Zhou Wei (; born June 1957) is a Chinese

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 ...

, professor at Southwest Forestry College. Zhou was born in June 1957. He received his Ph.D. degree from

Yunnan University Yunnan University (, Acronym: YNU) is a national key university in Yunnan Province, China. Its main campuses are located in the provincial capital city of Kunming. Founded in December 1922, Yunnan University started to enroll in April 1923. It ...

in 2004. Zhou worked at

Chinese Academy of Sciences The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); ), known by Academia Sinica in English until the 1980s, is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for natural sciences. It has historical origins in the Academia Sinica during the Republ ...

Zoology Institute at

Kunming Kunming (; ), also known as Yunnan-Fu, is the capital and largest city of Yunnan province, China. It is the political, economic, communications and cultural centre of the province as well as the seat of the provincial government. The headquar ...

from 1982 to 1996, and joined the faculty of Southwest Forestry College in 1996. Zhou has published 10 SCI articles, discovering 25 new species of fishes.

Taxon described by him

*See :Taxa named by Zhou Wei (zoologist)

References

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