Yuri M. Marusik

Yuri Mikhailovitch Marusik
Born (1962-05-13) May 13, 1962 (age 62)
Sarny, Ukraine
CitizenshipRussia
Alma materLeningrad State University
Scientific career
FieldsArachnology
Author abbrev. (zoology)Marusik

Yuri Mikhailovitch Marusik (born 13 May 1962) is a Russian arachnologist.

Early life and education

Marusik was born in Sarny, a small town in West Ukraine, to Mikhail Adamovich, a school teacher, and Tamara Andreevna, a nurse. His interest in zoology started at an early age, from reading books about animals. Marusik started his studies at Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) State University in 1979 where he specialized in entomology under the supervision of Victor P. Tyshchenko. After his graduation in 1984, Marusik was accepted into a Ph.D. program in Magadan, working in the lab of Daniil I. Berman. His Ph.D. dissertation (1988) was devoted to fauna, population structure and spatial distribution of spiders in the upper reaches of the Kolyma River, northeastern Siberia.[1][2]

Contributions to arachnology

Marusik has published over 500 scientific papers dealing with taxonomy, systematics, faunistics and the biogeography of spiders and other invertebrates.[3] He has described two subfamilies and over 50 genera and 700 species of spiders,[4][5] several of them named after celebrities: Filistata maguirei and Pritha garfieldi were named after the former Spider-Man actors Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield,[6] Labialithus lindemanni was named after Till Lindemann, the lead vocalist and lyricist of the band Rammstein,[7] Gorbiscape gorbachevi was named after the Russian and Soviet politician Mikhail Gorbachev,[8] Loureedia phoenixi was named after the actor Joaquin Phoenix,[9] and Loxosceles coheni was named after the singer-songwriter, poet and novelist Leonard Cohen.[10]

Selected publications

Books

  • Marusik, Y. M. & Kovblyuk, M. M. (2011): Spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of Siberia and Russian Far East. KMK Scientific Press, Moscow, 344 pp. [in Russian] PDF
  • Gerlach, J. & Marusik, Y. M. (2010): Arachnida and Myriapoda of the Seychelles Islands. Siri Scientific Press, Rochdale, 435 pp.
  • Logunov, D. V. & Marusik, Y. M. (2003): A revision of the genus Yllenus Simon, 1868 (Arachnida, Araneae, Salticidae). KMK Scientific Press, Moscow, 167 pp. PDF
  • Logunov, D. V. & Marusik, Y. M. (2001): Catalogue of the jumping spiders of northern Asia (Arachnida, Araneae, Salticidae). KMK Scientific Press, Moscow, 300 pp. PDF
  • Marusik, Y. M., Logunov, D. V. & Koponen, S. (2000): Spiders of Tuva, south Siberia. Institute for Biological Problems of the North, Magadan, 253 pp. PDF

References

  1. ^ Zhang, J.; Mikhailov, K. G.; Koponen, S.; Long, F.; Yu, H.; Li, S. (13 May 2022). "Forty-two years of scientific research on eight legs—celebrating the 60th birthday of Dr Yuri M. Marusik". ZooKeys (1100): 87–101. Bibcode:2022ZooK.1100...87Z. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1100.85374. PMC 9848612. PMID 36760390. This article incorporates text from this source, which is available under the CC BY 4.0 license.
  2. ^ "Yuri Marusik".
  3. ^ "Yuri M. Marusik". Retrieved 2023-08-27.
  4. ^ "NMBE - World Spider Catalog".
  5. ^ "NMBE - World Spider Catalog".
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ "On two enigmatic spiders (Araneae: Cybaeidae & Phrurolithidae) from the Russian Far East". Retrieved 2023-08-27.
  8. ^ Zamani, Alireza; Marusik, Yuri M. (March 2020). "A review of Agelenini (Araneae: Agelenidae: Ageleninae) of Iran and Tajikistan, with descriptions of four new genera". Arachnology. 18 (4): 368–386. doi:10.13156/arac.2020.18.4.368. S2CID 214702963.
  9. ^ "'Joker' Spider Named After Joaquin Phoenix".
  10. ^ "New-To-Science Spider Named After Leonard Cohen". 21 December 2020.
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