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Rhynchocinetes balssi

Rhynchocinetes balssi

Classification

Heinrich Balss (3 June 1886 – 17 September 1957) was a German zoologist, specialising in Crustacea, especially decapods. He was the chief conservator at the Zoologische Staatssammlung ("State Zoology Collection") at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and wrote the sections on decapods and stomatopods in Heinrich Georg Bronn's seminal work Klassen und Ordnungen des Tierreichs ("Classes and Orders of the Animal Kingdom"). A number of taxa are named in his honor: Balssia Kemp, 1922 Podocallichirus balssi (Monod, 1935) Detocarcinus balssi (Monod, 1956) Trizocheles balssi (Stebbing, 1914)…

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Chile · 2