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. Taxa named in his honour. The following taxa were created in his honour. Most are parasites of fish. Numerous species of monogeneans , including "Absonifibula bychowskyi" , "Caniongiella bychowskyi" , "Cribromazocraes bychowskyi" , "Dicrumenia bychowskyi" , "Dionchus bychowskyi" , "Euryhaliotrema bychowskyi" , "Gyrodactyloides bychowskii" , "Gyrodactylus bychowskyi" , "Heterobothrium bychowskyi" , "Mazocraeoides bychowskyi" , "Mexicana bychowskyi" , "Mexicotrema bychowskyi" , "Murraytrema bychowskyi" , "Murraytrematoides bychowskii" , "Neohaliotrema bychowskii" , "Neoheterocotyle bychowskyi" , "Neotetraonchus bychowskyi" , "Osphyobothrus bychowskyi" , "Pseudaxinoides bychowskyi" , "Pseudodiplectanum bychowskii" , digeneans such as "Genolopa bychowskii" , "Hysterogonia bychowskii" , and "Phyllodistomum borisbychowskyi" , parasitic isopods such as "Cymothoa bychowskyi" and parasitic copepods such as "Lepeophtheirus bychowskyi" , and the Microsporidia "Glugea bychowsky" . In addition to all these fish parasites, the biting midge "Culicoides bychowskyi" (Ceratopogonidae, Diptera) was also named after Bychowsky.