Delane C. Kritsky

Delane C. Kritsky
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Known forparasitology, Monogenea
Scientific career
FieldsParasitology
InstitutionsIdaho State University

Delane C. Kritsky is an American parasitologist who specialised on the Monogenea, a class of parasitic flatworms which are important ectoparasites of fishes. His research was mainly in the fields of taxonomy, faunistics, and phylogeny of the Monogenea.

He is one of the most prolific author in the field of systematics of Monogenea, with hundreds of species described,[1] and has co-authored a major, highly cited revision of the Monogenea in 1993.[2]

Career

Delane C. Kritsky earned his PhD degree in zoology from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1971.[3][4] He had his whole career in Idaho State University where he began in 1974 as an assistant professor, and became a full professor in 1983. He has been an administrator for much of his career: from 1979 to 1989 he was the chair of the Department of Allied Health Professions, was acting dean in 1985–1986, and associate dean from 1989 until his retirement.[4] He is still (2018) Emeritus Professor in Idaho State University.[5] He is a member of the editorial board of several journals of parasitology, including Zoologia[6] and Systematic Parasitology.[7]

Eponymous taxa

The digenean genus Kritsky Orélis-Ribeiro and Bullard, 2016 [8] and the monogenean genus Kritskyia Kohn, 1990 [9] were named in his honour. Several species of monogeneans were named in his honour, such as Bravohollisia kritskyi Lim, 1995,[10] Dactylogyrus kritskyi Mizelle & McDougal 1970,[11] Protogyrodactylus kritskyi Boeger, Diamanka, Pariselle & Patella 2012,[12] Pseudorhabdosynochus kritskyi Dyer, Williams & Bunkley-Williams, 1995,[13] Sciadicleithrum kritskyi Bellay, Takemoto, Yamada & Pavanelli, 2009[14] and Haliotrema kritskyi Vala, Maillard & Overstreet, 1982 [15] and a species of digeneans, Lissorchis kritskyi Barnhart & Powell 1979.[16]

References

  1. ^ "Delane C. Kritsky". BioNames. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  2. ^ Boeger, Walter A.; Kritsky, Delane C. (1993). "Phylogeny and a revised classification of the Monogenoidea Bychowsky, 1937 (Platyhelminthes)". Systematic Parasitology. 26 (1): 1–32. doi:10.1007/BF00009644. ISSN 0165-5752. S2CID 22851019.
  3. ^ Kritsky, Delane Charles (1971). Studies on the fine structure of the monogenetic trematode, Gyrodactylus eucaliae, Ikezaki and Hoffman, 1957. Thesis, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. p. 534.
  4. ^ a b "Kritsky, Delane". Parasites World. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
  5. ^ "Faculty and Staff - Health Education". Idaho State University. Archived from the original on 17 September 2018. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  6. ^ "Zoologia - Editorial Board". Pensoft. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  7. ^ "Systematic Parasitology - Editorial Board". Springer. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  8. ^ Orélis-Ribeiro, Raphael; Bullard, Stephen A. (2016). "Two new genera of fish blood flukes (Digenea: Aporocotylidae) from catfishes in the Peruvian Amazon" (PDF). Journal of Parasitology. 102 (3): 357–368. doi:10.1645/15-905. ISSN 0022-3395. PMID 26859799. S2CID 23836382.
  9. ^ Kohn, Anna (1990). "Kritskyia moraveci n. g., n. sp. (Monogenea: Dactylogyridae) from the urinary bladder and ureters of Rhamdia quelen (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) (Pisces: Pimelodidae) in Brazil". Systematic Parasitology. 17 (2): 81–85. doi:10.1007/BF00009794. ISSN 0165-5752. S2CID 43172581.
  10. ^ Lim, L. H. S. (1995). "Bravohollisia Bychowsky & Nagibina, 1970 and Caballeria Bychowsky & Nagibina, 1970 (Monogenea: Ancyrocephalidae) from Pomadasys hasta (Bloch) (Pomadasyidae), with the description of a new attachment mechanism". Systematic Parasitology. 32 (3): 211–224. doi:10.1007/BF00008830. ISSN 0165-5752. S2CID 21186267.
  11. ^ Mizelle, J. D.; McDougal, H. D. (1970). "Studies on Monogenetic Trematodes. XLV. The genus Dactylogyrus in North America. Key to Species, host-parasite and parasite-host lists, localities, emendations, and description of D. kritskyi sp. n.". American Midland Naturalist. 84 (2): 444. doi:10.2307/2423860. ISSN 0003-0031. JSTOR 2423860.
  12. ^ Boeger, Walter A.; Diamanka, Arfang; Pariselle, Antoine; Patella, Luciana (2012). "Two new species of Protogyrodactylus (Monogenoidea: Dactylogyridae) from the gills of Gerres nigri (Teleostei: Gerreidae) from Senegal". Folia Parasitologica. 59 (1): 59–63. doi:10.14411/fp.2012.009. ISSN 0015-5683. PMID 22439429. Open access icon
  13. ^ Dyer, William G.; Williams, Ernest H.; Bunkley-Williams, Lucy (1995). "Pseudorhabdosynochus kritskyi n. sp. (Monogenea: Diplectanidae) on Gag from the Gulf of Mexico". Journal of Aquatic Animal Health. 7 (4): 337–340. doi:10.1577/1548-8667(1995)007<0337:KNSDOG>2.3.CO;2. ISSN 0899-7659. S2CID 86249928.
  14. ^ Bellay, S., Takemoto, R. M., Yamada, F. H., & Pavanelli, G. C. (2009). Two new species of Sciadicleithrum (Monogenea: Dactylogyridae), gill parasites of Geophagus proximus (Castelnau)(Teleostei: Cichlidae), from the upper Parana River floodplain, Brazil. Zootaxa, 2081, 57-66
  15. ^ Vala, J. C., Maillard, C., & Overstreet, R. M. (1982). Haliotrema (Monogenea: Ancyrocephalinae) from ostraciid fishes in Guadeloupe, West Indies. Journal of Parasitology, 1130-1137,
  16. ^ Barnhart, M. C., & Powell, E. C. (1979). Lissorchis kritskyi sp. n.(Digenea: Lissorchiidae) from the river carpsucker, Carpiodes carpio (Rafinesque). Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington, 46, 47-51.