Alexandr Vladimirovich Gussev

Alexandr Vladimirovich Gussev (Александр Владимирович Гусев, 5 July 1917 – 31 December 1999), sometimes spelled Gusev in the literature, was a Russian helminthologist specialist of monogeneans.

Gussev was a student of the soviet parasitologist V. A. Dogiel. He worked at the Zoological Institute in Leningrad, then Saint Petersburg, Russia. He received his PhD in 1953 and his DrSc in 1973. Gussev wrote more than 220 publications, dealing with systematics, faunistics, morphology, development, biology and zoogeography of fish parasites.

Gussev is mainly known for his work on the Monogenea, a group of Platyhelminthes parasitic on freshwater and marine fish. He was one of the world leader in this field and described more than 200 new species of monogeneans. He also authored a handbook on methods of collecting monogeneans.

Honours

* Certificate of Honour from the Preasidium of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR
* Honorary member of the American Society of Parasitologists (1978)
* Honorary member of the Czechoslovakia Parasitological Society (1990)

Political engagement

Gussev protested against the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Soviet forces in 1968.

Taxa named on his honour

Although a simple transliteration of his name in Russian (Гусев) is Gusev (with a single s), the pronunciation in Russian is Gussev (as with two s) and citations in the Western literature generally use this spelling. Hence, the many taxa created in the honour of Gussev are usually named ''gussevi''. The list of species includes ''Ancyrocephalus gussevi'' Dontsov, 1972, ''Bravohollisia gussevi'' Lim, 1995, ''Calydiscoides gussevi'' Oliver, 1984, ''Cosmetocleithrum gussevi'' Kritsky, Thatcher & Boeger, 1986, ''Dactylogyroides gussevi'' Hossain, Chandra & Mohanta, 2001, ''Dactylogyroides gussevia'' Singh, Anuradha & Arya, 2003, ''Diplozoon gussevi'' Glaser & Glaser, 1964, ''Dogielius gussevi'' Singh & Jain, 1988, ''Gyrodactyloides gussevi'' Bychowsky & Polyansky, 1953, ''Lamellodiscus gussevi'' Sanfilippo, 1978, ''Ligophorus gussevi'' Miroshnichenko & Maltsev, 2004, ''Mazocraes gussevi'' Agrawal & Sharma, 1989, ''Microcotyle gussevi'' Gupta & Krishna, 1980, ''Protogyrodactylus gussevi'' Bychowsky & Nagibina, 1974, ''Silurodiscoides gussevi'' Singh, Kumari & Agrawal, 1992, ''Trianchoratus gussevi'' Lim, 1987. All these species names designate monogeneans. However, the species names ''Lepeophtheirus gusevi'' Moon & Kim, 2012, a copepod, and ''Neopavlovskioides gusevi'' Rodyuk, 1986, a monogenean, are based on the spelling with a single s.

Gussev is also honoured by a genus name, ''Gussevia'' Kohn & Paperna, 1964. ''Gussevia'' was considered a junior synonym of ''Urocleidoides'' Mizelle and Price, 1964 by Kritsky and Thatcher in 1983 but was resurrected Kritsky, D. C., Thatcher, V. E., a Boeger, W. A. 1986. Neotropical Monogenea. 8. Revision of Urocleidoides (Dactylogyridae, Ancyrocephalinae). Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington, 53, 1-3
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and is now valid. ''Gussevia'' is a genus of monogenean parasites of Neotropical cichlid fishes.

List of principal works

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*Gusev A.V. Materials on the monogenetic trematodes of the Amur River. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta AN SSSR, 1953; 13: 127-136.
*Gusev A.V. Monogenetic trematodes of fish of the Amur river system. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta AN SSSR, 1955; 19: 172-398.
*Gusev A.V. New species of monogenetic trematodes from the gills of ''Squaliobarbus curriculus'' from rivers of China. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta AN SSSR, 1955; 21: 119-124.
*Gusev A.V. New species of Monogenoidea from fishes of Ceylon. Bulletin of the Fisheries Research Station, Ceylon, 1963; 16: 53-93.
*Ergens R. and Gusev A.V. ''Dactylogyrus prostae'' Molnar, 1964 (Monogenoidea) aus den Kiemen von ''Leuciscus cephalus'' (L.) und ''Leuciscus cephalis orientalis'' Nordmann. Ceskoslovenska Parasitologie, 1965; 12:323-325.
*Gavrilova N.G. and Gusev A.V., and Dzhalilov U. Dactylogyrids from ''Capoetobrama kuschakewitschi'' (Kessler). Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta AN SSSR, 1965; 35: 132-136.
*Gusev A.V. Dactylogyrids from ''Capoetobrama kuschakewitschi'' (Kessler). Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta AN SSSR, 1965; 35: 132-136.
*Gusev A.V. Dactylogyrids from ''Tinca tinca'' (L.). Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta AN SSSR, 1965; 35: 126-131.
*Gusev A.V. Some new species of ''Dactylogyrus'' from the European freshwater fishes. Folia Parasitologica, 1966; 13(4): 289-321.
*Glaser H.-J. and Gusev A.V. Certain errors in the system of classification of European dactylogyrids. Parasitologiya, 1967; 1(6): 535-438.
*Gusev A.V. New species of ''Dactylogyrus'' from fishes of the Far East. Parazitologicheskii Sbornik, 1967; 23: 250-255.
*Gusev A.V. Two new ''Gyrodactylus'' species (Monogenoidea) from Cyprinid fishes from the Eastern USSR. Folia Parasitologica, 1975; 22(1): 85-87.
*Gusev A.V. Freshwater Indian Monogenoidea. Principles of systematics, analysis of the world faunas and their evolution. Indian Journal of Helminthology, 1976; 25/26: 1-241.
*Gusev A.V. ''Gyrodactylus costatae'' sp.n. (Gyrodactylidae: Monogenoidea) from ''Lefua costata'' (Kessler) . Folia Parasitologica, 1976; 23(2): 186.
*Gusev A.V. Monogenoidea of freshwater fishes. Principles of systematics, analysis of world fauna and its evolution. Parazitologicheskii Sbornik, 1978; 28: 96-198.
*Gusev A.V. ''Gyrodactylus incognitus'' sp.n. (Monogenoidea) from ''Noemacheilus strauchi'' from Middle Asia. Folia Parasitologica, 1980; 27(1): 91-92.
*Aligadzhiev A.D.; Gusev A.V., and Kazieva N.Sh. A new species of monogeneans from gills of ''Rutilus rutilus caspicus''. Parasitologiya, 1984; 18(5): 412-415.
*Gusev A.V. and Dzhalilov U.D. A new species of ''Dactylogyrus'' (Monogenea) from ''Varicorhinus''. Parasitologiya, 1984; 18(6): 487-488.
*Krasyukova Z.V. and Gusev A.V. Description of a new species ''Gyrinocheilus monchadskii'' sp.n. (Cypriniformes, Gyrinocheilidae) and a new species of its parasite the Monogenea ''Dactylogyrus lindbergi'' sp. n. (Dactylogyridea, Dactylogyridae). Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta AN SSSR, 1987; 162: 67-72.
*Gusev A.V., Jalali B. and Molnar K. New and known species of ''Dactylogyrus'' Diesing, 1850 (Monogenea, Dactylogyridae) from Iranian freshwater cyprinid fishes. Systematic Parasitology, 1993; 25: 221-228.
*Gusev A.V., Ali N.M., Abdul-Ameer K.N., Amin S.M., and Molnar K. New and known species of ''Dactylogyrus'' Diesing, 1850 (Monogenea, Dactylogyridae) from cyprinid fishes of the River Tigris, Iraq. Systematic Parasitology, 1993; 25: 229-237.
*Gusev A.V. Six new species of the genus ''Dactylogyrus'' (Monogenea: Dactylogyridae) from Iranian freshwater fishes. Zoosystematica Rossica, 1993; 2(1): 29-35.

References

External links

List of taxonomic papers of Alexandr Vladimirovich Gussev in ZooBank (very incomplete)

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1917 births
1999 deaths
Russian parasitologists
Soviet parasitologists