Niphargus spoeckeri | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Crustacea |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Superorder: | Peracarida |
Order: | Amphipoda |
Family: | Niphargidae |
Genus: | Niphargus |
Species: | N. spoeckeri |
Binomial name | |
Niphargus spoeckeri Schellenberg, 1933 | |
Niphargus spoeckeri is a species of crustacean in the family Niphargidae. It is endemic to Slovenia.
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Carinurella paradoxa is a species of crustacean in family Niphargidae, and the only species in the genus Carinurella. It is found in phreatic waters of the Vipava and Soča rivers in Italy and Slovenia.
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Anthony John Whitten was a British conservationist, zoologist, and herpetologist. He was a senior adviser at Fauna and Flora International, where he was regional director for Asia Pacific, and was a former biodiversity specialist with the World Bank. He co-authored several books on the ecology of Southeast Asia and published over 100 field guides in local languages. Born in Dulwich, London, Whitten attended Dulwich College and the University of Southampton. In graduate school he spent two years studying gibbons on the Indonesian island of Siberut, earning his PhD from Cambridge in 1980. He and his wife, zoologist Jane E. J. Whitten, later lived in Indonesia for 10 years. He established a working group on karst ecosystems for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and in 2016 was part of a research team that discovered 15 new species of geckos in Myanmar. He died in 2017, aged 64, as the result of a car collision while bicycling. He is commemorated in the scientific names of at least 13 species, including the geckos Hemiphyllodactylus tonywhitteni and Cnemaspis whittenorum.
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