VICTOR FET


Professor,

Department of Biological Sciences,

Marshall University,

Huntington, West Virginia 25755-2510, USA 

 


 

Contact                                                                            


Phone (304) 696-3116 
Fax (304) 696-3243 
EMAIL  fet@marshall.edu

 

                                                                                   


Background
 

Ph.D., Zoological Institute, Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1984 
B.S./M.S., University of Novosibirsk, Russia, 1976 

 

1995-present : Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, USA

1990-1995: Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

1988-1990: postdoc, Vanderbilt University Medical School, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

1976-1987: zoologist, national parks of Turkmenistan (Central Asia).

 

Teaching Experience:  

Genetics, Principles of Evolution, Biogeography,  General Biology, DNA Technology, Human Genetics, Biotechnology, Invertebrate Zoology, Parasitology.   

 


Research Interests  

 

My interests lie in various aspects of evolution, genetics, biogeography and taxonomy of scorpions - which demonstrate remarkable adaptations and diversity acquired in their 400,000,000 years of known evolutionary history.

 

My research involves reconstructing scorpion evolution and phylogeny with molecular techniques, particularly mitochondrial DNA PCR and sequence analysis - the same methods as are used in forensic science, DNA fingerprinting, and genetic engineering. I am also interested in taxonomy, systematics, paleontology, morphology, and various phenomena specific to scorpions, first of all their sensory organs. Students are actively involved in lab research and publication of the results. A number of projects on speciation in European, Asian, and American scorpions, utilizing DNA techniques, is under work.  I also collaborate on projects in molecular evolution of other animals, fungi, extrachromosomal heredity, and transposable elements.

 

I am actively involved in systematics, faunistics, and taxonomy of scorpions. With my co-authors, I recently published the Catalog of the Scorpions of the World (2000), a "yellow pages" book listing about 1300 species and 170 genera of the existing scorpions, plus about 100 fossil species; and the definitive monograph on high-level scorpion systematics (2003).

 

Another aspect of my research concerns evolution, biodiversity, and biogeography of desert and mountain animals and biotas, especially in Central Asia and the Balkans. I work with local collectives of biologists as an editor on production of definitive monographs in biodiversity and biogeography. Two of such monographic works have been published,  Biogeography and Ecology of Turkmenistan (1994) and Biogeography and Ecology of Bulgaria (2007).

 

I traveled intensively with research purposes, both for field work and museum work. In 2001-2002, the National Geographic Society sponsored my expedition to Central Asian deserts to study scorpions there. My field travels took me to Mexico, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Bulgaria, Greece, Austria, France, Slovenia, and New Zealand; I worked with scorpion collections in the natural history museums of England, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Russia, and Bulgaria, and studied collections loaned from dozens of other museums. I run a number of cooperative projects with researchers from many countries. In January-June 2005, I was on a sabbatical leave as a Fulbright Scholar Program grant recipient in Bulgaria.

 

I am also the editor (together with Michael E. Soleglad) of "Euscorpius", the Occasional Publications in Scorpiology, an online peer-reviewed research journal and the only research periodical completely devoted to scorpions. Since its inception in 2001, "Euscorpius" published 72 issues authored by 59 zoologists from 20 countries (USA, Argentina, China, Colombia, Cuba, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Iran, Italy, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Norway, Pakistan, Russia, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, and Venezuela.)

 

My additional interests within biological sciences concern history of biology, especially in my native Russia.

Recently, I has been working on a translation into English a seminal and nearly forgotten Russian work on symbiogenesis by Boris M. Kozo-Polyansky (1924). This work is encouraged and promoted by Professor Lynn Margulis (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), the leading authority on symbiogenesis and the original author of the serial endosymbiotic theory (SET) of eukaryotic cell origin.

 

                                                                             

PUBLICATIONS:  

[for non-biology publications, mainly in Russian, see Avgust & Gustav website and also Other Publications]

 

 

                                                                                     Books

 

Fet, V. & A. Popov (eds). 2007 (June). Biogeography and Ecology of Bulgaria. Springer, 687 pp. 

 

Fet, V. & P. A. Selden (eds). 2001. Scorpions 2001. In Memoriam Gary A. Polis.

Burnham Beeches, Bucks: British Arachnological Society, UK, 450 pp.

 

Fet, V., W. D. Sissom, G. Lowe & M. E. Braunwalder. 2000.  Catalog of the Scorpions of the World (1758-1998). New York: New York Entomological Society, 690 pp.

 

Fet, V. & K. I. Atamuradov (eds). 1994.  Biogeography and Ecology of Turkmenistan. Dordrecht-Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 650 pp. 

 

 

Journal Papers & Book Chapters:

 

 

  2008 

 

Brewer, M., M. Graham, V. Fet & M. Soleglad. 2008. Scorpion serrula: an enigmatic structure under SEM. Proceedings of the West Virginia Academy of Sciencе, Abstracts of the 82nd Annual Session, Marshall University, March 31, 2007, 79(1): 30 (published May 2008).

 

Fet, V.  2008. Zoological label as literary form. The Nabokovian (University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas), 60: 18–26.

 

Fet, V. & L. Margulis. 2008. Symbiogenesis and B.M. Kozo-Polyansky. In: Sovremennoe sostoyanie, problemy i perspektivy regional’nykh botanicheskikh issledovanii [Current Status, Issues, and Perspectives of Regional Botanical Studies]. Materials of the International Conference, 6-8 February 2008, Voronezh State University, Voronezh, Russia (in Russian: Симбиогенез и Б.M. Козо-Полянский).

 

Navidpour, S., F. Kovařík, M.E. Soleglad & V. Fet. 2008a. Scorpions of Iran (Arachnida, Scorpiones). Part I. Khoozestan Province. Euscorpius, 65: 1–41. PDF file

 

Navidpour, S., M.E. Soleglad, V. Fet & F. Kovařík. 2008b. Scorpions of Iran (Arachnida, Scorpiones). Part II. Bushehr Province. Euscorpius, 67: 1–33.  PDF file

 

Navidpour, S., V. Fet, F. Kovařík & M.E. Soleglad. 2008c. Scorpions of Iran (Arachnida, Scorpiones). Part III. Ilam Province. Euscorpius, 69: 1–29.  PDF file

 

Soleglad, M.E. & V. Fet. 2008. Contributions to scorpion systematics. III. Subfamilies Smeringurinae and Syntropinae (Scorpiones: Vaejovidae). Euscorpius, 71: 1–115.  PDF file  

 

 

  2007 

 

Fet, V. & M. E. Soleglad. 2007a. Fauna and zoogeography of scorpions (Arachnida: Scorpiones) in Bulgaria. Pp. 405–422 In: Fet, V. & A. Popov (eds). Biogeography and Ecology of Bulgaria. Springer.  PDF file

Fet, V. & M. E. Soleglad. 2007b. Synonymy of Parabroteas montezuma Penther, 1913 and designation of neotype for Vaejovis mexicanus C. L. Koch, 1836 (Scorpiones: Vaejovidae). Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa, 41: 251–263.  PDF file

Jones, M., B. Gantenbein, V. Fet & M. Blaxter. 2007. The effect of model choice on phylogenetic inference using
mitochondrial sequence data: Lessons from the scorpions. Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution, 43(2): 583–595.  PDF file

 

Kovařík, F., M.E. Soleglad & V. Fet. 2007. A new species of scorpions in the "Charmus" group from India (Scorpiones: Buthoidea). Boletín de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa, 40: 201–209.  PDF file

 

Lushnikova, T., V. Fet & W.I. Towler. 2007. Phylogenetic analysis and genomic structure of the cone photoreceptor gene, NCKX2 (SLC24A2). Proceedings of the West Virginia Academy of Sciencе, 2006, 78(2): 33-47 (published July 2007).

Novikova, O., V. Fet & A. Blinov. 2007a. LTR retrotransposons in the Aspergillus fumigatus and A. nidulans genomes. Molecular Biology 41(5): 756–763 (also in Russian: Molekulyarnaya Biologiya 41(5): 830-838).  PDF file

 

Novikova, O., V. Fet & A. Blinov. 2007b. Homology-dependent inactivation of LTR retrotransposons in Aspergillus fumigatus and A. nidulans genomes. Molecular Biology 41(5): 886–893.

 

Novikova, O., E. Śliwińska, V. Fet, J. Settele, A. Blinov & M. Woyciechowski. 2007. CR1 clade of non-LTR retrotransposons from Maculinea butterflies (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae): evidence for recent horizontal transmission. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 7(1): 93 (19 pp).  PDF file

Soleglad, M.E., G. Lowe & V. Fet. 2007. Systematic observations on the scorpion genus Syntropis, with description of two new species (Scorpiones: Vaejovidae). Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa, 40: 119–136.  PDF file

  2006 

Baptista, C., J. A. Santiago-Blay, M. E. Soleglad & V. Fet.  2006. The Cretaceous scorpion genus, Archaeobuthus, revisited (Scorpiones: Archaeobuthidae). Euscorpius, 35: 1–40.  PDF file

Chowell, G., P. Díaz-Dueńas, R. Bustos-Saldańa, A. Alemán Mireles & V. Fet.  2006. Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of scorpionism in Colima, Mexico (2000-2001). Toxicon, 47: 753–758.

 

Fet, V.  2006. Wanderings under the constellation of Scorpio. Science First Hand  [Novosibirsk, Russia],  6(11): 83–94 (a popular article). PDF file;  Russian version: Stranstviya pod sozvezdiem Skorpiona. Nauka iz pervykh ruk, 6(11): 111–121  PDF file

 

Fet, V., M.S. Brewer, M. E. Soleglad & D.P.A. Neff.  2006. Constellation array: a new sensory structure in scorpions (Arachnida: Scorpiones). Boletín de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa, 38: 269–278.  PDF file

Fet, V., B. Gantenbein, Ay. Karataş & A. Karataş. 2006. An extremely low genetic divergence across the range of Euscorpius italicus (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae). Journal of Arachnology, 34(1): 248–253.  PDF file

