Alexandr Vladimirovich Gussev

Alexandr Vladimirovich Gussev
Native name Александр Владимирович Гусев
Born (1917-07-05)5 July 1917
Korocha, Russia
Died 31 December 1999(1999-12-31) (aged 82)
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Nationality Russian
Fields Parasitology, Helminthology
Institutions Russian Academy of Sciences, Leningrad

Alexandr Vladimirovich Gussev (Александр Владимирович Гусев, 5 July 1917 – 31 December 1999), sometimes spelled Gusev in the literature, was a Russian helminthologist specialist of monogeneans.[1][2]

Gussev was a student of the soviet parasitologist V. A. Dogiel. He worked at the Zoological Institute in Leningrad, then Saint Petersburg, Russia. He received his PhD in 1953 and his DrSc in 1973. Gussev wrote more than 220 publications, dealing with systematics, faunistics, morphology, development, biology and zoogeography of fish parasites.

Gussev is mainly known for his work on the Monogenea, a group of Platyhelminthes parasitic on freshwater and marine fish. He was one of the world leader in this field and described more than 200 new species of monogeneans. He also authored a handbook on methods of collecting monogeneans.[3]

Honours

Political engagement

Gussev protested against the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Soviet forces in 1968.[1]

Taxa named on his honour

Although a simple transliteration of his name in Russian (Гусев) is Gusev (with a single s), the pronunciation in Russian is Gussev (as with two s) and citations in the Western literature generally use this spelling. Hence, the many taxa created in the honour of Gussev are usually named gussevi.[4] The list of species includes Ancyrocephalus gussevi Dontsov, 1972, Bravohollisia gussevi Lim, 1995, Calydiscoides gussevi Oliver, 1984, Cosmetocleithrum gussevi Kritsky, Thatcher & Boeger, 1986, Dactylogyroides gussevi Hossain, Chandra & Mohanta, 2001, Dactylogyroides gussevia Singh, Anuradha & Arya, 2003, Diplozoon gussevi Glaser & Glaser, 1964, Dogielius gussevi Singh & Jain, 1988, Gyrodactyloides gussevi Bychowsky & Polyansky, 1953, Lamellodiscus gussevi Sanfilippo, 1978, Ligophorus gussevi Miroshnichenko & Maltsev, 2004, Mazocraes gussevi Agrawal & Sharma, 1989, Microcotyle gussevi Gupta & Krishna, 1980, Protogyrodactylus gussevi Bychowsky & Nagibina, 1974, Silurodiscoides gussevi Singh, Kumari & Agrawal, 1992, Trianchoratus gussevi Lim, 1987. All these species names designate monogeneans. However, the species names Lepeophtheirus gusevi Moon & Kim, 2012, a copepod, and Neopavlovskioides gusevi Rodyuk, 1986, a monogenean, are based on the spelling with a single s.

Gussev is also honoured by a genus name, Gussevia Kohn & Paperna, 1964.[5] Gussevia was considered a junior synonym of Urocleidoides Mizelle and Price, 1964 by Kritsky and Thatcher in 1983 [6] but was resurrected [7] and is now valid. Gussevia is a genus of monogenean parasites of Neotropical cichlid fishes.[7]

List of principal works

Dactylogyrus baueri Gussev, 1955, a species of dactylogyrid Monogenea described by Gussev

This is list from a webpage in the Zoological Institute of Saint Peterburg.[8] (note the use of 'Gusev' - with single s).

References

  1. 1 2 Kabata, Zbigniew (1996). "Profile: Alexander Vladimirovich Gusev". Systematic Parasitology 33 (1): 77–78. doi:10.1007/BF00009722. ISSN 0165-5752.
  2. ↑ Kabata, Zbigniew (2001). "Alexandr Vladimirich [sic] Gusev 1917–1999". Journal of Parasitology 87 (1): 134–134. doi:10.1645/0022-3395(2001)087[0134:AVG]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0022-3395.
  3. ↑ Gussev, A. V. (1983). Методика сбора и обработки материала по моногенеям, паразитирующим у рыб [Methods for collection and preparation of monogeneans parasitizing fish] (in Russian). Leningrad: Nauka. DJVU File
  4. ↑ Index of Organism Names (ION) search for 'Gussev*'
  5. ↑ Kohn, A., and Paperna, I. 1964. Monogenetic trematodes from aquarium fishes. Revista Brasileira de Biologia 24, 145-149.
  6. ↑ Kritsky, D C; Thatcher, V E (1983). "Neotropical Monogenea. 5. Five new species from the Aruana, Osteoglossum bicirrosum Vandelli, a freshwater teleost from Brazil, with the proposal of Gonodeithrum n. gen. (Dactylogyridae: Ancyrocephalinae)". Proceedings of The Biological Society of Washington 96: 581–597.
  7. 1 2 Kritsky, D. C., Thatcher, V. E., a Boeger, W. A. 1986. Neotropical Monogenea. 8. Revision of Urocleidoides (Dactylogyridae, Ancyrocephalinae). Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington, 53, 1-37 PDF
  8. ↑ Список основных публикаций А.В. Гусева list

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