Stanko Luka Karaman (8 December 1889 – 17 May 1959) was a Yugoslav biologist of
Bosnian Serb
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ancestry, researcher on
amphipod and
isopod
Isopoda is an order of crustaceans that includes woodlice and their relatives. Isopods live in the sea, in fresh water, or on land. All have rigid, segmented exoskeletons, two pairs of antennae, seven pairs of jointed limbs on the thorax, an ...
crustaceans.
In 1926 he founded the Museum of South Serbia (later -
Macedonian Museum of Natural History) in
Skopje
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The territory of Skopje has been inhabited since at least 4000 BC; ...
and in 1928, the Zoological Garden of Skopje.
Several species are named after him, for example ''
Delamarella karamani''
Petkovski, 1957 (
Harpacticoida
Harpacticoida is an order of copepods, in the subphylum Crustacea. This order comprises 463 genera and about 3,000 species; its members are benthic copepods found throughout the world in the marine environment (most families) and in fresh water ( ...
), ''
Stygophalangium karamani''
Oudemans, 1933 (
Arachnida
Arachnida () is a Class (biology), class of joint-legged invertebrate animals (arthropods), in the subphylum Chelicerata. Arachnida includes, among others, spiders, scorpions, ticks, mites, pseudoscorpions, opiliones, harvestmen, Solifugae, came ...
), or ''
Macedonethes stankoi''
I. Karaman, 2003 (
Isopoda
Isopoda is an order of crustaceans that includes woodlice and their relatives. Isopods live in the sea, in fresh water, or on land. All have rigid, segmented exoskeletons, two pairs of antennae, seven pairs of jointed limbs on the thorax, an ...
).
Other taxa named ''karamani'' are labeled after his son <