Nikolai Zarudny
Nikolai Alekseyvich Zarudny (Russian: Николай Алексеевич Зарудный;[note 1] 13 September 1859 – 17 March 1919[1]) was a Ukrainian-Russian explorer and zoologist who studied the flora and fauna of Central Asia.
He was born in Gryakovo,
Bolsheviks and moved to the museum at the University of Tashkent. For his work, the Russian Geographical Society awarded him the Przhevalsky Medal.[2] His last work on the ornithology of Turkestan region was not completed as he died of accidental poisoning. He published 218 monographs in the course of his life and named many species.[2]
Eponymous taxa
Among the species and other taxa named after Zarudny are
- Eumeces schneiderii zarudnyi,[3]
- Zarudny's jird,
- Zarudny's rock shrew,
- Zarudny's worm lizard,[3]
- The Freshwater fish Schizothorax zarudnyi (Nikolskii 1897)[4]
- and the distinctive Asian subspecies of the desert sparrow (Passer simplex zarudnyi).[5]
Footnotes
References
- ^ a b Palmer, T. S. (1920). "Notes and News" (PDF). Auk. 37 (4): 638.
- ^ a b Ananjeva, Natalia (7 April 2008). "Zarudniǐ, Nikolaĭ Alekseevich". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Zarudnyi", p. 293).
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Family CYPRINIDAE: Subfamilies ACROSSOCHEILINAE, BARBINAE, SPINIBARBINAE, SCHIZOTHORACINAE, SCHIZOPYGOPSINAE and Incertae sedis". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 27 April 2022.
- ^ Kirwan, Guy M.; Schweitzer, Manuel; Ayé, Raffael; Grieve, Andrew (2009). "Taxonomy, identification and status of Desert Sparrows" (PDF). Dutch Birding. 31: 139–158. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 October 2012.
Further reading
- Bobrinksy, N. A. (1940). N. A. Zarudny (1859–1919): Zoologist and Traveler (transl.) (in Russian). Moscow: Moscow Soc. Nat. Expl. Ser. Histor.
- Steinbacher, F. (1926). "N. A. Sarudny und seine letzten Arbeiten". Journal für Ornithologie (in German). 74 (2): 490–496. S2CID 11722450.
- Johansen, Hans (1952). "Ornithology in Russia". The Ibis. 94 (1): 1–48. .
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