Fet, V., M.E. Soleglad & M.S. Brewer. 2006. Laterobasal aculear serrations (LAS) in scorpion family Vaejovidae (Scorpiones: Chactoidea). Euscorpius, 45: 1–19. PDF file; higher resolution:  part 1,  part 2,  part 3, and part 4

Fet, V., M.E. Soleglad, M.S. Brewer, D.P.A. Neff & M.L. Norton. 2006a. Constellation array in scorpion genera Paruroctonus, Smeringurus, Vejovoidus, and Paravaejovis (Scorpiones: Vaejovidae). Euscorpius, 41: 1–15. PDF file

Fet, V., M.E. Soleglad, M.S. Brewer, D.P.A. Neff & M.L. Norton. 2006b. Vestigial serrula in scorpion genera Paruroctonus, Smeringurus, Vejovoidus, and Paravaejovis (Scorpiones: Vaejovidae). Euscorpius, 49: 1–20.  PDF file: part 1 and part 2

Glushkov, S., O. Novikova, A. Blinov & V. Fet.  2006.  Divergent non-LTR retrotransposon lineages from the genomes of scorpions (Arachnida: Scorpiones).  Molecular Genetics and Genomics, 275: 288–296. PDF file

 

Graham, M.R. & V. Fet. 2006. Serrula in retrospect: a historical look at scorpion literature (Scorpiones: Orthosterni). Euscorpius, 48: 1–19.   PDF file  

 

Kovařík, F. & V. Fet.  2006a. Taxonomic position of the genus Simonoides Vachon et Farzanpay, 1987, and description of a new species of Orthochirus Karsch from Iran (Scorpiones: Buthidae). Euscorpius, 38: 1–10. PDF file

 

Kovařík, F. & V. Fet.  2006b. Taxonomic position of the genus Sassanidotus Farzanpay, 1987 (Scorpiones: Buthidae). Euscorpius, 39: 1–9.  PDF file

 

Soleglad, M. E. & V. Fet.  2006. Contributions to scorpion systematics. II. Stahnkeini, a new tribe in scorpion family Vaejovidae (Scorpiones: Chactoidea). Euscorpius, 40: 1–32.  PDF file

Teruel, R., V. Fet & M.R. Graham. 2006. The first mitochondrial DNA phylogeny of Cuban Buthidae (Scorpiones: Buthoidea). Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa, 39: 219–226.  PDF fil

  2005 

Acosta, L. E. & V. Fet.  2005. Nomenclatural notes in Scorpiones (Arachnida). Zootaxa, 934: 1–12.  PDF file

 

Fet, V. &  M. E. Braunwalder.  2005. Systematik und Bestimmung / Sistematica e determinazione. Pp. 17–50 In: Braunwalder, M. E. Fauna Helvetica 13. Scorpiones (Arachnida). Centre suisse de cartographie de la Faune / Schweizerische Entomologische Gesellschaft, Neuchâtel, 240 pp. (parallel text in German and Italian),  Book order form

 

Fet, V. & M. E. Soleglad.  2005. Contributions to scorpion systematics. I. On recent changes in high-level taxonomy. Euscorpius, 31: 1–13.  PDF file

 

Fet, V., M. E. Soleglad & G. Lowe.  2005. A new trichobothrial character for the high-level systematics of Buthoidea (Scorpiones: Buthida). Euscorpius, 23: 1–40.  PDF file

 

Fet, V., M. E. Soleglad, Yu. V. Mosseichik & D.E. Shcherbakov. 2005 [A scorpion from a peatbog: the first arthropod fossil from the Late Viséan of the Moscow Coal Basin]. In: Durante, M.V. & I.A. Ignatyev (eds), Plant World in Space and Time. Collection of scientific papers, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of academician V.V Menner (1905-1989). GEOS, Moscow: 163–166 (in Russian).   PDF file   See also Fet et al. 2004 (in English)

 

Gantenbein, B., V. Fet, I. A. Gantenbein-Ritter & F. Balloux.  2005. Evidence for recombination in scorpion mitochondrial DNA (Scorpiones: Buthidae). Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences, 272(1564): 697–704.  PDF file

 

Soleglad, M. E. & V. Fet.  2005a. A new scorpion genus (Scorpiones: Vaejovidae) from Mexico. Euscorpius, 24: 1–13.  PDF file  

 

Soleglad, M. E. & V. Fet.  2005b. The genus Auyantepuia González-Sponga, 1978 is confirmed as a synonym of Broteochactas Pocock, 1893 (Scorpiones: Chactidae). Euscorpius, 29: 1–14.  PDF file

 

Soleglad, M. E., V. Fet & F. Kovařík.  2005. The systematic position of the scorpion genera Heteroscorpion Birula, 1903 and Urodacus Peters, 1861 (Scorpiones: Scorpionoidea). Euscorpius, 20: 1–38.  PDF file

 

  2004

Fet, V. & D. D. Gaffin.  2004. Preface. Proceedings of the 3d Scorpiology Symposium, American Arachnological Society 28th Annual Meeting,  Norman, Oklahoma, 28 June 2004. Euscorpius, 17: i-–v.   PDF file of the Proceedings

