František Vejdovský

František Vejdovský (born 24 October 1849 in Kouřim - died 4 December 1939 in Prague) was a Czech zoologist.[1] In 2007 the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature ruled that the family "Tubificidae" was a junior synonym of Naididae.[2] He was the first biologist to distinguish between nematodes and gordiids when he named a group to contain the horsehair worms the order Nematomorpha. In 1919, Nathan Cobb proposed that nematodes should be recognized alone as a phylum and Nematomorphs were recognized as their own phylum[3]

František Vejdovský in 1884, portrait by Václav Mára

References
  1. "František Vejdovský". Library of Czech Academy of Sciences. Czech Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
  2. "OPINION 2167 (Case 3305) NAIDIDAE Ehrenberg, 1828 (Annelida, Clitellata): precedence over TUBIFICIDAE Vejdovsky´, 1876 maintained". International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
  3. Cobb NA (1919). "The orders and classes of nemas". Contrib. Sci. Nematol. 8: 213–216.
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