Vladyslav Ivanovych Monchenko (; 2 April 1932 â 8 February 2016) was a Ukrainian zoologist and ecologist, a prolific copepodologist. He was a full professor, and an Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
The 3 genera and 9 species of crustaceans are named in honour of V. I. Monchenko.
Moreover, in 2015 a minor land snail species from Madagascar, Boucardicus monchenkoi, was named in honour of Prof. Monchenko, who collected its first known specimen during expedition in 1991.