Jacob "Jaap" van der Land (1935–2011), Dutch marine biologist and helminthologist. He worked at the Unesco Register of Marine Species, the European Register of Marine Species, and as curator of the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). He was head of the department of Invertebrates of the former Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie (RMNH ), presently known as the Naturalis Biodiversity Centre in Leiden, The Netherlands.

Taxon names authored

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• 1 taxon names authored by Jacob van der Land

Publications

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• Land, J. van der 1968. Florarctus antillensis, a new tardigrade from the coral sand of Curaçao. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands 25: 140–156.
• Land, J. van der & Nørrevang, A. 1977. Structure and relationships of Lamellibrachia (Annelida, Vesti-mentifera). Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab Biologiske Skrifter 21(3): 1–102.
• van der Land, J., Costello, M.J., Zavodnik, D., Santos, R.S., Porteiro, F.M., Bailly, N., Eschmeyer, W.N. & Froese, R. 2001. Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) 2001. European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels 50: pp. 357–374. Reference page. 
• Land, J. van der (ed.), 2008. UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo
• Land, J. van der 2009. Priapulida. In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) 2009. New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp.