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Prof. Dr Pavel Stoev, Director of the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia
Prof. Dr Pavel Stoev, Director of the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia

Pavel Stoev

(Professor Dr)
phone: (+359 2) 9885116 (ext. 685); e-mail:

Born: 5 December 1973, Targovishte.
Education: Sofia University (1998).
Speciality: zoologist.

Research interests


Taxonomy of Myriapoda (Chilopoda, Diplopoda); Biospeleology; Herpetology; Cybertaxonomy; Open Science publishing methods.

Current projects


Cybertaxonomic approach to phylogenetic studies of model invertebrate genera (Invertebrata, Arachnida, Insecta) clarifyng the problems of origin, formation and conservation of the Invertebrate Fauna of the Balkan Peninsula (National Science Fund, Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Bulgaria, Grant KP-06-Н21/1-17.12.2018)
New Callipodida from Europe and Asia
Cave fauna of Koytendag, Turkmenistan
Lithobiomorpha and Geophilomorpha of Tunisia
Revision of Lithobius lakatnicensis

PhD students


Darina Bachvarova — Shumen University Konstantin Preslavski
Boyan Vagalinski — Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research
Angel Dyugmedzhiev — National Museum of Natural History
Emilia Vacheva — National Museum of Natural History

Alumni


Ioanna Felesaki (University of Crete)

Most recent publications


Stoev, P., Sendra, A., Cabanillas, D., 2023. Quilópodos, depredadres con casi cien pies. — In: Sendra, A. (Coord.) Habitantes de la oscuridad: Fauna Ibero-balear de las cuevas. Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa, pp. 353—360.

Nguyen, A. D., Stoev, P., Nguyen, L. T. P., Vu, T. T., 2023. A new species of Paracortina from a Vietnamese cave, with remarkable secondary sexual characters in males (Callipodida, Paracortinidae). — ZooKeys, 1149: 181—195. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1149.99651

Jactel, H., Battisti, A., Branco, M., Douma, J. C., Kenis, M., Orazio, C., Robinet, C., Santini, A., Sapundzhieva, A., Seehausen, M. L., Stoev, P., 2023. Management options for non-native forest pests along their invasion pathways. — In: Jactel, H., Orazio, C., Robinet, C., Douma, J. C., Santini, A., Battisti, A., Branco, M., Seehausen, L., Kenis, M. (Eds) Conceptual and technical innovations to better manage invasions of alien pests and pathogens in forests. — NeoBiota, 84: 1—7. doi:10.3897/neobiota.84.104682

Salgado, J. M., Fresneda, J., Vila-Farré, M., Rodríguez, P., Prieto, C. E., Martínez-Ortí, A., Melic, A., Zaragoza, J. A., Barranco, P., Barrientos, J. A., Mesquita-Joanes, F., Iepure, S., Palero, F., Camacho, A. I., Garcia, L., Jaume, D., Recuero, E., Stoev, P., Baquero, E., Arbea, J. I., Beruete, E., Jordana, R., Molero-Baltanás, R., Miquel Gaju, M. J., Manuel Tierno de Figueroa, J. M., López Rodríguez, M. J., Hoch, H., Tinaut, A., Pérez, T., Miralles, A., Sendra, A., 2022. Listado de especies y subespecies cavernícolas (hipogeas) consideradas como troglobias y estigobias de la península ibérica e islas Baleares. — Monografías electrónicas SEA, vol. 11: 1—12.

Antić, D., Vagalinski, B., Stoev, P., Akkari, N., 2022. A review of the cavernicolous Trichopolydesmidae (Diplopoda, Polydesmida) from the Carpathian-Balkan arch and the Rhodope Mountains, with descriptions of two new genera and three new species. — ZooKeys, 1097: 1—46. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1097.83916

Tomaskinova, J., Geneletti, D., Grace, M., Dicks, L. V., Collier, M., Sapundzhieva, A., Stoev, P., Alcantara Valero, A. F., Longato, D., Kato Huerta, J., Orta Ortiz, M. S., De Santis, L., Balzan, M. V., 2021. Renaturing Malta: Developing a capacity-building strategy for the mainstreaming of nature-based solutions. — EDULEARN21 Proceedings. 13th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, July 5th-6th, 2021 (Gómez Chova, L., López Martínez, A., Candel Torres, I. Eds), pp. 8975—8984.

Tomaskinova, J., Geneletti, D., Dicks, L. V., Grace, M., Collier, M., Longato, D., Stoev, P., Sapundzhieva, A., Balzan, M. V., 2021. Capacity-building as an instrument to foster the implementation of nature-based solutions. — Research Ideas and Outcomes, 7: e77666. doi:10.3897/rio.7.e77666

Engel, M. S., Ceríaco, L. M. P., Daniel, G. M., Dellapé, P. M., Löbl, I., Marinov, M., Reis, R. E., Young, M. T., Dubois, A., Agarwal, I., Lehmann, P., Alvarado, M., Alvarez, N., Andreone, F., Araujo-Vieira, K., Ascher, J. S., Baêta, D., Baldo, D., Bandeira, S. A., Barden, P., Barrasso, D. A., Bendifallah, L., Bockmann, F. A., Böhme, W., Borkent, A., Brandão, C. R. F., Busack, S. D., Bybee, S. M., Channing, A., Chatzimanolis, S., Christenhusz, M. J. M., Crisci, J. V., D’elía, G., Da Costa, L. M., Davis, S. R., De Lucena, C. A. S., Deuve, T., Elizalde, F. S., Faivovich, J., Farooq, H., Ferguson, A. W., Gippoliti, S., Gonçalves, F. M. P., Gonzalez, V. H., Greenbaum, E., Hinojosa-Díaz, I. A., Ineich, I., Jiang, J., Kahono, S., Kury, A. B., Lucinda, P. H. F., Lynch, J. D., Malécot, V., Marques, M. P., Marris, J. W. M., Mckellar, R. C., Mendes, L. F., Nihei, S. S., Nishikawa, K., Ohler, A., Orrico, V. G. D., Ota, H., Paiva, J., Parrinha, D., Pauwels, O. S. G., Pereyra, M. O., Pestana, L. B., Pinheiro, P. D. P., Prendini, L., Prokop, J., Rasmussen, C., Rödel, M.-O., Trefaut Rodrigues, M., Rodríguez, S. M., Salatnaya, H., Sampaio, I., Sánchez-García, A., Shebl, M. A., Santos, B. S., Solórzano-Kraemer, M. M., Sousa, A. C. A., Stoev, P., Teta, P., Trape, J.-F., Van-Dúnem Dos Santos, C., Vasudevan, K., Vink, C. J., Vogel, G., Wagner, P., Wappler, T., Ware, J. L., Wedmann, S., Zacharie, C. K., 2021. The taxonomic impediment: a shortage of taxonomists, not the lack of technical approaches. — Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 193 (2): 381—387. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab072

Ziv, G., Beckmann, M., Bullock, J., Cord, A., Delzeit, R., Domingo, C., Dreßler, G., Hagemann, N., Masó, J., Müller, B., Neteler, M., Sapundzhieva, A., Stoev, P., Stenning, J., Trajković, M., Václavík, T., 2020. BESTMAP: behavioural, Ecological and Socio-economic Tools for Modelling Agricultural Policy. — Research Ideas and Outcomes, 6: e52052. doi:10.3897/rio.6.e52052

Vahtera, V., Stoev, P., Akkari, N., 2020. Five million years in the darkness: A new troglomorphic species of Cryptops Leach, 1814 (Chilopoda, Scolopendromorpha) from Movile Cave, Romania. — ZooKeys, 1004: 1—26. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1004.58537


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