Victor Vladimirovich Petryashov Explained

Victor Vladimirovich Petryashov
Birth Date:	6 March 1956
Birth Place:	Nyandoma, Arkhangelsk Oblast
Death Place:	Saint Petersburg
Field:	Zoology, Biogeography, Hydrobiology
Work Institution:	Zoological Institute of RAS
Alma Mater:	Leningrad State University
Education:	Candidate of Science (1990)

Victor Vladimirovich Petryashov (16 March 1956 - 2 July 2018) was a Russian zoologist, carcinologist, hydrobiologist and biogeographer. His scientific research focused on taxonomy and distribution of malacostracan crustaceans, particularly orders Mysida, Lophogastrida and Leptostraca, and marine biogeography and hydrobiology of Arctic, Antarctic and temperate seas of the World, and he published over 120 works.^[1] V.V. Petryashov spent all his professional life in St. Petersburg in the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. As a senior researcher he also curated the malacostracan crustacean collection of the Zoological Institute.

Named taxa

Mysida

• Paracanthomysis shikhotaniensis Petrjashov, 1983
• Stylomysis arcticoglacialis (Petryashov, 1990) (originally Mysis arcticoglacialis Petryashov, 1990)
• Michthyops arcticus Petryashov, 1993
• Meterythrops muranous Petryashov, 2015
• Stellamblyops Petryashov et Frutos, 2017
• Stellamblyops vassilenkoae Petryashov et Frutos, 2017

Lophogastrida

• Neognathophausia Petryashov, 1992
• Fagegnathophausia Petryashov, 2015

Leptostraca

• Pseudonebaliopsis Petryashov, 1996
• Pseudonebaliopsis atlantica Petryashov, 1996
• Sarsinebalia pseudotyphlops Petryashov, 2016
• Nebaliella kurila Petryashov, 2016
• Nebaliella ochotica Petryashov, 2017

Taxa dedicated to V.V. Petryashov

Boreomysis (Petryashovia) Daneliya, 2023 (Mysida: Mysidae: Boreomysinae)^[2]

External links

• Petryashov Victor Vladimirovich

Notes and References

1. Spiridonov, V.A., Daneliya, M.E., Smirnov, I.S., Chernyshev, A.B., Gagaev, S.Y. 2019. To the memory of Victor Vladimirovich Petryashov (1956−1918). Invertebrate Zoology, 16(3): 311–322
2. Daneliya, M. E. . Mysid subfamily Boreomysinae (Crustacea: Mysida: Mysidae) . . 75 . 2. 10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1845 . free . 10138/357511 . free .