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Vladislav Monchenko

Vladislav Ivanovich Monchenko
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Born 2 April 1932
Moscow, USSR
Died 8 February 2016(2016-02-08) (aged 83)
Kiev, Ukraine
Fields zoology, ecology, carcinology
Institutions I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology
Alma mater Kiev University
Doctoral advisor Aleksandr Markevich
Doctoral students Igor Dovgal,
Vitaliy Anistratenko

Vladislav Ivanovich Monchenko (Ukrainian: Владислав Іванович Монченко) (2 April 1932 – 8 February 2016) was an Ukrainian zoologist and ecologist, a prolific copepodologist. He was a full professor and an Academician of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.

The 3 genera and 9 species of crustaceans are named in honour of V. I. Monchenko.

Moreover in 2015 a minor land snail species from Madagascar, Boucardicus monchenkoi, was named in honour of Prof. Monchenko, who collected its first known specimen during expedition in 1991.


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