tardigradologist

plural tardigradologists

1. A biologist who specializes in studying tardigrades.

   Accordingly, requests for specimens were sent to all European tardigradologists.

   1977, The Wasmann Journal of Biology - Volumes 35-36

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   Unfortunately, extenuating circumstances kept the tardigradologists from meeting in 1983, ...

   1987, Roberto Bertolani, Biology of Tardigrades, page 13

   The designation of 'amateur tardigradologist' does not, in any way, infer inferior quality work -- it should be remembered that the early microscopists and many of the great scientists of the past were amateurs by today's criteria.

   1994, Ian M. Kinchin, The biology of tardigrades, →ISBN, page 139

   This is probably more an artefact of where marine tardigradologists have been working and collecting rather than any zoogeographic pattern.

   2000, Records of the South Australian Museum - Volumes 33-35, page 84