Fet, V., M. E. Soleglad & B. Gantenbein. 2004. The Euroscorpion: genus Euscorpius (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae). Proceedings of the 3d Scorpiology Symposium, American Arachnological Society 28th Annual Meeting,  Norman, Oklahoma, 23-27 June 2004. Euscorpius, 17: 47–59.    PDF file of the Proceedings

Fet, V., M. E. Soleglad & A. V. Gromov. 2004. The platypus of a scorpion: genus Pseudochactas (Scorpiones: Pseudochactidae). Proceedings of the 3d Scorpiology Symposium, American Arachnological Society 28th Annual Meeting,  Norman, Oklahoma, 28 June 2004. Euscorpius, 17: 61–68.   PDF file of the Proceedings.

See also the abstracts of the first "Scorpion Symposium", Los Angeles, June 1985

Fet, V., M. E. Soleglad & F. Kovařík. 2004. Subfamily Lisposominae revisited (Scorpiones: Bothriuridae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología, 10: 195–209.  PDF file

Fet, V., M. E. Soleglad, Yu. V. Mosseichik & D.E. Shcherbakov. 2004. A scorpion from a peatbog: the first arthropod fossil from the Late Viséan of the Moscow Coal Basin. Euscorpius, 13: 1–5.   PDF file   See also Fet et al. 2005 (in Russian)

Fet, V., M.E. Soleglad, D. P. A. Neff & I. Stathi. 2004. Tarsal armature in the superfamily Iuroidea (Scorpiones: Iurida). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología, 10: 17–40.  PDF file

Santiago-Blay, J.A., V. Fet, M.E. Soleglad & S.R. Anderson. 2004. A new genus and subfamily of scorpions from Lower Cretaceous Burmese amber (Scorpiones: Chaerilidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología, 9: 3–14.   PDF file

 

Santiago-Blay, J.A., V. Fet, M.E. Soleglad & P.R. Craig. 2004. The second Cretaceous scorpion specimen from Burmese amber (Arachnida: Scorpiones). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 2(2): 147–152.  PDF file

Santiago-Blay, J.A., M.E. Soleglad & V. Fet. 2004. A redescription and family placement  of Uintascorpio Perry, 1995 from the Parachute Creek Member of the Green River Formation (Middle Eocene) of Colorado, USA (Scorpiones: Buthidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología, 10: 7–16. PDF file

Soleglad, M. E. & V. Fet. 2004. The systematics of scorpion subfamily Uroctoninae (Scorpiones: Chactidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología, 10: 81–128.  PDF file

 

Teruel, R., V. Fet & L. de Armas. 2004. A note on the scorpions from the Pirin Mountains, southwestern Bulgaria (Scorpiones: Buthidae, Euscorpiidae). Euscorpius, 14: 1–11. PDF file

 

  2003

Fet, V.  2003a. The Crimean scorpion, Euscorpius tauricus (C.L. Koch, 1837) (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae): an endemic species supported by mitochondrial DNA evidence. Arthropoda Selecta (Moscow, Russia), 11(4): 271–276.  PDF file.

 

Fet, V. 2003b. To spell or not to spell: again on Rowlandius jarmillae Armas & Cockendolpher, 2001 (Schizomida: Hubbardiidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnologia, 8: 44. PDF file

 

Fet, V., B. Gantenbein, A. V. Gromov, G. Lowe & W. R. Lourenço. 2003. The first molecular phylogeny of Buthidae (Scorpiones). Euscorpius, 4: 1–10. PDF file

 

Fet, V., Ay. Karataş, E. V. Fet  & A. Karataş.  2003. First data on the molecular phylogeny of Euscorpius (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae) from Turkey. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 82 (12): 1518–1521 (Moscow, Russia) (in Russian; English summary).  PDF file  (English translation published in: Entomological Review, 2003, 83, Suppl. 2: 249-252  PDF file) 

 

Fet, V. & F. Kovařík. 2003. A record of Euscorpius (Polytrichobothrius) italicus (Herbst, 1800) (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae) in Iraq. Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae (Prague, Czech Republic), 67: 179–181.  PDF file

Fet, V. & C. Messing. 2003. Case 3270. Isometrinae Clark, 1917 (Echinodermata, Crinoidea):  proposed emendation of spelling to Isometrainae to remove homonymy with Isometrinae Kraepelin, 1891 (Arachnida, Scorpiones). Bulletin of the Zoological Nomenclature (UK), 60(4): 293–296.  PDF file

See also ICZN Opinion 2132 (2005) which approved the scorpion subfamily name Isometrinae (now in synonymy).

