Juan Heyns, South-African helminthologist (Humansdorp, Cape Province 26 April 1929 – Pretoria 21 December 2001)

Authored over 235 papers

DESCRIBED NEW NEMATODA TAXA

Families

Aporcelaimidae 1965

Elaphonematidae 1962

Osstelidae 1962

Genera 

Afronygus 1968

Algoanema 1987 with Furstenberg

Aporcelaimellus 1965

Aporcelaimoides 1965

Aquatides 1968

Botalium 1963

Caprionchulus 1993 with Swart

Chiloplacoides 1994

Chitwoodius 1966 with Furstenberg

Cladocephalus 1991 with Swart

Clavicauda 1968

Clavicaudoides 1968

Discolamoides 1963

Elaphonema 1962

Feroxides 1968

Kochinema 1963

Laevides 1968

Makatinus 1965

Namaquanema 1993 with Swart

Namibinema 1990 with Rashid

Paracrobeles 1968

Paranygolaimus 1968

Paravulvus 1968

Penjatinema 1998 with Swart

Poronema 1963

Scapidens 1965

Sibayinema 1991 with Swart

Skibbenema 1986 with Van Reenen

Solididens 1968

Vanderlindia 1964

Species

At least 325

HONORS (Nematoda)

Heynsaxonchium Coomans & Nair 1975

Heynsnema Pena-Santiago, Guerrero & Ciobano 2008 

LINKS

http://plpnemweb.ucdavis.edu/Nemaplex/General/Obituaries/JHeyns.htm