Vladyslav Monchenko Explained

Vladyslav Ivanovich Monchenko
Birth Date:2 April 1932
Birth Place:Moscow, USSR
Death Place:Kyiv, Ukraine
Field:zoology, ecology, carcinology
Alma Mater:Kyiv University
Work Institutions:I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology
Doctoral Advisor:Aleksandr Markevich

Vladyslav Ivanovych Monchenko (Владислав Іванович Монченко) (2 April 1932 – 8 February 2016) was a Ukrainian zoologist and ecologist, a prolific copepodologist. He was a full professor and an Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Species named in honour of Prof. Monchenko

The 3 genera and 9 species of crustaceans are named in honour of V. I. Monchenko.

Moreover, in 2015 a minor land snail species from Madagascar, Boucardicus monchenkoi, was named in honour of Prof. Monchenko, who collected its first known specimen during expedition in 1991.

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