Fet, E. V., D. Neff, M. Graham & V. Fet. 2003. Metasoma of Orthochirus (Scorpiones: Buthidae): are scorpions evolving a new sensory organ? Revista Ibérica de Aracnologia, 8: 69–72.  PDF file

Fet, V., M. E. Petersen & G. S. Slyusarev. 2003. Case 3151. Rhopalurusinae Bücherl, 1971 (Arachnida, Scorpiones: Buthidae): proposed conservation as the correct spelling to remove homonymy with Rhopaluridae Stunkard, 1937 (Orthonectida). Bulletin of the Zoological Nomenclature (UK), 60(1): 23–25. PDF file

Fet, V. , M. E. Soleglad, B. Gantenbein, V. Vignoli, N. Salomone, E. V. Fet & P. J. Schembri. 2003. New molecular and morphological data on the “Euscorpius carpathicus” species complex (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae) from Italy, Malta, and Greece justify the elevation of E. c. sicanus (C. L. Koch, 1837) to the species level. Revue suisse de Zoologie, 110(2): 355–379. PDF file

 

Gantenbein, B., V. Fet & A. V. Gromov. 2003. The first DNA phylogeny of four species of Mesobuthus Vachon, 1950 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from Eurasia. Journal of Arachnology, 31(3): 412–420.  PDF file

 

Kovařík, F. & V. Fet. 2003. Scorpion Euscorpius (Euscorpius) tergestinus (C. L. Koch, 1837) (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae) in central Bohemia. Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae (Prague, Czech Republic), 67: 189–192.  PDF file

 

Soleglad, M. E. & V. Fet. 2003a. The scorpion sternum: structure and phylogeny (Scorpiones: Orthosterni). Euscorpius, 5: 1–34.  PDF File

 

Soleglad, M. E. & V. Fet. 2003b. High-level systematics and phylogeny of the extant scorpions (Scorpiones: Orthosterni). Euscorpius, 11: 1–175.  (download from http://www.science.marshall.edu/fet/euscorpius/pubs.htm)

 

Review of Soleglad & Fet (2003b) by J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson in the Newsletter of British Arachnological Society

 

  2002

Fet, V. 2002. Correction of the original spelling for Rowlandius jarmillae Armas & Cokendolpher, 2001 (Schizomida: Hubbardiidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología, 5: 90. PDF file

 

Fet, V., M. E. Braunwalder & H. D. Cameron. 2002. Scorpions (Arachnida, Scorpiones) described by Linnaeus. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society, 12(4): 176–182.  PDF file

 

Fet, V., B. Gantenbein, E. V. Fet & V. Popa. 2002. Euscorpius carpathicus (Linnaeus, 1767) from Romania (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae): mitochondrial DNA data.  Biogeographica (Paris), 78(4): 141–147. PDF file

 

Fet, V. & M. E. Soleglad. 2002. Morphology analysis supports presence of more than one species in the “Euscorpius carpathicus” complex (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae). Euscorpius, 3: 1–51. PDF file

 

Gantenbein, B., M. E. Soleglad, V. Fet, P. Crucitti & E. V. Fet. 2002. Euscorpius naupliensis (C. L. Koch, 1837) (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae): elevation to the species level justified by molecular and morphology data. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología, 6: 13–43.  PDF file

 

  2001

Capes, E. M. & V. Fet. 2001. A redescription of the scorpion genus Plesiobuthus Pocock, 1900 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from Pakistan. Entomologische Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum Hamburg, 13(164): 295–304.  PDF file

 

Fet, V. & G. Bechly. 2001. Case 3120a. Liochelidae, fam. nov. (Scorpiones): proposed introduction as a substitute name for Ischnuridae Simon, 1879, as an alternative to the suggested emendment of Ischnurinae Fraser, 1957 (Insecta, Odonata) to Ischnurainae in order to remove homonymy. Bulletin of the Zoological Nomenclature, 58(4): 280–281. PDF file

 

See also ICZN Opinion 2037 which approved the family name Liochelidae. However, this name is not valid: it is an available junior synonym of Hormurinae Laurie, 1896 (see Soleglad et al. 2005 for detailed discussion). The family name which should be used now is Hemiscorpiidae).

 

Fet, V., E. M. Capes & W. D. Sissom. 2001. Polisius, a new scorpion genus from Iran (Scorpiones: Buthidae). Pp. 183–190 in: Fet, V. & P. A. Selden (eds). Scorpions 2001. In Memoriam Gary A. Polis. Burnham Beeches, Bucks: British Arachnological Society. PDF file

 

Fet, V., M. Kuntner & B. Sket. 2001. Scоrpions of Slovenia: a faunistic and biogeographical survey. Pp. 255–266 in: Fet, V. & P. A. Selden (eds). Scorpions 2001. In memoriam Gary A. Polis. Burnham Beeches, Bucks: British Arachnological Society.  PDF file

 

Fet, V., M. E. Soleglad & M. D. Barker. 2001. Phylogenetic analysis of the “hirsutus” group of the genus Hadrurus Thorell (Scorpiones: Iuridae) based on morphology and mitochondrial DNA. Pp. 139–160 in: Fet, V. & P. A. Selden (eds). Scorpions 2001. In Memoriam Gary A. Polis. Burnham Beeches, Bucks: British Arachnological Society.  PDF file

 

Frost, L.,  D. R. Butler, B. O'Dell &  V. Fet. 2001. A coumarin as a fluorescent compound in scorpions. Pp. 365–368 in: Fet, V. & P. A. Selden (eds). Scorpions 2001. In Memoriam Gary A. Polis. Burnham Beeches, Bucks: British Arachnological Society.

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Gantenbein, B., V. Fet, & M. D. Barker. 2001. Mitochondrial DNA markers reveal a deep, divergent phylogeny in Centruroides exilicauda (Wood) (Scorpiones: Buthidae). Pp. 235–244 in: Fet, V. & P. A. Selden (eds). Scorpions 2001. In Memoriam Gary A. Polis. Burnham Beeches, Bucks: British Arachnological Society.  PDF file.

 

Gantenbein, B., M. E. Soleglad & V. Fet. 2001. Euscorpius balearicus Caporiacco, 1950, stat. nov. (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae): molecular (allozymes and mtDNA) and morphological evidence for an endemic Balearic Islands species. Organisms, Diversity & Evolution, 1(4): 301–320. 

 

Huber, D., B. Gantenbein, V. Fet & B. Scherabon, B. 2001. Euscorpius carpathicus (L.) from Austria (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae): phylogenetic position clarified by mitochondrial DNA analysis. Pp. 273–278 in: Fet, V. & P. A. Selden (eds). Scorpions 2001. In Memoriam Gary A. Polis. Burnham Beeches, Bucks: British Arachnological Society.  PDF file

 

Komposch, C., B. Scherabon & V. Fet. 2001. Scorpions of Austria. Pp. 267–272 in: Fet, V. & P. A. Selden (eds). Scorpions 2001. In Memoriam Gary A. Polis. Burnham Beeches, Bucks: British Arachnological Society.  PDF file

 

Soleglad, M. E. & V. Fet. 2001. Evolution of scorpion orthobothriotaxy: a cladistic approach. Euscorpius, 1: 1–38. PDF file.

 

Towler, W. I., J. Ponce Saavedra, B. Gantenbein & V. Fet. 2001. Mitochondrial DNA reveals divergent phylogeny in tropical Centruroides (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from Mexico.  Biogeographica (Paris), 77(4): 157–172.  PDF file

 

Yamashita, T. & V. Fet. 2001.  Molecular approaches to biogeography.  Pp. 347–369 In:  Brownell  P. H., and G. A. Polis (eds). Scorpion Biology and Research.  Oxford University Press, UK.

 

  2000

Chapters in: Fet, V., W. D. Sissom, G. Lowe & M. E. Braunwalder. Catalog of the Scorpions of the World (1758-1998).  New York Entomological Society, New York, 690 pp.:

 

        Fet, V. 2000a. Family Chaerilidae. Pp. 323-328.

        Fet, V. 2000b. Family Heteroscorpionidae. Pp. 381-382. 

        Fet, V. 2000c. Family Ischnuridae. Pp. 383-408. 

        Fet, V. 2000d. Family Microcharmidae. Pp. 421-423.

        Fet, V. 2000e. Family Palaeopisthacanthidae. Pp. 424-425.

        Fet, V. 2000f.  Family Pseudochactidae. P. 426

        Fet, V. 2000g. Family Scorpionidae. Pp. 427-486.

        Fet, V. 2000h. Family Scorpiopidae. Pp. 383-408.

        Fet, V. 2000i.  Suborder Branchioscorpionina. Pp. 554-595.

        Fet, V. & G. Lowe. 2000. Family Buthidae. Pp. 54-286.

        Fet, V. & W. D. Sissom. 2000. Family Euscorpiidae. Pp. 355-381.

        Lowe, G. & V. Fet. 2000. Family Bothriuridae. Pp. 17-53.

        Sissom, W. D. & V. Fet. 2000a. Family Diplocentridae. Pp. 329-354.

        Sissom, W. D. & V. Fet. 2000b. Family Iuridae.  Pp. 409-420.

        Sissom, W. D. & V. Fet. 2000c. Family Troglotayosicidae. Pp. 501-502.

 

        Review of the Catalog by Mark Harvey (Australia)

 

Fet, V. 2000j. Scorpions (Arachnida, Scorpiones) from the Balkan Peninsula in the collections of the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia. Historia Naturalis Bulgarica, 11: 47-60. PDF file

 

Fet, V. 2000k. Gary Allan Polis (1946-2000). Arthropoda Selecta (Moscow), 8(4): 293-295.  PDF file

 

Fet, V. 2000l. Gary Allan Polis (1946-2000). Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society, 89: 14-15.  PDF file

 

Fet, V. & G. Bechly. 2000. Case 3120. Ischnurainae Fraser, 1957 (Insecta, Odonata): proposed conservation as the correct spelling of Ischnurinae to remove homonymy with Ischnuridae Simon, 1879 (Arachnida, Scorpiones). Bulletin of the Zoological Nomenclature 57(1): 26-28. PDF file

 

Fet, V. & M. E. Braunwalder. 2000a. Case 3119. Vachoniainae Maury, 1973 (Arachnida, Scorpiones): proposed conservation as the correct spelling to remove homonymy with Vachoniidae Chamberlin, 1947 (Arachnida, Pseudoscorpiones). Bulletin of the Zoological Nomenclature 57(1): 24-25. PDF file

 

Fet, V. & M. E. Braunwalder. 2000b. The scorpions (Arachnida, Scorpiones) of the Aegean area: current problems in taxonomy and biogeography.  Belgian Journal of Zoology, 130 (Suppl. 1): 17-22.  PDF file.

 

Fet, V., B. E. Hendrixson, W. D. Sissom & G. Levy. 2000. First record for the genus Mesobuthus Vachon, 1950 in Israel: Mesobuthus nigrocinctus (Ehrenberg, 1828), comb. n. (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from Mt. Hermon. Israel Journal of Zoology, 46: 287-295.  PDF file

 

Gantenbein, B., V. Fet, M. Barker & A. Scholl. 2000. Nuclear and mitochondrial markers reveal the existence of two parapatric scorpion species in the Alps: Euscorpius germanus (C. L. Koch, 1837) and E. alpha Caporiacco, 1950, stat. nov. (Scorpiones, Euscorpiidae). Revue suisse de Zoologie, 107(4): 843-869. PDF file.

 

Scherabon, B., B. Gantenbein, V. Fet, M. Barker, M. Kuntner, C. Kropf & D. Huber. 2000. A new species of scorpion from Austria, Italy, Slovenia and Croatia: Euscorpius gamma Caporiacco, 1950, stat. nov. (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae). In: Gajdoš P. & Pekár S. (eds): Proceedings of the 18th European Colloquium of Arachnology, Stará Lesná, 1999. Ekológia (Bratislava), Vol. 19, Supplement 3, pp. 253-262.

 

 

1999

Atamuradov, H. I., G. N. Fet, V. Fet, R. Valdez & W. R. Feldman. 1999. Biodiversity, genetic diversity, and protected areas in Turkmenistan. Journal of Sustainable Forestry, 9(1-2): 73-88.

 

Fet, V., K. Gerlach, W. Gladwell & M. Little. 1999. First mitochondrial DNA phylogenetic data from blacknose dace (Rhinichthys atratulus) (Cyprinidae, Osteichthyes) in West Virginia. Proceedings of the West Virginia Academy of Science, 71(1): 2.

 

Fet, V., M. Barker & B. Gantenbein, B. 1999. Species-level variation of the mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene sequence: use in molecular systematics and biogeography. Proceedings of the West Virginia Academy of Science, 71(1): 15.

 

Gantenbein, B., V. Fet, C. Largiader & A. Scholl. 1999. First DNA phylogeny of the genus Euscorpius Thorell 1876 (Scorpiones, Euscorpiidae) and its bearing on the taxonomy and biogeography of this genus. Biogeographica (Paris), 75(3): 59-72.  PDF file

 

Little, M., A. Tennant, V. Fet & D. Tarter. 1999. The presence of unique forms of the common minnow, Rhinichthys atratulus, in West Virginia streams. Proceedings of the West Virginia Academy of Sciencе, 71(1): 2.

 

1998

Braunwalder, M. E. & V. Fet. 1998. On publications about scorpions (Arachnida, Scorpiones) by Hemprich and Ehrenberg (1828-1831). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society, 11(1): 29-35.

 

Fet, V. 1998. Case 3026. Androctonus caucasicus Nordmann, 1840 (currently Mesobuthus caucasicus; Arachnida, Scorpiones): proposed conservation of the specific name. Bulletin of the Zoological Nomenclature, 55(1): 14-16.  PDF file; see also ICZN, Opinion 1933

 

Fet, V., G. A. Polis & W. D. Sissom. 1998. Life in sandy deserts: the scorpion model. Journal of the Arid Environments (London), 39: 609-622.  PDF file

 

Sissom, W. D. & V. Fet. 1998.  Redescription of Compsobuthus matthiesseni (Scorpiones, Buthidae) from  Southwestern Asia. Journal of Arachnology, 26: 1-8.  PDF file

 

Sissom, W. D., V. Fet & M. E. Braunwalder. 1998. Case 3031. Paruroctonus Werner, 1934 (Arachnida, Scorpiones): proposed conservation. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 55(1): 17-19. PDF file  see also ICZN, Opinion 1934

 

1997

Fet, V. 1997a. Neohemibuthus zarudnyi (Birula, 1903) from Iran, a senior synonym of N. kinzelbachi Lourenco, 1996 (Scorpiones, Buthidae). Revue Arachnologique, 12(6): 65-68. PDF file

 

Fet, V. 1997b. Note on  Euscorpius carpathicus (Linnaeus, 1767) (Scorpiones, Chactidae) from the Crimea. Journal of Arachnology, 25: 106-108. PDF file.

 

Fet, V. 1997c. Notes on the taxonomy of some Old World scorpions (Scorpiones: Buthidae, Chactidae, Ischnuridae, Scorpionidae). Journal of Arachnology, 25(3): 245-250. PDF file.

 

Fet, V. & M. E. Braunwalder. 1997. On the true authorship and taxonomic history of Euscorpius germanus (C. L. Koch, 1837) (nec C. L. Koch, 1836; nec Schaeffer, 1766) (Scorpiones: Chactidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society, 10(8): 308-310.

