Nikolay Alekseyevich Bobrinski
Professor Count Nikolay Alekseyevich Bobrinski (1890–1964) was a Russian zoologist and biogeographer.
Biography[]
He was born in 1890 into the Russian aristocratic family Bobrinski, Bobrinsky or Bobrinskoy (Бобринские). In the 1930s he was held in high esteem within Russia and was working at the Zoological Museum in Moscow. His speciality was mammals and in 1944 he co-authored Mammals of the USSR. Other publications included The Animal World and Nature of the USSR and Animal Geography (1951).[1]
Bobrinski's jerboa (Allactodipus bobrinskii), a species of small rodent, and Bobrinski's serotine (Eptesicus bobrinskoi), a species of vesper bat, were named in his honour.[1]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2009). The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. JHU Press. p. 47. ISBN 978-0-8018-9533-3.
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