Alireza Zamani
Ph.D.
Areas of expertise
Arachnology; Evolutionary Biology; Taxonomy; Systematics; Faunistics
Arachnology; Evolutionary Biology; Taxonomy; Systematics; Faunistics
Biography
Research
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.
Teaching
Arachnids of Finland
Publications
- New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), part VIII (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 East
(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 (2021)
- ZooKeys
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Three new species of spiders (Aranei) from Iran (2021)
- Caucasian Entomological Bulletin
(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) - Two new species of Theridiidae from Iran, and the revalidation of Enoplognatha submargarita Yaginuma & Zhu, 1992 (Arachnida: Araneae) (2021)
- Arachnology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A black sheep in Eresus (Araneae: Eresidae): taxonomic notes on the ladybird spiders of Iran and Turkey, with a new species (2020)
- Zootaxa
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A new and easternmost species of Loureedia (Aranei: Eresidae) from Iran (2020)
- Arthropoda Selecta
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A new species of wolf spiders of the genus Lycosa (Aranei: Lycosidae) from Iran (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)
- Arachnology
(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) - ‘Conundrum of esoterica’: on the long-forgotten genus Eutittha Thorell, 1878, with new taxonomic considerations in Cheiracanthium C. L. Koch, 1839 (Araneae: Cheiracanthiidae) (2020)
- Journal of Natural History
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - New data on jumping spiders of Iran, with a new species of Salticus (Araneae: Salticidae) (2020)
- Arachnologische Mitteilungen: Arachnology Letters
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), Part VII (2020)
- Arachnology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - New species of Filistatidae, Palpimanidae and Scytodidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from southern Iran (2020)
- Acta Arachnologica
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - On Araniella and Neoscona (Araneae, Araneidae) of the Caucasus, Middle East and Central Asia (2020)
- ZooKeys
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Taxonomy of the genus Ischnocolus in the Middle East, with description of a new species from Oman and Iran (Araneae: Theraphosidae) (2020)
- Zoology in the Middle East
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The first description of the female of Heliophanus xerxesi Logunov, 2009 (Araneae: Salticidae) from Iran (2020)
- Revue Suisse de Zoologie
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The omission of critical data in the pursuit of ‘revolutionary’ methods to accelerate the description of species (2020)
- Systematic Entomology
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal)