Volker Mahnert

Volker Mahnert was one of three sons of Klaus Mahnert and Hanna Mahnert, née Kindl. In 1971, under the supervision of Heinz Janetschek (1913–1997), he received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Innsbruck with a dissertation on ento- and ectoparasites of small mammals of the Central Eastern Alps (North Tyrol).

In the same year, he moved to Switzerland and became a curator at the Department of Herpetology and Ichthyology at the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la Ville de Genève. From 1989 to 2005 he was director of the museum. In 1991 he became an associate professor at the University of Geneva.

Volker Mahnert was the author or co-author of over 170 scientific articles. Most of them deal with the systematics and ecology of pseudoscorpions. He also worked on the taxonomy of fleas as well as African and South American tetras (Alestidae and Characidae).

Mahnert has been a member of the American Society of Arachnology, the British Society of Arachnology, the Society Suisse de Zoologie, the Swiss Entomological Society (SEG), the Société zoologique de France, the European Association of Zoological Nomenclature, the International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature (since 1991), the Biological Society of Washington, the Société Europénne d'Arachnologie, the New York Academy of Sciences and the Société internationale de biospéologie.

He served as president of the International Society of Arachnology between 1989 and 1992.^[1]

• See Category:Taxa named by Volker Mahnert

• Gery, Jacques; Mahnert, Volker (1986). "A new rummy-nose tetra from the Rio Negro, Brazil: Hemigrammus bleheri n.sp. (Characidae, Tetragonopterinae), with comments on Paracheirodon". Tropical Fish Hobbyist. 34 (11): 37–52. Retrieved 18 June 2020^[2]