Karl Grobben
Encyclopedia
Karl Grobben was an Austria
n biologist
. He graduated from, and later worked at, the University of Vienna
, chiefly on molluscs
and crustacean
s. 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
.
Taxa named in Grobben's honour include:
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
n biologist
Biologist
A biologist is a scientist devoted to and producing results in biology through the study of life. Typically biologists study organisms and their relationship to their environment. Biologists involved in basic research attempt to discover underlying mechanisms that govern how organisms work...
. He graduated from, and later worked at, the University of Vienna
University of Vienna
The University of Vienna is a public university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world...
, chiefly on molluscs
Mollusca
The Mollusca , common name molluscs or mollusksSpelled mollusks in the USA, see reasons given in Rosenberg's ; for the spelling mollusc see the reasons given by , is a large phylum of invertebrate animals. There are around 85,000 recognized extant species of molluscs. Mollusca is the largest...
and crustacean
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...
s. He was also the editor of a new edition of Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus was a German zoologist. He was an opponent of the ideas of Ernst Haeckel.-Biography:...
' Lehrbuch der Zoologie, and the coiner of the terms protostome
Protostome
Protostomia are a clade of animals. Together with the deuterostomes and a few smaller phyla, they make up the Bilateria, mostly comprising animals with bilateral symmetry and three germ layers...
and deuterostome
Deuterostome
Deuterostomes are a superphylum of animals. They are a subtaxon of the Bilateria branch of the subregnum Eumetazoa, and are opposed to the protostomes...
.
Taxonomy
Taxa named by Grobben include:- EumalacostracaEumalacostracaThe Eumalacostraca are a subclass of crustaceans, containing almost all living malacostracans, about 40,000 described species. The remaining subclasses are the Phyllocarida and possibly the Hoplocarida or mantis shrimps....
Grobben, 1892 - Sagittidae Claus & Grobben, 1905
- Sagittoidea Claus & Grobben, 1905
- ProtostomiaProtostomeProtostomia are a clade of animals. Together with the deuterostomes and a few smaller phyla, they make up the Bilateria, mostly comprising animals with bilateral symmetry and three germ layers...
Grobben, 1908 - DeuterostomiaDeuterostomeDeuterostomes are a superphylum of animals. They are a subtaxon of the Bilateria branch of the subregnum Eumetazoa, and are opposed to the protostomes...
Grobben, 1908
Taxa named in Grobben's honour include:
- Gerbillus grobbeniGerbillus grobbeniGrobben's gerbil, Gerbillus grobbeni is distributed mainly in Libya; Cyrenaica, Dernah. Less than 250 individuals of this species are thought to persist in the wild. It is named after Austrian biologist Karl Grobben....
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)