Vladimir Mitrofanovich Arnoldi (russian: Влади́мир Митрофа́нович Арно́льди) ( Kozlov (Michurinsk),

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...

(1871–1924)) was a Russian professor of

biology Biology is the scientific study of life. It is a natural science with a broad scope but has several unifying themes that tie it together as a single, coherent field. For instance, all organisms are made up of cells that process hereditary i ...

. He was a Corresponding Member of

Russian Academy of Sciences The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across t ...

and scientifically listed a number of valuable plants of

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. He lived in the Russian city of Tambov for much of his life. His son Konstantin Arnoldi became a prominent

entomologist Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...

. He is honoured in the name of ''

Arnoldiella ''Arnoldiella'' is a genus of green algae in the family Pithophoraceae Pithophoraceae is a family of green algae in the order Cladophorales Cladophorales are an order of green algae, in the class Ulvophyceae The Ulvophyceae or ulvophytes ...

'', which is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...

green algae The green algae (singular: green alga) are a group consisting of the Prasinodermophyta and its unnamed sister which contains the Chlorophyta and Charophyta/Streptophyta. The land plants (Embryophytes) have emerged deep in the Charophyte alga as ...

in the family

Pithophoraceae Pithophoraceae is a family of green algae in the order Cladophorales Cladophorales are an order of green algae, in the class Ulvophyceae The Ulvophyceae or ulvophytes are a class of green algae, distinguished mainly on the basis of ultras ...

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1871 births 1924 deaths 20th-century Russian botanists Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1917–1925) Academic staff of Moscow State University 19th-century botanists from the Russian Empire {{biologist-stub