Boris Bychowsky

Boris Yevseyevich Bychowsky (Борис Евсеевич Быховский, 27 August 1908 – 26 January 1974) was a Soviet scientist and parasitologist, specialist of fish parasites, especially monogeneans. He was director of the Institute of Zoology of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union in Leningrad (1962–1974). Bychowsky is the author of more than 100 scientific publications, mostly on systematics of monogeneans. His most famous work was his monography on monogeneans (1957), which was translated into English in 1961.

Education

• 1930: graduated from the biology department of Physics and Mathematics Faculty of Leningrad State University
• 1935: PhD in biological sciences
• 1956: Habilitation in biological sciences

Career

• 1929–1935: Laboratory of fish diseases Institute of Fisheries (Leningrad);
• 1935–1940: Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union
• 1940–1944: Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Tajikistan Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union
• 1942–1962: Deputy director of the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union in Leningrad
• 1962–1974: Director of the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union

Honours

• 1963: Academician-Secretary of the Department of General Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union
• 1964: Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union
• Order of Lenin
• Order of the Red Banner of Labour

Taxa named in his honour

The following taxa were created in his honour. Most are parasites of fish.

Family:

• Bychowskicotylidae <small>Lebedev, 1969</small>

Genera:

• Bychowskicotyle <small>Lebedev, 1969</small>
• Bychowskya <small>Nagibina, 1968</small>
• Bychowskyella <small>Akhmerov, 1952</small>, including Bychowskyella bychowskii <small>Gusev, 1977</small> (both genus and species names dedicated to Bychowsky)
• Bychowskymonogenea <small>Caballero & Bravo-Hollis, 1972</small>

Species:

Numerous species of monogeneans, including Absonifibula bychowskyi <small>Lawler & Overstreet, 1976</small>, Caniongiella bychowskyi <small>Lebedev, 1976</small>, Cribromazocraes bychowskyi <small>Mamaev, 1981</small>, Dicrumenia bychowskyi <small>Mamaev, 1969</small>, Dionchus bychowskyi <small>Timofeeva, 1989</small>, Euryhaliotrema bychowskyi <small>(Obodnikova, 1976) Kritsky & Boeger, 2002</small>, Gyrodactyloides bychowskii <small>Albova, 1948</small>, Gyrodactylus bychowskyi <small>(Albova, 1948)</small>, Heterobothrium bychowskyi <small>Ogawa, 1991</small>, Mazocraeoides bychowskyi <small>Caballero & Caballero, 1976</small>, Mexicana bychowskyi <small>Caballero & Bravo-Hollis, 1959</small>, Mexicotrema bychowskyi <small>Lamothe-Argumedo, 1969</small>, Murraytrema bychowskyi <small>Oliver, 1987</small>, Murraytrematoides bychowskii <small>(Nagibina, 1976) Oliver, 1987</small>, Neohaliotrema bychowskii <small>Zhukov, 1976</small>, Neoheterocotyle bychowskyi <small>(Timofeeva, 1981) Chisholm, 1994</small>, Neotetraonchus bychowskyi <small>Bravo-Hollis, 1968</small>, Osphyobothrus bychowskyi <small>Khoche & Chauhan, 1969</small>, Pseudaxinoides bychowskyi <small>Lebedev, 1977</small>, Pseudodiplectanum bychowskii <small>Nagibina, 1977</small>, digeneans such as Genolopa bychowskii <small>Zhukov, 1977</small>, Hysterogonia bychowskii <small>Korotaeva, 1972</small>, and Phyllodistomum borisbychowskyi <small>Caballero y Caballero, 1969</small>, parasitic isopods such as Cymothoa bychowskyi <small>Avdeev, 1979</small> and parasitic copepods such as Lepeophtheirus bychowskyi <small>Gusev, 1951</small>, and the Microsporidia Glugea bychowsky <small>Gasimagomedov & Issi, 1970</small>. In addition to all these fish parasites, the biting midge Culicoides bychowskyi <small>Dzhafarov, 1964</small> (Ceratopogonidae, Diptera) was also named after Bychowsky.

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