tardigradologist

英語

語源

tardigrade +‎ 接尾辞 "-ologist"

名詞

tardigradologist (複数 tardigradologists)

1. 緩歩動物の研究を専門にする生物学者。
   • 1977, The Wasmann Journal of Biology - Volumes 35-36:
     Accordingly, requests for specimens were sent to all European tardigradologists.
   • 1987, Roberto Bertolani, Biology of Tardigrades, page 13:
     Unfortunately, extenuating circumstances kept the tardigradologists from meeting in 1983, ...
   • 1994, Ian M. Kinchin, The biology of tardigrades, →ISBN, page 139:
     The designation of 'amateur tardigradologist' does not, in any way, infer inferior quality work -- it should be remembered that the early microscopists and many of the great scientists of the past were amateurs by today's criteria.
   • 2000, Records of the South Australian Museum - Volumes 33-35, page 84:
     This is probably more an artefact of where marine tardigradologists have been working and collecting rather than any zoogeographic pattern.