Delane C. Kritsky

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Delane C. Kritsky
Citizenship American
Alma mater University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Known for parasitology, Monogenea
Scientific career
Fields Parasitology
Institutions Idaho State University

Delane C. Kritsky is an American parasitologist who specialised on the Monogenea, a class of parasitic flatworms which are important ectoparasites of fishes. His research was mainly in the fields of taxonomy, faunistics, and phylogeny of the Monogenea.

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He is one of the most prolific author in the field of systematics of Monogenea, with hundreds of species described, [1] and has co-authored a major, highly cited revision of the Monogenea in 1993. [2]

Career

Delane C. Kritsky earned his PhD degree in zoology from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1971. [3] [4] He had his whole career in Idaho State University where he began in 1974 as an assistant professor, and became a full professor in 1983. He has been an administrator for much of his career: from 1979 to 1989 he was the chair of the Department of Allied Health Professions, was acting dean in 1985-1986, and associate dean from 1989 until his retirement. [4] He is still (2018) Emeritus Professor in Idaho State University. [5] He is a member of the editorial board of several journals of parasitology, including Zoologia [6] and Systematic Parasitology. [7]

Eponymous taxa

The digenean genus Kritsky Orélis-Ribeiro and Bullard, 2016 [8] and the monogenean genus Kritskyia Kohn, 1990 [9] were named in his honour. Several species of monogeneans were named in his honour, such as Bravohollisia kritskyi Lim, 1995, [10] Dactylogyrus kritskyi Mizelle & McDougal 1970, [11] Protogyrodactylus kritskyi Boeger, Diamanka, Pariselle & Patella 2012, [12] Pseudorhabdosynochus kritskyi Dyer, Williams & Bunkley-Williams, 1995, [13] Sciadicleithrum kritskyi Bellay, Takemoto, Yamada & Pavanelli, 2009 [14] and Haliotrema kritskyi Vala, Maillard & Overstreet, 1982 [15] and a species of digeneans, Lissorchis kritskyi Barnhart & Powell 1979. [16]

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References

  1. ↑ "Delane C. Kritsky". BioNames. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  2. ↑ Boeger, Walter A.; Kritsky, Delane C. (1993). "Phylogeny and a revised classification of the Monogenoidea Bychowsky, 1937 (Platyhelminthes)". Systematic Parasitology. 26 (1): 1–32. doi:10.1007/BF00009644. ISSN   0165-5752.
  3. ↑ Kritsky, Delane Charles (1971). Studies on the fine structure of the monogenetic trematode, Gyrodactylus eucaliae, Ikezaki and Hoffman, 1957. Thesis, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. p. 534.
  4. 1 2 "Kritsky, Delane". Parasites World. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
  5. ↑ "Faculty and Staff - Health Education". Idaho State University. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  6. ↑ "Zoologia - Editorial Board". Pensoft. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  7. ↑ "Systematic Parasitology - Editorial Board". Springer. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  8. ↑ Orélis-Ribeiro, Raphael; Bullard, Stephen A. (2016). "Two new genera of fish blood flukes (Digenea: Aporocotylidae) from catfishes in the Peruvian Amazon" (PDF). Journal of Parasitology. 102 (3): 357–368. doi:10.1645/15-905. ISSN   0022-3395. PMID   26859799.
  9. ↑ Kohn, Anna (1990). "Kritskyia moraveci n. g., n. sp. (Monogenea: Dactylogyridae) from the urinary bladder and ureters of Rhamdia quelen (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) (Pisces: Pimelodidae) in Brazil". Systematic Parasitology. 17 (2): 81–85. doi:10.1007/BF00009794. ISSN   0165-5752.
  10. ↑ Lim, L. H. S. (1995). "Bravohollisia Bychowsky & Nagibina, 1970 and Caballeria Bychowsky & Nagibina, 1970 (Monogenea: Ancyrocephalidae) from Pomadasys hasta (Bloch) (Pomadasyidae), with the description of a new attachment mechanism". Systematic Parasitology. 32 (3): 211–224. doi:10.1007/BF00008830. ISSN   0165-5752.
  11. ↑ Mizelle, J. D.; McDougal, H. D. (1970). "Studies on Monogenetic Trematodes. XLV. The genus Dactylogyrus in North America. Key to Species, host-parasite and parasite-host lists, localities, emendations, and description of D. kritskyi sp. n.". American Midland Naturalist. 84 (2): 444. doi:10.2307/2423860. ISSN   0003-0031. JSTOR   2423860.
  12. ↑ Boeger, Walter A.; Diamanka, Arfang; Pariselle, Antoine; Patella, Luciana (2012). "Two new species of Protogyrodactylus (Monogenoidea: Dactylogyridae) from the gills of Gerres nigri (Teleostei: Gerreidae) from Senegal". Folia Parasitologica. 59 (1): 59–63. doi: 10.14411/fp.2012.009 . ISSN   0015-5683. PMID   22439429. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  13. ↑ Dyer, William G.; Williams, Ernest H.; Bunkley-Williams, Lucy (1995). "Pseudorhabdosynochus kritskyi n. sp. (Monogenea: Diplectanidae) on Gag from the Gulf of Mexico". Journal of Aquatic Animal Health. 7 (4): 337–340. doi:10.1577/1548-8667(1995)007<0337:KNSDOG>2.3.CO;2. ISSN   0899-7659. S2CID   86249928.
  14. ↑ Bellay, S., Takemoto, R. M., Yamada, F. H., & Pavanelli, G. C. (2009). Two new species of Sciadicleithrum (Monogenea: Dactylogyridae), gill parasites of Geophagus proximus (Castelnau)(Teleostei: Cichlidae), from the upper Parana River floodplain, Brazil. Zootaxa, 2081, 57-66
  15. ↑ Vala, J. C., Maillard, C., & Overstreet, R. M. (1982). Haliotrema (Monogenea: Ancyrocephalinae) from ostraciid fishes in Guadeloupe, West Indies. Journal of Parasitology, 1130-1137,
  16. ↑ Barnhart, M. C., & Powell, E. C. (1979). Lissorchis kritskyi sp. n.(Digenea: Lissorchiidae) from the river carpsucker, Carpiodes carpio (Rafinesque). Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington, 46, 47-51.
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