Publication Date:
2024-01-12
Description:
An overview of the life of Willem Vervoort (1917-2010), noted specialist in Copepoda and Hydrozoa,
\ndirector of the National Museum of Natural History/Leiden 1972-1982 and extraordinary professor of
\nsystematic zoology/Leiden University 1973-1982, is given. Lists of new taxa in the Hydrozoa for the
\nperiod 1998-2010, and a list of publications for the same period are included; the period 1917-1998 was
\ncovered by Van Bruggen (1998). Vervoort introduced (frequently with co-authors, particularly in the
\nHydrozoa) 70 taxa of Copepoda (i.e. 1 family, 1 subfamily, 11 genera, 57 species) and 199 of Hydrozoa
\n(i.e. 1 family, 11 genera, 181 species, 3 subspecies, 1 variety and 2 nomina nova). The publications are
\nanalyzed and it appears that a stupendous amount of work has been generated, as regards the Hydrozoa particularly in the years after his official retirement (1982-2010). A total of 170 papers covers more
\nthan 9500 pp.
Keywords:
Copepoda
;
Hydrozoa
;
taxonomy
;
biography
;
bibliography
;
history of zoology
Repository Name:
National Museum of Natural History, Netherlands
Type:
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Format:
application/pdf
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