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
- Further spider (Arachnida: Araneae) material deposited in Agricultural Zoology Museum of Iran (AZMI), Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection (2017)
- Arachnologische Mitteilungen: Arachnology Letters
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), Part IV (2017)
- Acta Arachnologica
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), Part V (2017)
- Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics (IJAB)
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - On two poorly known Eurasian dictynid species (Aranei: Dictynidae), with a description of a new genus (2017)
- Arthropoda Selecta
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Six new species of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Iran (2017)
- Oriental Insects
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The spider genus Oecobius in Iran, with description of two new species (Araneae: Oecobiidae) (2017)
- Oriental Insects
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A new species and new distribution records of Zaitunia from Iran (Araneae: Filistatidae) (2016)
- Zoology in the Middle East
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A new species of Paratheuma (Araneae: Dictynidae) from Southwestern Asia and transfer of the genus (2016)
- Zoology in the Middle East
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A new species of Sahastata from southern Iran (Aranei: Filistatidae) (2016)
- Vestnik zoologii
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A new species of Spariolenus from South Iran (Aranei: Sparassidae) (2016)
- Arthropoda Selecta
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A study on the spider fauna of Dargaz and Kalat Counties in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran (Arachnida: Araneae) (2016)
- Biharean Biologist
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A survey of Hersiliidae (Arachnida: Araneae) of Iran with description of one new genus and two new species (2016)
- Journal of Natural History
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - First record of Filistata lehtineni Marusik & Zonstein, 2014 for the fauna of Iran (Araneae: Filistatidae) (2016)
- Biharean Biologist
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Aranei), part III (2016)
- Arthropoda Selecta
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - New faunistic records of spiders (Araneae) from Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran (2016)
- Zoology and Ecology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - On the genus Cebrennus Simon, 1880 in Iran with description of a new species from Iranian Central Desert (Araneae: Sparassidae) (2016)
- Zootaxa
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The Field Guide of Spiders and Scorpions of Iran (2016) Zamani A.
(D5 Text book, professional manual or guide or dictionary ) - Additional new species of Filistatidae (Aranei) from Iran (2015)
- Arthropoda Selecta
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Annotated checklist of the spiders of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae) (2015)
- Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics (IJAB)
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A survey of cave-dwelling spider fauna of Kohgiluyeh & Boyer-Ahmad and Fars Provinces, Iran (Arachnida: Araneae) (2015)
- Revista Ibérica de Aracnología
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)



