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Karl Grobben

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Name
  
Karl Grobben


Died
  
April 13, 1945, Salzburg, Austria

Karl Grobben (August 27, 1854, Brno – April 13, 1945, Salzburg) was an Austrian biologist. 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.

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
  • Sphaerophthalmus grobbeni Spandl, 1923
  • Limnadia grobbeni Daday, 1925
  • Actinia grobbeni Watzl, 1922
  • Paladilhiopsis grobbeni Kuscer, 1928
  • Raillietina grobbeni Böhm, 1925
  • Trypanophis grobbeni (Poche, 1904)
  • References

    Karl Grobben Wikipedia