Heinrich Balss
Encyclopedia
Heinrich Balss was a German
zoologist
, specialising in Crustacea
, especially decapods
. He was chief conservator at the Zoologische Staatssammlung (State Zoology Collection) at the University of Munich, and wrote the sections on decapods and stomatopods in Heinrich Georg Bronn
's seminal work Klassen und Ordnungen des Tierreichs ('Classes and Orders of the Animal Kingdom').
A number of taxa
are named in his honour:
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
zoologist
Zoology
Zoology |zoölogy]]), is the branch of biology that relates to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct...
, specialising in Crustacea
Crustacean
Crustaceans form a very large group of arthropods, usually treated as a subphylum, which includes such familiar animals as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill and barnacles. The 50,000 described species range in size from Stygotantulus stocki at , to the Japanese spider crab with a leg span...
, especially decapods
Decapoda
The decapods or Decapoda are an order of crustaceans within the class Malacostraca, including many familiar groups, such as crayfish, crabs, lobsters, prawns and shrimp. Most decapods are scavengers. It is estimated that the order contains nearly 15,000 species in around 2,700 genera, with...
. He was chief conservator at the Zoologische Staatssammlung (State Zoology Collection) at the University of Munich, and wrote the sections on decapods and stomatopods in Heinrich Georg Bronn
Heinrich Georg Bronn
Heinrich Georg Bronn was a German geologist and paleontologist.Bronn was born at Ziegelhausen near Heidelberg. Studying at the university of Heidelberg he took his doctor's degree in the faculty of medicine in 1821, and in the following year was appointed professor of natural history...
's seminal work Klassen und Ordnungen des Tierreichs ('Classes and Orders of the Animal Kingdom').
A number of taxa
Taxon
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are named in his honour:
- Balssia Kemp, 1922
- Podocallichirus balssi (MonodThéodore MonodThéodore André Monod was a French naturalist, explorer, and humanist scholar.-Exploration:...
, 1935) - Detocarcinus balssi (Monod, 1956)
- Trizocheles balssi (StebbingThomas Roscoe Rede StebbingThe Reverend Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing F.R.S., F.L.S. was a British zoologist, who described himself as "a serf to natural history, principally employed about Crustacea". Educated in London and Oxford, he only took to natural history in his thirties, having worked as a teacher until then...
, 1914) - Rhynchocinetes balssi Gordon, 1936
- Ctenocheles balssi Kishinouye, 1926
- Lebbeus balssi Hayashi, 1992
- Galathea balssi S. Miyake & K. Baba, 1964