Michael Saaristo

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Michael Saaristo
Born1938
Died2008 (2009) (aged 70)
NationalityFinnish
Scientific career
FieldsArachnology
InstitutionsZoological Museum, University of Turku
Author abbrev. (zoology)Saaristo

Michael I. Saaristo (1938 – 27 April 2008) was a Finnish arachnologist, with a particular interest in the spiders of the Seychelles.[1] The World Spider Catalog lists 61 genus names or synonyms and 109 species names or synonyms of which he is the sole or co-author.[2][3]

His account of the spiders of the Seychelles was published in 2010, after his death, with the assistance of .[4]

The spider genera Saaristoa[5] and Saaristattus[6] were named after him. The World Spider Catalog lists 15 species with the specific name saaristoi, honouring him.[7]

References[]

  1. ^ Matyot, Pat (19 May 2008), "Island Conservation—Remembering the spider fanatic who loved Seychelles – Michael Saaristo (1938-2008)", Seychelles Nation, archived from the original on 2 April 2017, retrieved 2017-03-02
  2. ^ "Genus author query for Saaristo", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2017-04-02
  3. ^ "Species author query for Saaristo", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2017-04-02
  4. ^ Saaristo, M.I. (2010), "Araneae", in Gerlach, J. & Marusik, Y. (eds.), Arachnida and Myriapoda of the Seychelles islands, Manchester, UK: Siri Scientific Press, pp. 8–306, ISBN 978-0-9558636-8-4
  5. ^ Millidge, A.F. (1978), "The genera Saaristoa n.gen. and Metapanamomops Millidge (Araneae: Linyphiidae)", Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society, 4: 123
  6. ^ Logunov, Dmitri V. & Azarkina, Galina N. (2008), "Two new genera and species of Euophryinae (Aranei: Salticidae) from SE Asia" (PDF), Arthropoda Selecta, 17 (1–2): 111–115, retrieved 2017-04-02
  7. ^ "Species name query for saaristoi", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2017-04-02


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