tardigradologist
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From tardigrade + -ologist.
Noun
[edit]tardigradologist (plural tardigradologists)
- A biologist who specializes in studying tardigrades.
- 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.