Jacob van der Land

Jacob "Jaap" van der Land (1935–2011), Dutch marine biologist and helminthologist. He worked at the Unesco Register of Marine Species, the European Register of Marine Species, and as curator of the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). He was head of the department of Invertebrates of the former Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie (RMNH), presently known as the Naturalis Biodiversity Centre in Leiden, The Netherlands.

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• 2 taxon names authored by Jacob van der Land

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• 1964. A new peritrichous ciliate as a symphoriont on a tardigrade. Zoologische mededelingen 39: 85–88.

• & Templeman, W. 1968. Two New Species of Gyrocotyle (Monogenea) from Hydrolagus affinis (Brito Capello) (Holocephali). Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 25(11): 2365–2385. DOI: 10.1139/f68-206 Reference page. 
• 1968. Florarctus antillensis, a new tardigrade from the coral sand of Curaçao. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands 25: 140–156.

• & Nørrevang, A. 1977. Structure and relationships of Lamellibrachia (Annelida, Vesti-mentifera). Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab Biologiske Skrifter 21(3): 1–102.

• , Costello, M.J., Zavodnik, D., Santos, R.S., Porteiro, F.M., Bailly, N., Eschmeyer, W.N. & Froese, R. 2001. Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) 2001. European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels 50: pp. 357–374. Reference page. 

• (ed.), 2008. UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo

• 2009. Priapulida. In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) 2009. New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp.