List of malacologists

[[File:Malacologists 1914.png|thumb|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).]]

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 (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
William H. Heard (1935–) United States
Charles Hedley (1862–1926) United Kingdom, but mostly active in Australia
Friedrich Held (1812–1872) Germany
Joseph Heller (1941–) Israel
Henry Hemphill (1830–1914) United States
John Brooks Henderson Jr. (1870–1923) United States
Junius Henderson (1865–1937) United States
Leo George Hertlein (1898–1972) United States
Pierre Marie Heude (1836–1902) France
Joaquín González Hidalgo y Rodríguez (1839–1923), Spain
Richard Brinsley Hinds (1811–1846) United Kingdom
Shintarō Hirase (1884–1939) Japan
Yoichirō Hirase (1859–1925) Japan, father of Shintarō Hirase
Frederick George "Eric" Hochberg (1941–2023), United States
Hans Hoffmann (1896-1947) Germany
William Evans Hoyle (1855–1926) United Kingdom
Thomas George Bond Howes (1853–1905) United Kingdom
Leslie Hubricht (1908–2005) United States
George Humphrey (1739–1826) United Kingdom
Christian Hee Hwass (1731–1803) Denmark

I

Tom Iredale (1880–1972) England
Arturo Issel (1842–1922) Italy

J

John Clarkson Jay (1808–1891) American amateur conchologist. [http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/~ksc/Malacologists/JayJC.html]
John Gwyn Jeffreys (1809–1885) United Kingdom
Charles Willison Johnson (1863–1932) American naturalist and malacologist
George Johnston (1797–1855) British malacologist
Israel Heymann Jonas (1795–1851) German malacologist
Jess Jones United States
Louis Joubin (1861–1935) France
Félix Pierre Jousseaume (1835–1921) France

K

Sally Diana Kaicher (1922–1999) United States, Author and Illustrator: Card Catalogue of Worldwide Shells, 1973-1992
E. Alison Kay (1928–2008) United States
Myra Keen (1905–1986) United States
Louis Charles Kiener (1799–1891) France
Richard Kilburn (1942–2013) South Africa
Thomas William Kirk (1856–1936) New Zealand
Jared Potter Kirtland (1793–1877) United States
Wilhelm Kobelt (1840–1916) Germany
Yoshio Kondo (1910–1990) Hawaii
Dieter Korn (1958–) Germany
Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Krauss (1812–1890) Germany
Endre Krolopp (1935–2010) Hungary, interested in Quaternary and Tertiary molluscs
Tokubei Kuroda (1886–1987) Japan
Heinrich Carl Küster (1807–1876) Germany
August Wilhelm Malm (1821–1882) Sweden
Hermann von Maltzan (1843–1891) Germany
Katharina Mangold-Wirz (1922–2003) Switzerland
Ernst Gustav Gotthelf Marcus (Ernesto) (1893–1968) Germany, Brazil, spouse of Eveline du Bois-Reymond Marcus
Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus (1901–1990) Germany, Brazil
Bruce Marshall (1948–) New Zealand, taxonomist
Patrick Marshall (1869–1950) New Zealand, geologist
Eduard von Martens (1831–1904) Germany
Friedrich Wilhelm Martini (1729–1778) Germany
Thomas Martyn (1760–1816) England
Annie Massy (1868–1931) Ireland
Charles Johnson Maynard (1845–1929) United States
J. C. McConnell (1844–1904) United States
James Hamilton McLean (1936–) United States
James Cosmo Melvill (1845–1929) United Kingdom
Auguste Ménégaux (1857–1937) France
Karl Theodor Menke (1791–1861) Germany
Artie L. Metcalf (1929–2016) United States
Friedrich Christian Meuschen (1719–1811) Germany
Louis André Gaspard Michaud (1795–1880) France, malacologist, also known as Gaspard Michaud and as A. L. G. Michaud
Jean-Louis Hardouin Michelin de Choisy (1786–1867) France
Jesse Wedgwood Mighels (1795–1861) United States
John Samuel Miller (1783–1873) United Kingdom
Pierre-Aimé Millet (1783–1873) France
Adolph Modéer (1738–1799) Sweden
Otto Franz von Möllendorff (1848–1903) Germany, malacologist
Hans Peter Christian Møller (1810–1845) Denmark/Greenland, author of Index Molluscorum Grönlandiae
Tommaso di Maria Allery Monterosato (1841–1927) Italy
John Edmund Sharrock Moore (1870–1947) United Kingdom
Otto Andreas Lowson Mörch (1828–1878) Sweden, Denmark, France
Pierre Marie Arthur Morelet (1809–1892) France
Edward Sylvester Morse (1838–1925) United States
Johann Rudolf Albert Mousson (1805–1890) France, Switzerland
Henry Augustus Pilsbry (1862–1957) United States
István Pintér (1911–1998) Hungary
László Ernö Pintér (1942–2002) Hungary
Giuseppe Saverio Poli (1746–1825) Italy
Carlo Pollonera (1849–1923) Italy
Winston Ponder (1941–) New Zealand
John Ponsonby-Fane (1848–1916) United Kingdom
Guido Poppe (1954–) Belgian
Arthur William Baden Powell (1901–1987) New Zealand
Temple Prime (1832–1903) United States
Alice Pruvot-Fol (1873–1972) France

