Alireza Zamani
Ph.D.
alireza.zamani@utu.fi Office: 163 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8084-9666 |
Arachnology; Evolutionary Biology; Taxonomy; Systematics; Faunistics
I am an arachnologist with expertise in spider systematics and biogeography, primarily specializing in the fauna of the Caucasus, Middle East, and Central Asia. Over the course of my career, I have described and named more than 200 arachnid taxa from various countries across South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. This research contributes to our understanding of arachnid diversity, as well as their geographical distribution patterns and evolutionary relationships. Additionally, I have actively contributed to research projects and published papers in other fields such as functional morphology, phylogeography, ecology, and theoretical concepts of taxonomy.
Arachnids of Finland
- A new species of Tegenaria Latreille, 1804 (Araneae: Agelenidae) from western Iran (2018)
- Zootaxa
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Description of a new pseudoscorpion, Parolpium litoreum sp. n. (Pseudoscorpiones: Olpiidae) from southern Islands of Iran (2018)
- Arthropoda Selecta
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Filling the gap of whip spider distribution in Asia: Phrynichus persicus sp n. (Arachnida, Amblypygi), a new Phrynichidae from Iran (2018)
- Zootaxa
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - New species and records of Filistatidae (Arachnida: Aranei) from Iran (2018)
- Arthropoda Selecta
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The first report on the spider fauna (Arachnida: Araneae) of the lut desert, Iran (2018)
- Acta Arachnologica
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The spider genus Pterotricha in Iran, with the description of a new genus (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) (2018)
- ZooKeys
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The spider genus Pterotricha Kulczyński, 1903 (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) in the United Arab Emirates (2018)
- Evolutionary Systematics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A checklist of subterranean arthropods of Iran (2017)
- Subterranean Biology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Additions to the crab spider fauna of Iran (Araneae: Thomisidae) Ergänzungen zur krabbenspinnenfauna des Iran (Araneae: Thomisidae) (2017)
- Arachnologische Mitteilungen: Arachnology Letters
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A new species of burrowing wolf spiders (Araneae: Lycosidae: Lycosa) from Iran (2017)
- Zootaxa
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)



