Victor Vladimirovich Petryashov (16 March 1956 - 2 July 2018) was a Russian

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and

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. His scientific research focused on

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and distribution of

malacostracan Malacostraca is the second largest of the six class (biology), classes of pancrustaceans behind insects, containing about 40,000 living species, divided among 16 order (biology), orders. Its members, the malacostracans, display a great diversity ...

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

, particularly orders

Mysida Mysida is an order (biology), order of small, shrimp-like crustaceans in the malacostracan superorder Peracarida. Their common name opossum shrimps stems from the presence of a Brood pouch (Peracarida), brood pouch or "marsupium" in females. The ...

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and

Leptostraca Leptostraca (from the Greek words for ''thin'' and ''shell'') is an order of small, marine crustaceans. Its members, including the well-studied '' Nebalia'', occur throughout the world's oceans and are usually considered to be filter-feeders. It ...

, and marine biogeography and hydrobiology of

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and temperate seas of the World, and he published over 120 works.Spiridonov, V.A., Daneliya, M.E., Smirnov, I.S., Chernyshev, A.B., Gagaev, S.Y. 2019. To the memory of Victor Vladimirovich Petryashov (1956−1918). Invertebrate Zoology, 16(3): 311–322 V.V. Petryashov spent all his professional life in St. Petersburg in the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. As a senior researcher he also curated the malacostracan crustacean collection of the Zoological Institute.

Named taxa

: *'' Paracanthomysis shikhotaniensis'' Petrjashov, 1983 *'' Stylomysis arcticoglacialis'' (Petryashov, 1990) (originally '' Mysis arcticoglacialis'' Petryashov, 1990) *'' Michthyops arcticus'' Petryashov, 1993 *'' Meterythrops muranous'' Petryashov, 2015 *'' Stellamblyops'' Petryashov et Frutos, 2017 *'' Stellamblyops vassilenkoae'' Petryashov et Frutos, 2017

: *'' Neognathophausia'' Petryashov, 1992 *'' Fagegnathophausia'' Petryashov, 2015

: *'' Pseudonebaliopsis'' Petryashov, 1996 *'' Pseudonebaliopsis atlantica'' Petryashov, 1996 *'' Sarsinebalia pseudotyphlops'' Petryashov, 2016 *'' Nebaliella kurila'' Petryashov, 2016 *'' Nebaliella ochotica'' Petryashov, 2017

Taxa dedicated to V.V. Petryashov

'' Boreomysis (Petryashovia)'' Daneliya, 2023 (

Mysidae Mysidae is the largest family of crustaceans in the order Mysida, with over 1000 species in around 170 genera. Characteristics Members of the family Mysidae are distinguished from other mysids by the fact that the first pereopod (walking leg) h ...

Boreomysinae Boreomysinae is a subfamily of large, mostly deep-water oceanic mysid crustaceans from the family Mysidae. The name, which can be translated as "northern mysids", comes from the genus '' Boreomysis'' G.O. Sars, 1869, established for '' Boreomys ...

)

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