Konstantin Alekseevich Satunin

Konstantin Satunin
Born 20 May 1863
Yaroslavl, Russian empire
Died 10 November 1915
Mtskheta, Georgia
Citizenship Russian
Fields Zoology
Institutions Caucasus Sericultural Station
Known for His research on the mammals of Russia and Central Asia
Author abbrev. (zoology) Satunin

Konstantin Alekseevich Satunin (1863–1915) was a Russian zoologist who studied and described many mammals found in Russia and Central Asia.

Satunin graduated from Moscow University in 1890. From 1893 he worked at a sericulture station in the Caucasus. He became a senior specialist at the Department of Agriculture in 1907, concentrating on applied zoology and hunting in the Caucasus. He continued in this post until his death in 1915. He principally studied the mammals of Russia and Central Asia and he was responsible for describing many new species. He published many works on the fauna of the Caucasus, mainly in the field of mammalogy but also entomology, herpetology, ichthyology, ornithology, sericulture, zoogeography, game management science and fishing.[1]

References

  1. The Free Dictionary
  2. "The Code Online". International Council of Zoological Nomenclature.
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