Nikolai Liutsianovich Orlov


Nikolai Liutsianovich Orlov is a Soviet and Russian herpetologist and researcher of the herpetofauna of Southeast Asia, particularly northern Annam.

Biography

From 1970 to 1978 he worked in the Department of Herpetology of the Leningrad Zoo.
Since 1978 he has been employed at the Laboratory of Ornithology and Herpetology of the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
In 1985 he graduated from the Leningrad Pedagogical Institute.
In 1997 he became a junior research associate, and by 2021 he was a leading researcher at the Zoological Institute of the RAS.
In 2006 he defended his Candidate of Biological Sciences dissertation on the topic “Fauna of Amphibians of Vietnam: Distribution, Taxonomic and Ecological Diversity,” supervised by Ilya S. Darevsky.

Membership in scientific societies

Editorial board memberships

Russian Journal of HerpetologyModern Herpetology Asian Herpetological Research
  • ''RusTerra Magazine''

Taxa named in his honour

Rhacophorus orlovi Vipera orlovi

Taxa described

Amolops spinapectoralisBoiga bengkuluensisBoiga tanahjampeanaBoiga ranawaneiCalamaria abramoviCyrtodactylus phuocbinhensisCyrtodactylus puhuensisCyrtodactylus taynguyenensisDiploderma ngoclinenseGekko ulikovskiiGloydius angusticepsGoniurosaurus bawanglingensisGoniurosaurus huuliensisGonydactylus markuscombaiiGonydactylus martinstolliGoniurosaurus murphyiGracixalus supercornutusHebius leucomystaxKurixalus ananjevaeKurixalus baliogasterLeptobrachium banaeLeptobrachium ngoclinhenseLeptobrachium xanthospilumLeptolalax nahangensisLeptolalax pyrrhopsLeptolalax sungiLeptolalax tuberosusMicrohyla arboricolaMicrohyla darevskiiMicrohyla minutaMicrohyla pineticolaMicrohyla pulchellaNatrix megalocephalaOphryophryne elfinaOpisthotropis daovantieniProtobothrops maolanensisProtobothrops sieversorumProtobothrops trungkhanhensisScincella darevskiiScincella devoratorScincella raraSphenomorphus cryptotisSphenomorphus tetradactylusSphenomorphus yersiniTriceratolepidophisTropidophorus boehmeiTropidophorus latiscutatusTropidophorus matsuiiTropidophorus murphyiRana attiguaRana bacboensisRana banaorumRana daorumRana hmongorumRana megatympanumRana morafkaiRana trankieni