tardigradologist

English

Etymology

tardigrade +‎ -ologist

Noun

tardigradologist (plural tardigradologists)

1. 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.