Alireza Zamani
Alireza Zamani at the 2nd Iranian International Congress of Entomology, September 2017
Born (1994-01-11) January 11, 1994
Tehran, Iran
CitizenshipIran
Alma materUniversity of Tehran (B.Sc., M.Sc.)
Scientific career
FieldsArachnology
Author abbrev. (zoology)Zamani

Alireza Zamani (born 11 January 1994) is an Iranian arachnologist and taxonomist.[1][2]

Life and career

Zamani has been interested in spiders since childhood, when he spent most of his time collecting and rearing different species that he could collect from the family garden.[3] Influenced by his high school biology teacher, he decided to study animal biology at the University of Tehran in order to pursue his arachnological interests.[4]

Zamani has co-recorded over 430 new taxa for the fauna of Iran,[5][6] and has described over 150 new species of spiders, harvestmen, whip spiders and pseudoscorpions,[7][8][9][10] more noticeably Filistata maguirei and Pritha garfieldi of the family Filistatidae, named after the former Spider-Man actors Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield,[11][12] Lycosa aragogi of the family Lycosidae, named after Aragog, the fictional spider from the Harry Potter novel series by J. K. Rowling,[13] Loureedia phoenixi of the family Eresidae, named after the actor Joaquin Phoenix, for a color pattern which resembles the movie character Joker from D.C. Comics,[14] Scytodes kumonga of the family Scytodidae, named after the spider kaiju Kumonga, a recurring monster in the Godzilla franchise by Toho (Kumonga's scientific name in Godzilla Singular Point, Kumonga scytodes, pays homage to this species),[15][16] and Loxosceles coheni of the family Sicariidae, named after the singer-songwriter, poet and novelist Leonard Cohen.[17]

Zamani has authored The Field Guide of Spiders and Scorpions of Iran, which is the first field guide devoted to the arachnids of the Middle East, containing information on more than 230 species of both orders.[18] He is the senior author of the catalog of Iranian spiders and the country coordinator of Iran in the World Spider Catalog project.[19][20]

Eponymous taxa

  • Anthocharis gruneri zamanii Naderi & Back, 2019 (Lepidoptera: Pieridae)[21]
  • Tegenaria zamanii Marusik & Omelko, 2014 (Araneae: Agelenidae)[22]

Selected publications

Book

  • Zamani, A. (2016): The Field Guide of Spiders and Scorpions of Iran. Iranshenasi, 360 pp. [in Persian] Publisher's webpage

References

  1. ↑ "Alireza Zamani - Wikispecies". species.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 2016-09-18.
  2. ↑ "Iranian Cheetah Society | Three years with the WildTalk: Iranian marine mammals and spiders featured in the 23rd seminar". wildlife.ir. Retrieved 2016-09-18.
  3. ↑ "با مرد عنکبوتی ایران آشنا شوید".
  4. ↑ "مرد عنکبوتی ایران دنیا را چطور می‌بیند؟ - علمنا". Archived from the original on 2017-05-27. Retrieved 2017-05-13.
  5. ↑ Zamani, Alireza; Nikmagham, Zahra; Allahdadi, Maryam; Ghassemzadeh, Fereshteh; Mirshamsi, Omid (2014). "www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09397140.2014.970383?journalCode=tzme20#.VjNukG50MdU". Zoology in the Middle East. 60 (4): 362. doi:10.1080/09397140.2014.970383. S2CID 85240237.
  6. ↑ Zamani, Alireza; Mirshamsi, Omid; Jannesar, Behnaz; Marusik, Yuri M.; Esyunin, Sergei L. (2015). "www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21658005.2015.1068508?journalCode=tzec20". Zoology and Ecology. 25 (4): 339. doi:10.1080/21658005.2015.1068508.
  7. ↑ "NMBE - World Spider Catalog".
  8. ↑ https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4984.1.7
  9. ↑ https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4413.2.6
  10. ↑ "As_27_4_325_329".
  11. ↑ Marusik, Yuri M.; Zamani, Alireza (2015). "Additional new species of Filistatidae (Aranei) from Iran" (PDF). Arthropoda Selecta. 24 (4): 429–435. doi:10.15298/arthsel.24.4.05.
  12. ↑ Francisco, Mikael Angelo (October 27, 2015). "Two new spider species named after 'Spider-Man' actors". GMA News Online. Retrieved 2016-09-18.
  13. ↑ Feingold, Spencer (July 15, 2017). "One for the web: New spider species named for 'Harry Potter' arachnid". CNN.
  14. ↑ "'Joker' Spider Named After Joaquin Phoenix".
  15. ↑ "Kumonga | Wikizilla, the kaiju encyclopedia".
  16. ↑ "完全新作TVアニメシリーズ「ゴジラ シンギュラポイント Godzilla Singular Point」公式サイト".
  17. ↑ "New-To-Science Spider Named After Leonard Cohen".
  18. ↑ "NewsItem | انتشارات ایران شناسی | خرید آنلاین کتاب | ارسال کتاب | فروش آنلاین کتاب | فروشگاه اینترنتی کتاب". iran-shenasi.com. Retrieved 2016-09-18.
  19. ↑ "The Checklist of the Spiders of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae) --- Version 2016". spiders.ir. Retrieved 2016-09-18.
  20. ↑ "NMBE - World Spider Catalog". wsc.nmbe.ch. Retrieved 2016-09-18.
  21. ↑ Naderi, A. & Back, W. (2019): Description of a new subspecies of Anthocharis gruneri Herrich-Schäffer,[1851], Anthocharis gruneri zamanii ssp. n., from the Southeast of Iran, Kerman (Lepidoptera, Pieridae). Nachrichten des entomologischen Vereins Apollo 40
  22. ↑ Marusik, Yuri M.; Nadimi, Ahmad; Omelko, Mikhail M.; Koponen, Seppo (2014). "www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09397140.2014.943465". Zoology in the Middle East. 60 (3): 255. doi:10.1080/09397140.2014.943465. S2CID 85313641.
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