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Nikolai Zarudny

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Nikolai Alekseyvich Zarudny (Russian:Николай Алексеевич Зарудный;^{[note 1]} 13 September 1859 – 17 March 1919^[1]) was aUkrainian-Russian explorer and zoologist who studied the flora and fauna ofCentral Asia.

He was born in Gryakovo,Kharkov Governorate,Russian Empire (now inPoltava Oblast ofUkraine). He wrote his firstornithology book in 1896 and made five expeditions in the Caspian region between 1884 and 1892.^[1] He led other expeditions toPersia supported by theRussian Geographical Society and theZoological Museum of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He collected nearly 3,140 specimens of birds and 50,000 insects. After theRussian Revolution, his collection wasnationalized by theBolsheviks and moved to the museum at theUniversity of Tashkent. For his work, theRussian Geographical Society awarded him the Przhevalsky Medal.^[2] His last work on the ornithology ofTurkestan region was not completed as he died of accidental poisoning. He published 218 monographs in the course of his life and named manyspecies.^[2]

Eponymous taxa

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Among the species and othertaxa named after Zarudny are

Eumeces schneiderii zarudnyi,^[3]
Zarudny's jird,
Zarudny's rock shrew,
Zarudny's worm lizard,^[3]
The Freshwater fishSchizothorax zarudnyi(Nikolskii 1897)^[4]
and the distinctive Asiansubspecies of thedesert sparrow (Passer simplex zarudnyi).^[5]

Footnotes

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^Russian:Николай Алексеевич Зарудный,romanized:Nikolay Alekseevich Zarudny. His name has been transliterated a number of other ways; especially withSarudny orSarudney in older works.

References

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^^a ^bPalmer, T. S. (1920)."Notes and News"(PDF).Auk.37 (4): 638.
^^a ^bAnanjeva, Natalia (7 April 2008)."Zarudniǐ, Nikolaĭ Alekseevich". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.).Encyclopædia Iranica.
^^a ^bBeolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011).The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp.ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Zarudnyi", p. 293).
^Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018)."Order CYPRINIFORMES: Family CYPRINIDAE: Subfamilies ACROSSOCHEILINAE, BARBINAE, SPINIBARBINAE, SCHIZOTHORACINAE, SCHIZOPYGOPSINAE and Incertae sedis".The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved27 April 2022.
^Kirwan, Guy M.; Schweitzer, Manuel; Ayé, Raffael; Grieve, Andrew (2009)."Taxonomy, identification and status of Desert Sparrows"(PDF).Dutch Birding.31:139–158. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 24 October 2012.