František Vejdovský

František Vejdovský (24 October 1849 in Kouřim – 4 December 1939 in Prague) was a Czech zoologist and served as an influential professor of zoology at Charles University from 1892 to 1921.

[1] Vejdovsky was born in Kouřim and educated at a Latin school and then at Charles University.

He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge during the Darwin centenary celebrations in 1909.

[3] In 2007 the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature ruled that the family "Tubificidae" was a junior synonym of Naididae.

[4] He was the first biologist to distinguish between nematodes and gordiids when he named a group to contain the horsehair worms the order Nematomorpha.