Q

Jean René Constant Quoy (1790–1869) France

R

Lewis Radcliffe (1880–1950) United States
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque (1783–1840) Ottoman Empire
Sander Rang (1793-1844) France
César Auguste Récluz (1799–1873) France
Lovell Augustus Reeve (1814–1865) United Kingdom
Harald Alfred Rehder (1907–1996) United States
Lois Corea Rehder (1911–1988) United States, spouse of Harald Alfred Rehder
Amanda L. Reid (1960–) Australia
Otto Wilhelm Hermann Reinhardt (1838-1924) Germany
Hendrik van Rijgersma (1835–1877) Netherlands
Jean Risbec (1895–1964) France
Antoine Risso (1777–1845) France, naturalist
Guy Coburn Robson (1888–1945) United Kingdom
Alphonse Amédée Trémeau de Rochebrune (1836–1912) France
Jean-Pierre Rocroi France
Peter Friedrich Röding (1767–1846) Germany
Landon Timmonds Ross, Jr. (1942–) United States
Gary Rosenberg (born 1959) United States
Emil Adolf Rossmässler (1806–1867) Germany
Miriam Rothschild (1908–2005) United Kingdom
Jean Louis Florent Polydore Roux (1792–1833) France
William B. Rudman (1944–) New Zealand
John Ruskin (1819–1900) United Kingdom
Vasily Ermolaevich Ruzhentsev (1899–1978) Russia

S

Georg Ossian Sars (1837–1927) Norway, marine and freshwater biologist
Carl Ulisses von Salis-Marschlins (1762–1818) Switzerland
Madoka Sasaki (1883–1927) Japan
Thomas Say (1787–1834) United States
Christoffer Schander (1960–2012) Sweden, Director of University Museum of Bergen, Norway
Mattheus Marinus Schepman (1847–1919) Netherlands
Franz Xaver Alfred Johann Schilder (1896–1970) Germany
Menno Schilthuizen (1965–) Netherlands
Otto Heinrich Schindewolf (1896–1971) Germany, evolution of cephalopods
Johann Samuel Schröter (1735–1808) Germany
Gustav Schwartz (1809–1890) Austria
Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher (1757–1830) Denmark
Revett Sheppard (1778–1830) United Kingdom
Bohumil Shimek (1861–1937) United States
Robert James Shuttleworth (1810–1874) United Kingdom, Switzerland
Charles Torrey Simpson (1846–1932) United States
Heinrich Simroth (1851–1917) Germany
Claude Sionnest (1749–1820) France
Arthur Donaldson Smith (1864–1939) United Kingdom
Robert Edwards Carter Stearns (1827–1909) United States
Edward Step (1855–1933) United Kingdom
Victor Sterki (1846–1933) Switzerland
William Stimpson (1832–1872) United States
Charles Stokes (1780s–1853) United Kingdom
Adolf Stossich (1824–1900) Italy
Hermann Strebel (1834–1915) Germany, Mexico.
Ellen E. Strong United States
Samuel Emanuel Studer (1757–1834) Switzerland
Rudolf Sturany (1867–1935) Austria, works
Henry Suter (1841–1918) Switzerland, New Zealand
William Swainson (1789–1855) United Kingdom
Ernest Ruthven Sykes (1867–1954) United Kingdom
Dwight Willard Taylor (1932–2006) United States, also paleontologist, Hydrobiidae and Physidae
Ange Paulin Terver (1798–1875) France
Johannes Thiele (1860–1935) Germany
William Theobald (1829–1908) United Kingdom
Thomas Everett Thompson (1933–1990) England
Donn Lloyd Tippett (1924–2014) American psychiatrist and malacologist, noted for his works on the family Turridae s.l.
John Read le Brockton Tomlin (1864–1954) United Kingdom
Franz Hermann Troschel (1810–1882) Germany
George Washington Tryon (1838–1888) United States
Hippolyt Tschapeck (1825–1897) Austria
Stella Turk (1925–2017) United Kingdom
Ruth Turner (full name Ruth Dixon Turner) (1915–2000) United States
William Turton (1762–1835) United Kingdom, naturalist

V

Albert Jean Baptiste Marie Vayssière (1854–1942) France, malacologist and entomologist
Michael Vecchione United States
Bernard Verdcourt (1925–2011) United Kingdom
Joseph Verco (1851–1933) Australia
Geerat J. Vermeij (1946–) Netherlands
Addison Emery Verrill (1839–1926) United States, zoologist, authority on the living cephalopods, especially the colossal squids of the North Atlantic
Emily Hoskins Vokes American malacologist and paleontologist (1930– )
Harold Vokes American malacologist (1908–1998)
Gilbert L. Voss (1918–1989) United States

W

Erich Wagler (1884–1951) Germany
Johann Andreas Wagner (1797–1861) Germany
Rudolf Wagner (1805–1864) Germany
Rudolf Graf Walderdorff (–1866) Austria
Bryant Walker (1856–1936) United States
Andrew Rodger Waterston (1912–1996) United Kingdom
Peter Ward (1949-) United States
Robert Boog Watson (1823–1910) Scotland
William Henry Webster (1850–1931) Cheshire, United Kingdom; Waiuku, New Zealand
Heinrich Conrad Weinkauff (1817–1886) Germany
Wilhelm August Wenz (1886–1945) Germany
Carl Agardh Westerlund (1831–1908) Sweden
Albert G. Wetherby (1833-1902) United States
Wolfgang Karl Weyrauch (1907–1970) South America, freshwater gastropods and land gastropods

Gilbert Percy Whitley (1903–1975) United Kingdom, lived in Australia
Nathan Vincent Whelan (1986-) United States
Andrzej Wiktor (1931–2018) Poland
Mary Alice Willcox (1856–1953) United States
Thomas Vernon Wollaston (1822–1878) United Kingdom
William Wood (1774–1857) United Kingdom
Martha Burton Woodhead Williamson (1843–1922) United States
Bernard Barham Woodward (1853–1930) United Kingdom

List of malacologists

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See also

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Further reading