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Karl Grobben (27 August 1854, in Brno – 13 April 1945, in Salzburg) was an Austrian zoologist. 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.

Taxonomy

Taxa named by Grobben include:

• Eumalacostraca Grobben, 1892
• Sagittidae Claus & Grobben, 1905
• Sagittoidea Claus & Grobben, 1905
• Protostomia Grobben, 1908
• Deuterostomia Grobben, 1908

Taxa named in Grobben's honour include:

• Gerbillus grobbeni Klaptocz, 1909
• Sphaerophthalmus grobbeni Spandl, 1923
• Limnadia grobbeni Daday, 1925
• Actinia grobbeni Watzl, 1922
• Paladilhiopsis grobbeni Kuscer, 1928
• Raillietina grobbeni Böhm, 1925
• Trypanophis grobbeni (Poche, 1904)

References

1. ^ Georg Uschmann (1966). "Grobben, Karl". Sibenter Band. Grassauer – Hartmann. Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German). Duncker & Humblot. p. 101.
2. Bo Beolens; Michael Watkins & Michael Grayson (2009). "Grobben". The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 169. ISBN 978-0-8018-9304-9.
3. ^ Hans G. Hanssen. "Karl Grobben". Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names. Baltic and North East Atlantic Taxa. Archived from the original on August 30, 2011. Retrieved April 4, 2011.

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