Stanko Luka Karaman (8 December 1889 – 17 May 1959) was a Yugoslav biologist of
Bosnian Serb
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ancestry, researcher on
amphipod and
isopod crustaceans.
In 1926 he founded the Museum of South Serbia (later -
Macedonian Museum of Natural History
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People Modern
* Macedonians (ethnic group), a nation and a South Slavic ethnic group primarily associated with North Ma ...
) in
Skopje
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and in 1928, the Zoological Garden of Skopje.
Several species are named after him, for example ''
Delamarella karamani''
Petkovski, 1957 (
Harpacticoida
Harpacticoida is an order of copepods, in the subphylum Crustacea. This order comprises 463 genera and about 3,000 species; its members are benthic copepods found throughout the world in the marine environment (most families) and in fresh water ( ...
), ''
Stygophalangium karamani
''Stygophalangium karamani'' is a species of arachnid. Although sometimes classified as a harvestman in the infraorder Eupnoi (Phalangioidea), its identity is uncertain, but it is probably a species of Acari (mites).
Name
The genus name is a co ...
''
Oudemans, 1933 (
Arachnida
Arachnida () is a class of joint-legged invertebrate animals (arthropods), in the subphylum Chelicerata. Arachnida includes, among others, spiders, scorpions, ticks, mites, pseudoscorpions, harvestmen, camel spiders, whip spiders and vinegaroon ...
), or ''
Macedonethes stankoi''
I. Karaman, 2003 (
Isopoda
Isopoda is an order of crustaceans that includes woodlice and their relatives. Isopods live in the sea, in fresh water, or on land. All have rigid, segmented exoskeletons, two pairs of antennae, seven pairs of jointed limbs on the thorax, an ...
).
Other taxa named ''karamani'' are labeled after his son
Gordan S. Karaman, also a
carcinologist
A carcinologist is a scientist who studies crustaceans or is otherwise involved in carcinology
Carcinology is a branch of zoology that consists of the study of crustaceans, a group of arthropods that includes lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill, ...
.
Publications
* Pisces Macedoniae, Split 1924 pp. 90
* Komarci Dalmacije i njihovo suzbijanje.- Glasnik Ministarstva narodnog zdravlja, Institut za proucavanje i suzbijanje malarije Trogir, Split, 1925, pp. 1–40.
References
*Tjärnö Marine Biological Laboratory
Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names*Karaman, Ivo (2003): ''Macedonethes stankoi'' n. sp., a rhithral oniscidean isopod (Isopoda: Oniscidea: Trichoniscidae) from Macedonia. ''Organisms Diversity & Evolution'' 3(3): Electronic Supplement 8: 1-15
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1889 births
1959 deaths
Carcinologists
Scientists from Sarajevo
Yugoslav zoologists
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