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Nikolai Liutsianovich Orlov

Russian herpetologist (born 1952) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Nikolai Liutsianovich Orlov (Russian: Николай Люцианович Орлов; born 12 June 1952) is a Soviet and Russian herpetologist and researcher of the herpetofauna of Southeast Asia, particularly northern Annam.

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Biography

From 1970 to 1978 he worked in the Department of Herpetology of the Leningrad Zoo. Since 1978 he has been employed at the Laboratory of Ornithology and Herpetology of the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (now the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences).

In 1985 he graduated from the Leningrad Pedagogical Institute. In 1997 he became a junior research associate, and by 2021 he was a leading researcher at the Zoological Institute of the RAS.

In 2006 he defended his Candidate of Biological Sciences dissertation on the topic “Fauna of Amphibians of Vietnam: Distribution, Taxonomic and Ecological Diversity,” supervised by I. S. Darevsky.[1]

Membership in scientific societies

  • A. M. Nikolsky Herpetological Society (since 2000; Presidium member since 2015)[2]
  • Societas Europaea Herpetologica (European Herpetological Society)[3]

Editorial board memberships

  • Russian Journal of Herpetology[4]
  • Modern Herpetology (Современная герпетология)[5]
  • Asian Herpetological Research (AHR)[6]
  • RusTerra Magazine
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Taxa named in his honour

Taxa described

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