 

Fet, V. & W. D. Sissom. 1997. A new generic synonymy in scorpions: Scorpiobuthus Werner 1939 =Uroplectes Peters 1862 (Scorpiones: Buthidae). Journal of Arachnology, 25(3): 408-409.  PDF file

 

Gitelman, S. E., M. Kobrin, A. Lee, V. Fet, K. Lyons and B. L. M. Hogan. 1997. Structure and sequence of the mouse Bmp6 gene. Mammalian Genome, 8: 212-214. PDF file

 

1994 

Fet, V. 1994a. Fauna and zoogeography of scorpions (Arachnida: Scorpiones) in Turkmenistan. In V. Fet & K. I. Atamuradov (eds.), Biogeography and ecology of Turkmenistan (Monographiae Biologicae 72), pp. 525-534. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. PDF file

 

Fet, V. 1994b.  Introduction:  One hundred years of natural history in Turkmenistan.  Pp. 1-4  In: Fet, V. and K. I. Atamuradov (Eds). Biogeography  and Ecology of Turkmenistan.  Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.  PDF file

 

Fet, V. 1994c.  Biogeographic position of  Khorassan-Kopetdagh.  Pp. 197-203  In: Fet, V. and K. I. Atamuradov (Eds).  Biogeography and Ecology of Turkmenistan.  Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.

 

Fet, V. & R. M. Vezzetti.  1994.  PCR amplification of mitochondrial DNA from preserved scorpions.  Ancient DNA Newsletter [British Museum, UK], 2(1): 14.    PDF file

 

Mikhailov, K. G., and V. Fet.  1994.  Fauna and zoogeography of spiders (Aranei) in Turkmenistan.  Pp. 499-524 In: Fet, V. and K. I. Atamuradov (Eds).  Biogeography  and Ecology of Turkmenistan.  Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht. PDF file

 

1993

Fet, V. 1993a. Notes on Euscorpius mingrelicus (Kessler, 1874) from the Caucasus. Rivista del Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali "Enrico Caffi" (Bergamo), 16(1993): 1-8.  PDF file

 

Fet V. 1993b. The spider genus Cedicus Simon, 1875 (Arachnida, Aranei, Agelenidae) from Middle Asia. Arthropoda Selecta, 2(1): 69-75.  PDF file.

 

1992

Fet, V. 1992a. Islands in a desert sea: biogeography of spiders and scorpions in Turkmenistan. American Arachnology, 46: 8.

 

Fet, V. 1992b. DNA in arachnology: update for year 1992. American Arachnology, 45: 7-11.

 

Fet, V. &  B. J. Poindexter. 1992. Genetic variation of  mitochondrial DNA in Centruroides exilicauda (Scorpiones: Buthidae) as revealed by the polymerase chain reaction.  American Zoologist, 32(5): 136A.

 

Nenilin, A. V. & V. Fet. 1992. Zoogeographical analysis of the world scorpion fauna (Arachnida Scorpiones). Arthropoda Selecta, 1(2): 3-31 (in Russian, with English abstract). PDF file

 

Poindexter, B. J. & V. Fet. 1992. PCR amplification of mitochondrial DNA provides molecular markers for biogeographic study of desert scorpions.  ASB Bull. 39(2): 100-101.

 

1991

Fet, V. 1991a. Follow the DNA Road: costs, benefits, and forecast for arachnology. American Arachnology, 44: 5.

 

Fet, V. 1991b. According to the Red Book of Turkmenistan. Bulletin of Cape May Geographic Society, 44: 12-13.

 

Fet, V. 1991c. Review of: G. A. Polis (Ed.). 1990. Biology of Scorpions, Stanford University Press. Journal of the Arid Environments (London), 31(2): 254-255.

 

Zimmerman, E.C., C.M. Jones, V. Fet, B.L.M. Hogan & M. Magnuson. 1991. Nucleotide sequence of mouse SCIP cDNA, a POU-domain transcription factor.  Nucleic Acids Research, 19 (4): 956.

 

1990

Fet, V. & Rechkin, D.V. 1990. Scorpion trichobothriotaxy: a principal component analysis. Rivista del Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali "Enrico Caffi" (Bergamo), 14 (1989): 191-206.

 

1989

Fet, V.  1989a. A catalog of scorpions of the USSR. Families Chactidae and Iuridae. In A. B. Lange (ed.). Fauna and Ecology of Spiders and Scorpions, pp. 76-98. Nauka: Moscow. (in Russian).

 

Fet, V. 1989b. A catalogue of scorpions (Chelicerata: Scorpiones) of the USSR. Rivista del Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali "Enrico Caffi" (Bergamo), 13(1988): 73-171.  PDF file: Part 1 and Part 2

 

Fet, V., M. E. Dickinson & B. L. M. Hogan.  1989. Localization of the mouse gene for Spp (2ar, osteopontine, bone sialoprotein I, 44-kDal bone phosphoprotein, tumor-secreted phosphoprotein) to chromosome 5, closely linked to Ric (Rickettsia resistance).  Genomics, 5: 375-377.  

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