Karl Grobben (27 August 1854, in Brno – 13 April 1945, in Salzburg) was an Austrian zoologist. He graduated from, and later worked at, the University of Vienna, chiefly on molluscs and crustaceans. He was also the editor of a new edition of Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus' Lehrbuch der Zoologie, and the coiner of the terms protostome and deuterostome.

Taxonomy

Taxa named by Grobben include:

Taxa named in Grobben's honour include:

  • Gerbillus grobbeni Klaptocz, 1909
  • Sphaerophthalmus grobbeni Spandl, 1923
  • Limnadia grobbeni Daday, 1925
  • Actinia grobbeni Watzl, 1922
  • Paladilhiopsis grobbeni Kuscer, 1928
  • Raillietina grobbeni Böhm, 1925
  • Trypanophis grobbeni (Poche, 1904)