Stanko Karaman

Stanko Luka Karaman (8 December 1889 – 17 May 1959) was a Yugoslav biologist of Bosnian Serb ancestry, researcher on amphipod and isopod crustaceans.

In 1926 he founded the Museum of South Serbia (later - ) in Skopje and in 1928, the Zoological Garden of Skopje.

Several species are named after him, for example , 1957 (Harpacticoida), Stygophalangium karamani Oudemans, 1933 (Arachnida), or , 2003 (Isopoda).

Other taxa named karamani are labeled after his son , also a carcinologist.

Publications[]

• Pisces Macedoniae, Split 1924 pp. 90
• Komarci Dalmacije i njihovo suzbijanje.- Glasnik Ministarstva narodnog zdravlja, Institut za proucavanje i suzbijanje malarije Trogir, Split, 1925, pp. 1–40.

References[]

• Tjärnö Marine Biological Laboratory: Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names
• Karaman, Ivo (2003): Macedonethes stankoi n. sp., a rhithral oniscidean isopod (Isopoda: Oniscidea: Trichoniscidae) from Macedonia. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 3(3): Electronic Supplement 8: 1-15. PDF

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