Victor Vladimirovich Petryashov

Victor Vladimirovich Petryashov (16 March 1956 - 2 July 2018) was a Russian zoologist, carcinologist, hydrobiologist and biogeographer. His scientific research focused on taxonomy and distribution of malacostracan crustaceans, particularly orders Mysida, Lophogastrida and Leptostraca, and marine biogeography and hydrobiology of Arctic, Antarctic and temperate seas of the World, and he published over 120 works. V.V. Petryashov spent all his professional life in St. Petersburg in the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. As a senior researcher he also curated the malacostracan crustacean collection of the Zoological Institute.

Named taxa Mysida: Paracanthomysis shikhotaniensis Petrjashov, 1983 Stylomysis arcticoglacialis (Petryashov, 1990) (originally Mysis arcticoglacialis Petryashov, 1990) Michthyops arcticus Petryashov, 1993 Meterythrops muranous Petryashov, 2015 Stellamblyops Petryashov et Frutos, 2017 Stellamblyops vassilenkoae Petryashov et Frutos, 2017

Lophogastrida: Neognathophausia Petryashov, 1992 Fagegnathophausia Petryashov, 2015

Leptostraca: Pseudonebaliopsis Petryashov, 1996 Pseudonebaliopsis atlantica Petryashov, 1996 Sarsinebalia pseudotyphlops Petryashov, 2016 Nebaliella kurila Petryashov, 2016 Nebaliella ochotica Petryashov, 2017

Taxa dedicated to V.V. Petryashov Boreomysis (Petryashovia) Daneliya, 2023 (Mysida: Mysidae: Boreomysinae)