Department of Invertebrate Fauna and Systematics

Research directions:

Faunistics, Systematics, Taxonomy, Zoogeography, Morphology, Biology, Evolution, Phylogeny and Ecology of some Invertebrate groups (Protista, Spongia, Rotatoria, Turbellaria, Annelida, Mollusca, Arthropoda)

Within the department, there is the Research Group of Zoogeography

History of the Department

	Vitaliy V. ANISTRATENKO Head of the Department, DSci, Professor Systematics, morphological evolution, phylogeny, ecology, paleontology, biodiversity and biogeography of gastropod Molluscs inhabiting the East-Mediterranean and Ponto-Caspian Basin. Personal page
	Vladislav I. MONCHENKO (1932-2016) Chief Research Scientist, Academician of NAS of Ukraine Taxonomy, zoogeography, ecology, fauna of freeliving freshwater and marine Copepoda. Personal page
	Roman V. BABKO Leading Research Scientist, PhD The microplankton and microbenthos of different water bodies, taxonomy of protozoa, ecology of riparian beetles, biodiversity, aquatic ecosystems. Personal page
	Leonid S. SVETLICHNY Leading Research Scientist, PhD Ecology, taxonomy, physiology and behaviour of sea Copepoda Personal page
	Robert S. VARGOVITSH Senior Research Scientist, PhD Biospeleology; cave fauna of Carpathians, Crimea and Caucasus; taxonomy of cave Collembola. Personal page
	Olga Yu. ANISTRATENKO Senior Research Scientist, PhD The biodiversity, morphology, phylogeny and palaeobiology of marine and brackish-water Miocene and modern gastropods inhabiting the Mediterranean, the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov as well as continental water bodies of South-East Europe. Personal page
	Olena V. DEGTYARENKO The biodiversity, morphology, ecology and hydrobiology of brackish-water and fresh-water mollusks inhabiting the area of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov drainage system Personal page
	Igor A. BALASHOV Senior Research Scientist, PhD Terrestrial molluscs of the East European Plain, Crimea and Ukrainian Carpathians (fauna, systematics, zoogeography, ecology, conservation). Personal page
	Marina B. KIRICHENKO Research Scientist, PhD Ecology and taxonomy of carabid beetles (Carabidae), diversity Coleoptera, biodiversity monitoring, biocenology, quantitative ecology, conservation ecology Personal page
	Roman S. SVITIN Research Scientist Morphology, biology, ecology and phylogeny of nematodes parasitizing amphibians and reptiles Personal page
	Diana S. OSIPOVA Junior Research Scientist The morphology of modern freshwater and brackishwater Bivalvia of Ukraine. Evolution of bivalve hinge structures Personal page
	Jaroslava M. DANYLKIV Qualified Engineer Personal page
	Valeria R. ZATURENSKA Laboratory Technician
Researchers, who worked in the Department previously:
	Nataliia S. IAKOVENKO Taxonomy and morphology of bdelloid rotifers (Rotifera: Bdelloidea). Biodiversity and ecology of soil rotifers. DNA taxonomy.
	Yuliya P. KANANA Ontogenesis of planarians (Turbellaria, Tricladida).