Karl Grobben


Karl Grobben was an Austrian zoologist. He graduated from, and later worked at, the University of Vienna, chiefly on molluscs and crustaceans. He was also the editor of a new edition of Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus' Lehrbuch der Zoologie, and the coiner of the terms protostome and deuterostome.

Taxonomy

Taxa named by Grobben include:
  • Eumalacostraca Grobben, 1892
  • Sagittidae Claus & Grobben, 1905
  • Sagittoidea Claus & Grobben, 1905
  • Protostomia Grobben, 1908
  • Deuterostomia Grobben, 1908
Taxa named in Grobben's honour include: