae). Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics Fauna Iranica: I PDF
Marusik, Y. M. & Zamani, A. (2015): Additional new species of Filistatidae (Aranei) from Iran. Arthropoda Selecta 24 PDF
Zamani, A., Mirshamsi, O., Jannesar, B., Marusik, Y. M. & Esyunin, S. L. (2015): New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), Part II. Zoology and Ecology 26 Abstract
Marusik, Y. M. & Zamani, A. (2015): The spider family Filistatidae (Araneae) in Iran. ZooKeys 516 PDF
Marusik, Y. M., Zamani, A. & Mirshamsi, O. (2014): Three new species of mygalomorph and filistatid spiders from Iran (Araneae, Cyrtaucheniidae, Nemesiidae and Filistatidae). ZooKeys 463 PDF
Zamani, A., Nikmagham, Z., Allahdadi, M., Ghassemzadeh, F. & Mirshamsi, O. (2014): New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae). Zoology in the Middle East 60 Abstract
