Michele Stossich (10 August 1857 – 7 February 1906) was an Austro-Hungarian
zoologist
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and
helminthologist
Helminthology is the study of parasitic worms (helminths). The field studies the taxonomy of helminths and their effects on their hosts.
The origin of the first compound of the word is the Greek '' ἕλμινς'' - helmins, meaning "worm".
In ...
born in
Trieste
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. He was the son of
biologist
A biologist is a scientist who conducts research in biology. Biologists are interested in studying life on Earth, whether it is an individual Cell (biology), cell, a multicellular organism, or a Community (ecology), community of Biological inter ...
Adolf Stossich (1824-1900).
Stossich studied at the
University of Innsbruck
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It is the largest education facility in the Austrian States of Austria, ...
and
Vienna
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Polytechnic, earning his teaching certificate in 1878. Afterwards, he was an instructor in
Fiume
Rijeka (;
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(1878-1882) and Trieste.
In 1902 he described
Cyclocoelidae
Cyclocoelidae is a family of trematodes in the order Plagiorchiida.
Genera
The genera are ordered by subfamily.
*Cyclocoelinae Stossich, 1902
**'' Circumvitellatrema'' Dronen, Greiner, Ialeggio & Nolan, 2009Dronen, N. O., Greiner, E. C., Ialeggi ...
, a family of parasitic
flatworms
Platyhelminthes (from the Greek πλατύ, ''platy'', meaning "flat" and ἕλμινς (root: ἑλμινθ-), ''helminth-'', meaning "worm") is a phylum of relatively simple bilaterian, unsegmented, soft-bodied invertebrates commonly called ...
. During his career he classified a number of helminthological species, and has several zoological species named after him.
He was a member of the ''Società adriatica di scienze naturali'' (Adriatic Society of Natural Sciences), the ''Società agraria di Trieste'' (Agricultural Society of Trieste) and a corresponding member of the Museum of
Rovereto
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History
Rovereto was an ancient fortress town standing at the fronti ...
and the Royal Academy of Sciences
Modena
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A town, and seat of an archbis ...
.
He published numerous scientific articles in various periodicals, many of them located in the acts of the Adriatic Society of Natural Sciences, Trieste. The following are a few of his principal publications:
* ''I distomi dei pesci marini e d'acqua dolce'', 1886.
* ''I distomi dei mammiferi'', 1892.
* ''Saggio di una fauna elmintologica di Trieste e provincie contermini'', 1898.
World Cat Identities
(publications)
References
Cicica Scuola Reale Superiore Di Trieste 1905/1906] (obituary)
Zoologists from Austria-Hungary
1857 births
1906 deaths
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