Forty-two years of scientific research on eight legs-celebrating the 60th birthday of Dr Yuri M. Marusik

Jianshuang Zhang; Kirill G Mikhailov; Seppo Koponen; Feiyang Long; Hao Yu; Shuqiang Li

doi:10.3897/zookeys.1100.85374

Forty-two years of scientific research on eight legs-celebrating the 60^th birthday of Dr Yuri M. Marusik

Zookeys. 2022 May 13:1100:87-101. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1100.85374. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Jianshuang Zhang¹, Kirill G Mikhailov², Seppo Koponen³, Feiyang Long⁴, Hao Yu^{1

4}, Shuqiang Li⁵

Affiliations

¹ The State Key Laboratory of Southwest Karst Mountain Biodiversity Conservation of Forestry Administration, School of Life Sciences, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, China.
² The Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Development in Guizhou Province, School of Life Sciences, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, China.
³ Zoological Museum, Moscow Lomonosov State University, Moscow, Russia.
⁴ Zoological Museum, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
⁵ School of Biological Sciences, Guizhou Education University, Guiyang, China.

Abstract

The biography of Dr Yuri Mikhailovich Marusik is presented, and his scientific life illuminated on the occasion of his 60^th birthday. Yuri is a renowned specialist of spiders. He has described 718 new species, 57 new genera, and two new subfamilies of order Araneae. Twenty-five species and one genus have been dedicated to him. Facts and impressions are given as well as a bibliography of his 545 publications.

Keywords: Arachnology; Araneae; bibliography; catalogue; nomenclature; patronyms; taxonomy.

Jianshuang Zhang, Kirill G. Mikhailov, Seppo Koponen, Feiyang Long, Hao Yu, Shuqiang Li.

Publication types

Editorial