Hugo Eisig (1847,

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– 10 February 1920) was a German

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. Hugo Eisig was a student of

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. He served as a first assistant (1872–1909), then as a vice-director at

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. Eisig was an expert on

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and in 1887 published "''Die Capitelliden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte: eine Monographie''" (Volume 16 of Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel). He also wrote "''Zur Systematik, Anatomie und Morphologie der Ariciiden nebst Beiträgen zur generellen Systematik''"; Mitteilungen aus der Zoologischen Station zu Neapel, 21(6): 153–600 (1914).WoRMS
Taxon details

Taxa

* ''Centroderes eisigii'' (Zelinka, 1928) * ''Cerebratulus eisigii'' ( Hubrecht, 1880)

References

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