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Vladyslav Monchenko

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Vladyslav Ivanovich Monchenko
Born2 April 1932
Died8 February 2016(2016-02-08) (aged 83)
Alma materKyiv University
Scientific career
Fieldszoology, ecology, carcinology
InstitutionsI. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology
Doctoral advisorAleksandr Markevich

Vladyslav Ivanovych Monchenko (Ukrainian: Владислав Іванович Монченко) (2 April 1932 – 8 February 2016) was a Ukrainian zoologist and ecologist, a prolific copepodologist. He was a full professor and an Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Species named in honour of Prof. Monchenko

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The 3 genera and 9 species of crustaceans are named in honour of V. I. Monchenko.

Moreover, in 2015 a minor land snail species from Madagascar, Boucardicus monchenkoi, was named in honour of Prof. Monchenko, who collected its first known specimen during expedition in 1991.

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