Stanko Karaman was a researcher on amphipods and isopods. Several species are named after him, for example Delamarella karamani Petkovski, 1957 (Harpacticoida

Harpacticoida

Harpacticoida is an order of copepods, in the Subphylum Crustacea. This order comprises 463 genera and about 3,000 species. Members of it are benthic copepods found throughout the world in the marine environment and in fresh water...

, Latiremidae), Stygophalangium karamani

Stygophalangium karamani

Stygophalangium karamani is a species of arachnid. Although sometimes classified as a harvestman in the infraorder Eupnoi , its identity is uncertain, but it is probably a species of Acari .-Name:...

Oudemans, 1933 (Arachnida, incertae sedis

Incertae sedis

, is a term used to define a taxonomic group where its broader relationships are unknown or undefined. Uncertainty at specific taxonomic levels is attributed by , , and similar terms.-Examples:*The fossil plant Paradinandra suecica could not be assigned to any...

), or Macedonethes stankoi Karaman, 2003 (Isopoda

Isopoda

Isopods are an order of peracarid crustaceans, including familiar animals such as woodlice and pill bugs. The name Isopoda derives from the Greek roots and...

, Trichoniscidae

Trichoniscidae

Trichoniscidae are a family of isopods , including the most abundant British woodlouse, Trichoniscus pusillus.Most species of woodlice that have returned to an aquatic or amphibian way of life belong to this family...

).

In 1926 he founded the Macedonian Museum of Natural History in Skopje

Skopje

Skopje is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Macedonia with about a third of the total population. It is the country's political, cultural, economic, and academic centre...

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There are several other researchers with the same name, that have also species named after them, for example:

• his son, Gordan S. Karaman, had also several taxa named after him, including Coloboceras karamani Bartsch, 1973 (Acarina
  Acarina
  Acari are a taxon of arachnids that contains mites and ticks. The diversity of the Acari is extraordinary and its fossil history goes back to at least the early Devonian period. As a result, acarologists have proposed a complex set of taxonomic ranks to classify mites...
  
  , Halacaridae), Autonoe karamani Myers, 1976 (Amphipoda
  Amphipoda
  Amphipoda is an order of malacostracan crustaceans with no carapace and generally with laterally compressed bodies. The name amphipoda means "different-footed", and refers to the different forms of appendages, unlike isopods, where all the legs are alike. Of the 7,000 species, 5,500 are classified...
  
  , Corophiida, Aoridae), Rhipidogammarus karamani Stock, 1971 (Gammaridae
  Gammaridae
  Gammaridae is a family of amphipods. In North America they are included among the folk taxonomic category of "scuds", and otherwise gammarids is usually used as a common name....
  
  ), and Gordania Berge & Vader, 2001 (Amphipoda, Stegocephalidae).