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List of malacologists

List of malacologists is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand List of malacologists rather than just read about it. In short: This is a list of malacologists, scientists who study mollusks, such as snails, clams, cephalopods, and others, in a discipline named malacology. People who specialize in studying only or primarily the shells of mollusks are sometimes called conchologists instead of malacologists.

List of malacologists — main illustration
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Reference excerpt

This is a list of malacologists, scientists who study mollusks, such as snails, clams, cephalopods, and others, in a discipline named malacology. People who specialize in studying only or primarily the shells of mollusks are sometimes called conchologists instead of malacologists. Many of these malacologists are notable for having named species and other taxa of mollusks. This list focuses primarily on people who study or studied recent taxa of mollusks rather than fossil mollusks, so only a few paleontologists are included here. The list also includes researchers who devoted some of their research effort to malacology and some to other sciences. Considering that mollusks are such a very large and diverse phylum of invertebrates, malacology in general is greatly understaffed in its research efforts. For example, there is no living malacological expert who can properly identify all the species of Onchidiidae (about 143 species). There are also not enough malacologists studying freshwater snails.

A Donald Putnam Abbott (1920–1986) United States R. Tucker Abbott (1919–1995) United States William Adam (1909–1988) Belgium Arthur Adams (1820–1878) United Kingdom (brother of Henry Adams) Charles Baker Adams (1814–1853) United States Henry Adams (1813–1877) United Kingdom (brother of Arthur Adams) Johann Christian Albers (1795–1857) Germany Joshua Alder (1792–1867) United Kingdom Frederick Aldrich (1927–1991) United States Truman Heminway Aldrich (1848–1932) United States, civil engineer and paleontologist César Marie Félix Ancey (1860–1906) France George French Angas (1822–1886) United Kingdom John Gould Anthony (1804-1877) United States Hermann Eduard Anton (1794–1872) Germany Allan Frost Archer (1908-1994) United States Edwin Ashby (1861–1941) Australia, expert in chitons Jean Victoire Audouin (1797–1841) France

B Kikutaro Baba (1905–2001) Japan Fred Baker (1854–1938) United States Horace Burrington Baker (1889–1971), American malacologist David Dwight Baldwin (1831–1912), Hawaii, United StatesA. Studied land snails of Hawaii. Keppel Harcourt Barnard (1887–1964) South Africa Paul Bartsch (1871–1960) American malacologist and carcinologist of German origin Frederick Bayer (1921–2007) United States Arthur René Jean Baptiste Bavay (1840–1923) France Richard Henry Beddome (1830–1911) England Henrik Henriksen Beck (1799–1863) Denmark Luigi Bellardi (1818–1889) Italy William Henry Benson (1803–1870), malacologist "United Kingdom/India/South Africa" Joseph Charles Bequaert (1886–1982) Belgium, United States David J Berg United States Leszek Berger (1925–2012) Poland Rudolph Bergh (1824–1909) Denmark Samuel Stillman Berry (1887-1984) Rüdiger Bieler (born 1955) Amos Binney (1803–1847) United States William G. Binney (1833–1909) United States Caroline Birley (1851–1907) England Hope Black (1919–2018) Australia Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777–1850) France Willis Blatchley (1859–1940) United States Caesar Rudolf Boettger (1888–1976) Germany Oskar Boettger (1844–1910) Germany Mia Boissevain (1878–1959) Netherlands Ignaz von Born (1742–1791) Austria Filippo Bonanni (1638–1723) Italy Kristine Elisabeth Heuch Bonnevie (1872–1948) biologist and Norway's first female professor Nicolas Robert Bouchard-Chantereaux (1802–1864) France Philippe Bouchet (1953–) France Jules René Bourguignat (1829–1892) France Thomas Edward Bowdich (1791–1824) England John William Brazier (1842–1930) Australia William Broderip (1789–1859) England Captain Thomas Brown (1785–1862) United Kingdom Adolph Cornelis van Bruggen (A. C. van Bruggen, Dolf van Bruggen) (1929–2016) Netherlands and South Africa Jean Guillaume Bruguière (1749–1798) France Spiridon Brusina (1845–1909) Croatia Rykel de Bruyne Netherlands James Bulwer (1794–1879) England John B. Burch (1929–) United States Robert Burn (1937–) Australia

