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