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Yevgeny Nikolayevich Kurochkin (Евгений Николаевич Курочкин; 12 July 1940 - 13 December 2011) was a Russian paleornithologist at the Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He served as President of the Menzbier Ornithological Society. He graduated from the Moscow State University in 1964. Most of his field work was done in Central Asia, Mongolia, Cuba, and Vietnam. In 1982, Kurochkin described ''Ambiortus'', which he thought to be the oldest ornithurine (modern-type bird).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mesozoic Birds )〕〔https://books.google.com/books?id=NzVGpo3M998C&pg=PA549〕 Kurochkin named the new species after his peer Georgi Petrovich Dementyev (1898-1969). Opposing the theropod origin of modern birds, Kurochkin maintained that archosaurs and dinosaurs were two distinct lineages. He repeatedly questioned the assumption that Archaeopteryx and Enantiornithes were early birds. According to Kurochkin, those moderately derived theropods went extinct without leaving any descendants.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Origins of the Higher Groups of Tetrapods )〕 He also supported the Protoavis hypothesis by Sankar Chatterjee. The ''Aquila kurochkini'' Boev 2013, an extinct eagle from Bulgaria, is named after Yevgeny Kurochkin,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Aquila kurochkini sp. n., a new Late Pliocene eagle (Aves, Accipitriformes) from Varshets (NW Bulgaria) )〕 as is the ''Longusunguis kurochkini'' Wang, Zhou, O’Connor et Zelenkov, 2014(first described in 2014). Other bird species named after Yevgeny Kurochkin are: ''Anas kurochkini'' Zelenkov et Panteleyev, 2014, ''Palaelodus kurochkini'' Zelenkov, 2013, ''Zheroia kurochkini'' Nessov, 1988, ''Falco kurochkini'' Suárez et Olson, 2001, ''Glaucidium kurochkini'' Campbell et Bocheński, 2012, ''Euronyctibius kurochkini'' Mourer-Chauviré, 1989. == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Evgeny Kurochkin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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