Behzad Ghorbani

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Freshwater planaria of the Karaj River under stones in the river.
Freshwater planaria of the Karaj River under stones in the river.
Karaj River in central Alborz.
Karaj River in central Alborz.

Behzad Ghorbani is an Iranian zoologist, born March 26, 1971, in Tehran. He graduated from the University of Tehran and Shahid Beheshti University (The National University of Iran). The first Iranian planarialogist, he identified two new species (Dugesia iranica and Dugesia persica) in 1997. They were found in the Karaj River.

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  • The Japan Mendel Society; Cytologia 63: 441—445, 1998 Cytomorphological Studies in Dugesia Species of Iran; Ghorbani Behzad, Sheidai Masoud, and Khazab Mahmood.

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