Heinrich Balss
Heinrich Balss (3 June 1886 – 17 September 1957) was a German zoologist, specialising in Crustacea, especially decapods. He was chief conservator at the  ("State Zoology Collection") at the University of Munich, and wrote the sections on decapods and stomatopods in Heinrich Georg Bronn's seminal work  ("Classes and Orders of the Animal Kingdom"). A number of taxa are named in his honour:
Balssia Kemp, 1922
Podocallichirus balssi (Monod, 1935)
Detocarcinus balssi (Monod, 1956)
Trizocheles balssi (Stebbing, 1914)
Rhynchocinetes balssi Gordon, 1936
Ctenocheles balssi Kishinouye, 1926
Lebbeus balssi Hayashi, 1992
Galathea balssi S. Miyake & K. Baba, 1964

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1886 births
1957 deaths
20th-century German zoologists
German carcinologists
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich