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
- The future of zoological taxonomy is integrative, not minimalist (2022)
- Systematics and Biodiversity
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - The global spread of misinformation on spiders (2022)
- Current Biology
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Amateur venom-extraction business may hasten extinction of scorpionsThree new species of spiders (Aranei) from Iran (2021)
- Arachnologische Mitteilungen: Arachnology LettersCaucasian Entomological Bulletin
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A new genus and ten new species of spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) from Iran (2021)
- ZooKeys
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A new species of Draconarius Ovtchinnikov, 1999 (Araneae, Agelenidae) from northeastern PakistanTwo new species of Theridiidae from Iran, and the revalidation of Enoplognatha submargarita Yaginuma & Zhu, 1992 (Arachnida: Araneae) (2021)
- Evolutionary Systematics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - 'Burning Violin': The Medically Important Spider Genus Loxosceles (Araneae: Sicariidae) in Iran, Turkmenistan, and Afghanistan, With Two New SpeciesA black sheep in Eresus (Araneae: Eresidae): taxonomic notes on the ladybird spiders of Iran and Turkey, with a new species (2021)
- Journal of Medical EntomologyZootaxa
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Further studies on harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones) from Iran, with the descriptions of two new speciesA new and easternmost species of Loureedia (Aranei: Eresidae) from Iran (2021)
- ZootaxaArthropoda Selecta
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), part VIIIA new species of wolf spiders of the genus Lycosa (Aranei: Lycosidae) from Iran (2021)
- Zoosystematica Rossica
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - New taxa of six families of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Iran (2021)
- Zoology in the Middle EastArachnology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - One new genus and nineteen new species of ground spiders (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from Iran, with other taxonomic considerations (2021)
- European Journal of Taxonomy
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Revision of the spider family Zodariidae (Arachnida, Araneae) in Iran and Turkmenistan, with seventeen new species‘Conundrum of esoterica’: on the long-forgotten genus Eutittha Thorell, 1878, with new taxonomic considerations in Cheiracanthium C. L. Koch, 1839 (Araneae: Cheiracanthiidae) (2021)
- ZooKeys
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - (2021)
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Two new species of Liocranidae (Arachnida: Aranei) from the Caucasus and northern Iran (2021)
- Arthropoda Selecta
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - (2021)
- Arachnology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - (2020)
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - (2020)
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - (2020)
- Zoosystematica Rossica
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A review of Agelenini (Araneae: Agelenidae: Ageleninae) of Iran and Tajikistan, with descriptions of four new genera (2020)
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A survey of Phrurolithidae (Arachnida: Araneae) in southern Caucasus, Iran and Central Asia (2020)
- Zootaxa
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - (2020)
- Journal of Natural History
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)