Karl Grobben (27 August 1854, in Brno – 13 April 1945, in Salzburg) was an Austrian biologist. He graduated from, and later worked at, the University of Vienna, chiefly on molluscs and crustaceans. He was also the editor of a new edition of Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus' Lehrbuch der Zoologie, and the coiner of the terms protostome and deuterostome. Taxonomy Taxa named by Grobben include: Eumalacostraca Grobben, 1892 Sagittidae Claus & Grobben, 1905 Sagittoidea Claus & Grobben, 1905 Protostomia Grobben, 1908 Deuterostomia Grobben, 1908 Taxa named in Grobben's honour include: Gerbillus grobbeni Klaptocz, 1909 Sphaerophthalmus grobbeni Spandl, 1923 Limnadia grobbeni Daday, 1925 Actinia grobbeni Watzl, 1922 Paladilhiopsis grobbeni Kuscer, 1928 Raillietina grobbeni Böhm, 1925 Trypanophis grobbeni (Poche, 1904) References 1854 births 1945 deaths Austrian carcinologists Austrian malacologists Austrian biologists University of Vienna alumni Academic staff of the University of Vienna Members of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala