Karl Grobben

Karl Grobben (born August 27, 1854 in Brno; died April 13, 1945 in Salzburg) was an Austrian biologist.[1] He graduated from, and later worked at, the University of Vienna, chiefly on molluscs and crustaceans. 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.[1]

Taxonomy

Taxa named by Grobben include:

Taxa named in Grobben's honour include:

References

  1. ^ a b Georg Uschmann (1966). "Grobben, Karl" (in German). Sibenter Band. Grassauer – Hartmann. Neue Deutsche Biographie. Duncker & Humblot. p. 101. http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/bsb00016325/image_117. 
  2. ^ Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins & Michael Grayson (2009). "Grobben". The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 169. ISBN 9780801893049. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=I-kSmWLc6vYC&pg=PA169. 
  3. ^ a b c d e f Hans G. Hanssen. "Karl Grobben". Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names. Baltic and North East Atlantic Taxa. http://test.b-neat.org/bemon/?page=petymol.g.html. Retrieved April 4, 2011.