Yaroslav Igorevich Starobogatov (; 13 July 1932 – 3 December 2004) was a Russian

zoologist Zoology ( , ) is the scientific study of animals. Its studies include the structure, embryology, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct, and how they interact with their ecosystems. Zoology is one ...

, professor and chief scientist at the Zoological Institute of the

Russian Academy of Sciences The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation; and additional scientific and social units such ...

. 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 dive ...

, particularly on

mollusc Mollusca is a phylum of protostome, protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum ...

s (malacology) and

crustacean Crustaceans (from Latin meaning: "those with shells" or "crusted ones") are invertebrate animals that constitute one group of arthropods that are traditionally a part of the subphylum Crustacea (), a large, diverse group of mainly aquatic arthrop ...

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

systematics 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: phylogenetic trees, phylogenies). Phy ...

of living organisms, to

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and

macroevolution Macroevolution comprises the evolutionary processes and patterns which occur at and above the species level. In contrast, microevolution is evolution occurring within the population(s) of a single species. In other words, microevolution is the ...

and to Soviet and world-wide

biogeography Biogeography is the study of the species distribution, distribution of species and ecosystems in geography, geographic space and through evolutionary history of life, geological time. Organisms and biological community (ecology), communities o ...

. 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