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Hugo Eisig (1847, in Baden – 10 February 1920) was a German marine zoologist.

Hugo Eisig was a student of Ernst Haeckel. He served as a first assistant (1872–1909), then as a vice-director at Stazione Zoologica in Naples.

Eisig was an expert on polychaete worms and in 1887 published "Die Capitelliden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte: eine Monographie" (Volume 16 of Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel). He also wrote "Zur Systematik, Anatomie und Morphologie der Ariciiden nebst Beiträgen zur generellen Systematik"; Mitteilungen aus der Zoologischen Station zu Neapel, 21(6): 153–600 (1914).

Taxa

• Centroderes eisigii (Zelinka, 1928)
• Cerebratulus eisigii (Hubrecht, 1880)

References

• petymol Archived 2021-02-25 at the Wayback Machine Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names. E & F

1. New International Yearbook: A Compendium of the World's Progress by Frank Moore Colby
2. Google Books Correspondence, Karl Ernst Von Baer (1792-1876), Anton Dohrn (1840-1909) by Karl Ernst von Baer, Anton Dohrn
3. Google Books Die Capitelliden des Golfes von Neapel
4. WoRMS Taxon details

• 19th-century German zoologists
• 1920 deaths
• 1847 births
• 20th-century German zoologists