František Moravec (born 1 January 1939) is a Czech

parasitologist Parasitology is the study of parasites, their hosts, and the relationship between them. As a biological discipline, the scope of parasitology is not determined by the organism or environment in question but by their way of life. This means it ...

who specialises on the

Nematodes The nematodes ( or grc-gre, Νηματώδη; la, Nematoda) or roundworms constitute the phylum Nematoda (also called Nemathelminthes), with plant-parasitic nematodes also known as eelworms. They are a diverse animal phylum inhabiting a broa ...

, especially the nematodes

parasites Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life. The entomologist E. O. Wilson ha ...

of fishes. His research is mainly in the field of

taxonomy Taxonomy is the practice and science of categorization or classification. A taxonomy (or taxonomical classification) is a scheme of classification, especially a hierarchical classification, in which things are organized into groups or types. ...

of the Nematoda.

Education and career

Moravec was born on 1 January 1939 in Velká Bystřice. He was in high school in

Olomouc Olomouc (, , ; german: Olmütz; pl, Ołomuniec ; la, Olomucium or ''Iuliomontium'') is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 99,000 inhabitants, and its larger urban zone has a population of about 384,000 inhabitants (2019). Located on t ...

then was a student in the

Masaryk University Masaryk University (MU) ( cs, Masarykova univerzita; la, Universitas Masarykiana Brunensis) is the second largest university in the Czech Republic, a member of the Compostela Group and the Utrecht Network. Founded in 1919 in Brno as the se ...

in Brno,

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(at that time Czechoslovakia). For his Masters in 1962, he studied the parasitic worms of reptiles of

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. After graduation, he worked at the Institute of Parasitology of the

Czech Academy of Sciences The Czech Academy of Sciences (abbr. CAS, cs, Akademie věd České republiky, abbr. AV ČR) was established in 1992 by the Czech National Council as the Czech successor of the former Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and its tradition goes back ...

České Budějovice České Budějovice (; german: Budweis ) is a city in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 93,000 inhabitants. It is located in the valley of the Vltava River, at its confluence with the Malše. České Budějovice is t ...

, and in 1970 completed his thesis on nematodes parasites in fish. He is a world authority on Nematodes, especially their systematics and biology.

Research

Among the most important works by Moravec, Tomáš Scholz mentions his revision of the genera '' Rhabdochona'' and '' Anguillicola'', and also his clarification of the family

Capillariidae ''Capillariidae'' is a family of parasitic nematodes. All its members are parasites in vertebrates when they are in their adult stage. Taxonomy The family Capillariidae was created by Railliet in 1915. It is accepted in the most recent classifi ...

, for which he proposed to split the old "catch-all" genus '' Capillaria'' in 14 genera. In 2001, Moravec proposed a new revision of the

,Moravec, F. 2001: Trichinelloid Nematodes parasitic in cold-blooded vertebrates. Academia, Praha, 432 pp () with 22 genera. In 1994, Moravec published a 500-page book, ''Parasitic nematodes of freshwater fishes of Europe'',Moravec, F. (1994). Parasitic nematodes of freshwater fishes of Europe. Kluwer Academic Publishers. which was considered a major contribution to the study of fish parasites. In 1996, Scholz reported that Moravec had already published nearly 270 papers — the number is now higher than 350, including eleven books. Moravec is a member of the Editorial Board of several international journals such as '' Folia Parasitologica'', '' Helminthologia'', '' Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae'', '' Acta Parasitologica'' and ''

Parasite Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life. The entomologist E. O. Wilson has ...

''.

Eponymous taxa

Many taxa of parasites have been named in the honour of František Moravec by parasitologists from various countries, such as two genera of nematodes, '' Moravecia'' Ribu & Lester, 2004 and '' Moravecnema'' Justine, Cassone & Petter, 2002 and many species of Nematodes such as '' Aonchotheca moraveci'' Esteban, Mas-Coma, Oltra-Ferrero & Botella, 1991, '' Camallanus moraveci'' Petter, Cassone & France, 1974, '' Dichelyne moraveci'' Petter, 1995,Petter, A. J. (1995). ''Dichelyne moraveci'' n. sp., parasite de ''Pseudoplatystoma fasciatum'' et notes sur les Cucullanidae du Paraguay. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 102(3), 769-778. PD

/ref> '' Freitascapillaria moraveci'' Caspeta-Mandujano, Salgado-Maldonado & Vazquez, 2009, '' Huffmanela moraveci'' Carballo & Navone, 2007, '' Oswaldocruzia moraveci'' Ben Slimane & Durette-Desset, 1995,Ben Slimane, B., & Durette-Desset, M.-C. (1995). Sur les ''Oswaldocruzia'' (Nematoda, Trichostrongylina, Molineoidea), parasites d'amphibiens et de lézards de Cuba et de Porto Rico. Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. Section A, Zoologie, biologie et écologie animales, 17(1-2), 65-76. '' Philometroides moraveci'' Vismanis & Yunchis, 1994, '' Pseudocapillaria moraveci'' Iglesias, Centeno, Garcia & Garcia-Estevez, 2013, '' Pterothominx moraveci'' Baruš, Kajerová & Koubková, 2005, '' Royandersonia moraveci'' (Anderson & Lim, 1996) Moravec & Van As, 2004, '' Spinitectus moraveci'' Boomker & Puylaert, 1994,Boomker, J., & Puylaert, F. A. (1994). Eight new Afrotropical ''Spinitectus'' spp.(Nematoda: Cystidicolidae) from freshwater fishes with a key to the members of the genus in the region. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, 61, 127-127. '' Goezia moraveci'' De & Dey, 1992, '' Moaciria moraveci'' Bursey, Goldberg & Kraus, 2007 and '' Raphidascaroides moraveci'' Pereira, Tavares, Scholz & Luque, 2015, and also species of

Monogenea Monogeneans are a group of ectoparasitic flatworms commonly found on the skin, gills, or fins of fish. They have a direct lifecycle and do not require an intermediate host. Adults are hermaphrodites, meaning they have both male and female repro ...

such as '' Gyrodactylus moraveci'' Ergens, 1979 and'' Kritskyia moraveci'' Kohn, 1990 and of Digenea such as '' Homalometron moraveci'' Bray, Justine & Cribb, 2007

Drawings of parasites by František Moravec

As a specialist of the

of parasitic worms, Moravec has drawn a large number of species. The gallery shows just a few of these. Parasite140132-fig1 Philometra protonibeae (Nematoda, Philometridae).png, '' Philometra protonibeae'' (

Nematoda The nematodes ( or grc-gre, Νηματώδη; la, Nematoda) or roundworms constitute the phylum Nematoda (also called Nemathelminthes), with plant-parasitic nematodes also known as eelworms. They are a diverse animal phylum inhabiting a broa ...

, Philometridae) Parasite170008-fig2 - Philometra rara Moravec et al., 2017 - drawings.png, '' Philometra rara'' (

, Philometridae) Parasite180070-fig1 Rasheedia heptacanthi (Nematoda, Physalopteridae).png, '' Rasheedia heptacanthi'' (

, Physalopteridae) Parasite160062-fig2 - Nematode parasites of four species of Carangoides - Cucullanus bulbosus (drawings).png, '' Cucullanus bulbosus'' (

, Cucullanidae) Parasite180099-fig1 Cucullanus austropacificus (Nematoda, Cucullanidae).png, '' Cucullanus austropacificus '' (

, Cucullanidae)

References

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