title: Chelonological studies of L.I. Khosatzky with his annotated bibliography on turtles
abstract: This paper presents a review of the chelonological research of L.I. Khosatzky (1913–1992), a well-known Soviet zoologist-herpetologist and paleontologist from Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg). It provides an annotated bibliography of his 115 publications on turtles. Khosatzky’s turtle research was devoted to the origin of turtles, systematics, phylogeny and biogeography of fossil and recent turtles, biomechanics, morphology and evolution of the turtle shell, and the ecological physiology of turt
journal: Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS