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.
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.