Johannes Govertus de Man

Johannes Govertus de Man (2 May 1850 in Middelburg – 9 January 1930 in Middelburg), was a Dutch biologist.{{cite web |url=http://www.tmbl.gu.se/libdb/taxon/personetymol/petymol.m.html |title=Johannes (Jan) Govertus de Man |work=Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names |publisher=University of Gothenburg |author=Hans G. Hansson |accessdate=June 4, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205205939/http://www.tmbl.gu.se/libdb/taxon/personetymol/petymol.m.html |archive-date=February 5, 2012 |url-status=dead }} He was assistant curator at the {{Lang|nl|Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie}} (Dutch for national natural history museum) in Leiden, where he specialised in free-living nematodes and decapod crustaceans, although he also wrote papers on flatworms, sipunculids and, in his dissertation only, vertebrates. His change away from vertebrates disappointed the director of the museum, and de Man left his job there after eleven years. For the rest of his life, de Man worked at his parents' house in Middelburg and later at a house near the shore at Yerseke in the Oosterschelde estuary, relying on his family's private income.

Taxa named after de Man

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Taxa named by de Man

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De Man described many new taxa in his lifetime, mostly for crustaceans and nematodes. His crustacean taxa include 30 genera and 523 new species, while his nematode taxa comprise 8 new families, 61 new genera and 239 new species.{{Cite web |url=http://www.ifns.org/membership/community/profiles.html |work=Role Models in Nematology |title=Dr. Johannes Govertus de Man (1850-1930), a Dutch pioneer of nematode taxonomy |publisher=International Federation of Nematology Societies |year=2010 |accessdate=May 12, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726172635/http://www.ifns.org/membership/community/profiles.html |archive-date=July 26, 2011 |url-status=usurped }} Taxa described by de Man include:

Further reading

  • {{cite book |author=Gerrit Karssen |year=2006 |title=Life and Work of Dr. J. G. de Man, a Crustacea and Nematoda Specialist |publisher=Brill |location=Leiden, Netherlands |isbn=978-90-04-14969-4}}

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