Hugo Eisig

Hugo Eisig (1847, Baden - 10 February 1920) was a German marine zoologist.[1]

Hugo Eisig was a student of Ernst Haeckel. He served as a first assistant (1872-1909), then as a vice-director at Stazione Zoologica in Naples.[2]

Eisig was an expert on polychaete worms and in 1887 published "Die Capitelliden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte: eine Monographie" (Volume 16 of Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel).[3] He also wrote "Zur Systematik, Anatomie und Morphologie der Ariciiden nebst Beiträgen zur generellen Systematik"; Mitteilungen aus der Zoologischen Station zu Neapel, 21(6): 153-600 (1914).[4]

Taxa
  • Centroderes eisigii (Zelinka, 1928)
  • Cerebratulus eisigii (Hubrecht, 1880)

References
  • petymol Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names. E & F
  1. New International Yearbook: A Compendium of the World's Progress by Frank Moore Colby
  2. Google Books Correspondence, Karl Ernst Von Baer (1792-1876), Anton Dohrn (1840-1909) by Karl Ernst von Baer, Anton Dohrn
  3. Google Books Die Capitelliden des Golfes von Neapel
  4. WoRMS Taxon details
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