Yaroslav Igorevich Starobogatov (russian: Ярослав Игоревич Старобогатов; 13 July 1932 – 3 December 2004) was a Russian

zoologist Zoology ()The pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon. is the branch of biology that studies the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and ...

, professor and chief scientist at the Zoological Institute of the

Russian Academy of Sciences The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across t ...

. His research was on

invertebrate zoology Invertebrate zoology is the subdiscipline of zoology that consists of the study of invertebrates, animals without a backbone (a structure which is found only in fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals). Invertebrates are a vast and very ...

, particularly on molluscs (malacology) and

crustacean Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean gro ...

s (carcinology). He also was a major contributor to the higher

systematics Biological systematics is the study of the diversification of living forms, both past and present, and the relationships among living things through time. Relationships are visualized as evolutionary trees (synonyms: cladograms, phylogenetic t ...

of living organisms, to mirco- and

macroevolution Macroevolution usually means the evolution of large-scale structures and traits that go significantly beyond the intraspecific variation found in microevolution (including speciation). In other words, macroevolution is the evolution of taxa abov ...

and to Soviet and world-wide biogeography. Khlebovich V. V. (200
"In memoriam of Yaroslav I. Starobogatov"
''Ruthenica'' 14: 105–106. He described a great number of new animal species.

Taxa named in his honour

* '' Neopilina starobogatovi'' Ivanov & Moskalev, 2007Иванов Д. Л., Москалев Л. И.(2007) "''Neopilina starobogatovi'', a new monoplacophoran species from the Bering Sea, with notes on the taxonomy of the family Neopilinidae (Mollusca: Monoplacophora)". ''Ruthenica'' 17: 1–6.

References

External links

ПРОФЕССОР Я. И. СТАРОБОГАТОВ (1932–2004)
''Zhurnal obshchei biologii'' (2012) *

www.biogeographers.dvo.ru
РАЗВИТИЕ ИДЕЙ БИОГЕОГРАФИИ, ТАКСОНОМИИ И ТЕОРЕТИЧЕСКОЙ БИОЛОГИИ В РАБОТАХ ЯРОСЛАВА ИГОРЕВИЧА СТАРОБОГАТОВА (1932–2004)
''Vestnik SVNTs DVO RAN'' (2012) Russian malacologists 1932 births 2004 deaths Moscow State University alumni Soviet zoologists 20th-century Russian zoologists {{Russia-scientist-stub