Heinrich Balss (3 June 1886 – 17 September 1957) was a German

zoologist Zoology ()The pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon. is the branch of biology that studies the Animal, animal kingdom, including the anatomy, structure, embryology, evolution, Biological clas ...

, specialising in

Crustacea Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean gro ...

, especially

decapods The Decapoda or decapods (literally "ten-footed") are an order of crustaceans within the class Malacostraca, including many familiar groups, such as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp and prawns. Most decapods are scavengers. The order is estim ...

. He was chief conservator at the ' ("State Zoology Collection") at the

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, and wrote the sections on decapods and stomatopods in

Heinrich Georg Bronn Heinrich Georg Bronn (3 March 1800 – 5 July 1862) was a German geologist and paleontologist. He was the first to translate Charles Darwin's ''On the Origin of Species'' into German in 1860, although not without introducing his own interpretation ...

's seminal work ' ("Classes and Orders of the Animal Kingdom"). A number of

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are named in his honour: *''Balssia'' Kemp, 1922 *''Podocallichirus balssi'' (

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, 1935) *''Detocarcinus balssi'' (Monod, 1956) *''Trizocheles balssi'' (

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, 1914) *''Rhynchocinetes balssi'' Gordon, 1936 *''Ctenocheles balssi'' Kishinouye, 1926 *''Lebbeus balssi'' Hayashi, 1992 *''Galathea balssi'' S. Miyake & K. Baba, 1964

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