C Frédéric Cailliaud (1787–1869) France Alfred de Candie de Saint-Simon (1731–1851) Toulouse, France. Philip Pearsall Carpenter (1819–1877) England Thomas Frederic Cheeseman (1845–1923) New Zealand Johann Hieronymus Chemnitz (1730–1800) Germany Jean-Charles Chenu (1808–1879) France Carl Chun (1852–1914) Germany George Hubbard Clapp (1858–1949) United States William J. Clench (1897–1984) United States Stefan Clessin (1833–1911) Germany Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell (1866–1948) United States Walter Edward Collinge (1867–1947) United Kingdom Matthew William Kemble Connolly (1872–1947) United Kingdom and South Africa Timothy Abbott Conrad (1803-1877) United States Charles Montague Cooke, Jr. (1874–1948) Hawaii William Cooper (1798–1864) United States Alexandre Édouard Maurice Cossmann (1850–1924) France Bernard Charles Cotton (1905-1966) Australia James Hamilton Couper (1794–1866) United States Joseph Pitty Couthouy (1808–1864) United States Georges Coutagne (1854–1928) France James Charles Cox [M.D.] (1834–1912) Australia Leslie Reginald Cox (1897–1965) United Kingdom Percy Zachariah Cox [Major General, Sir] (1864–1937) United Kingdom and Iran Henry Crampton (1875–1956) United States Joseph Charles Hippolyte Crosse (1826–1898) France Cyril Crossland (1878–1943) England Hugh Cuming (1791–1865) England Georges Cuvier (1769–1832) France

D Dezallier d'Argenville (1680–1765) France Emanuel Mendes da Costa (1717–1791) England William Healey Dall (1845–1927) United States Philippe Dautzenberg (1849–1935) Belgian Léopold de Folin (1817–1896) France Jacques Louis Marin DeFrance (1758–1850) France Pierre Denys de Montfort (1766–1820) France Richard Dell (1920–2002) New Zealand Gérard Paul Deshayes (1795–1875) France Charles des Moulins (1798–1875) France Lewis Weston Dillwyn (1778–1855) United Kingdom Heinrich Wolfgang Ludwig Dohrn (1838–1913) Germany, also entomologist Edward Donovan (1768–1837) Ireland Alcide d'Orbigny (1802–1857) France Jacques Philippe Raymond Draparnaud (1772–1804) France Wilhelm Dunker (1809–1885) Germany

E Charles Eliot, full name: Sir Charles Norton Edgcumbe Eliot (1862–1931) Arthur Erskine Ellis (1902–1983) United Kingdom [1] William Keith Emerson (1925–2016) United States Bob Entrop (1917–1987) Netherlands

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Illustrations

List of malacologists: American malacologists at a Washington meeting in 1914. Bryant Walker (1856–1936) (back left), George Hubbard Clapp (1858–1949), Truman Heminway Aldrich (1848–1932), John Brooks Henderson Jr. (1870–1923) (back right), Henry Augustus Pilsbry (1862–1957) (front left), William Healey Dall (1845–1927) (front center), Paul Bartsch (1871–1960) (front right).
American malacologists at a Washington meeting in 1914. Bryant Walker (1856–1936) (back left), George Hubbard Clapp (1858–1949), Truman Heminway Aldrich (1848–1932), John Brooks Henderson Jr. (1870–1923) (back right), Henry Augustus Pilsbry (1862–1957) (front left), William Healey Dall (1845–1927) (front center), Paul Bartsch (1871–1960) (front right).

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with List of malacologists

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about List of malacologists ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of List of malacologists

In research
List of malacologists appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry
Engineering practice reuses List of malacologists in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom
List of malacologists is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Lists of zoologists, Malacologists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life
Look for List of malacologists outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.
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Frequently asked questions

What is List of malacologists in simple terms?

This is a list of malacologists, scientists who study mollusks, such as snails, clams, cephalopods, and others, in a discipline named malacology. People who specialize in studying only or primarily the shells of mollusks are sometimes called conchologists instead of malacologists.

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