Michael Saaristo

Michael I. Saaristo (1938 – 27 April 2008) was a Finnish arachnologist, with a particular interest in the spiders of the Seychelles.[1] The World Spider Catalog lists 61 genus names or synonyms and 109 species names or synonyms of which he is the sole or co-author.[2][3]

Michael Saaristo
Born1938
Died2008 (2009) (aged 70)
NationalityFinnish
Scientific career
FieldsArachnology
InstitutionsZoological Museum, University of Turku
Author abbrev. (zoology)Saaristo

His account of the spiders of the Seychelles was published in 2010, after his death, with the assistance of Yuri M. Marusik.[4]

The spider genera Saaristoa[5] and Saaristattus[6] were named after him. The World Spider Catalog lists 15 species with the specific name saaristoi, honouring him.[7]

References
  1. Matyot, Pat (19 May 2008), "Island Conservation—Remembering the spider fanatic who loved Seychelles – Michael Saaristo (1938-2008)", Seychelles Nation, archived from the original on 2 April 2017, retrieved 2017-03-02
  2. "Genus author query for Saaristo", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2017-04-02
  3. "Species author query for Saaristo", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2017-04-02
  4. Saaristo, M.I. (2010), "Araneae", in Gerlach, J. & Marusik, Y. (eds.), Arachnida and Myriapoda of the Seychelles islands, Manchester, UK: Siri Scientific Press, pp. 8–306, ISBN 978-0-9558636-8-4
  5. Millidge, A.F. (1978), "The genera Saaristoa n.gen. and Metapanamomops Millidge (Araneae: Linyphiidae)", Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society, 4: 123
  6. Logunov, Dmitri V. & Azarkina, Galina N. (2008), "Two new genera and species of Euophryinae (Aranei: Salticidae) from SE Asia" (PDF), Arthropoda Selecta, 17 (1–2): 111–115, retrieved 2017-04-02
  7. "Species name query for saaristoi", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2017-04-02


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