[Annelida] Sasha Rzhavsky

[Elena Kupriyanova]

Dear colleagues,

It is with great sadness that I inform you that my old friend and one of my closest colleagues Alexander (Sasha) Rzhavsky lost his battle with cancer. He was the last person on this planet who really and completely understood spirorbins - the rest of us, his co-authors, just pretended. Sasha and I published 2 books and many serpulid papers together. I named after him one of the first species http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=369220 that I described as a budding taxonomist...
Recently we published a field guide on Arctic serpulids - it is available for sale now and is the best tribute to my dear friend. I will do my best to finish and publish the manuscripts we worked on together, but I feel lost now.

Wormly
Lena


Dr. Elena Kupriyanova
Senior Research Scientist
Marine Invertebrates

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