Guido Poppe

Guido Poppe
Guido Poppe
Guido Poppe
Born(1954-09-11)11 September 1954
Oudenaarde, Belgium
Known forresearch in Volutidae and Trochidae
Scientific career
Fieldsconchology

Guido T. Poppe (born 11 September 1954) is a Belgian malacologist, shell dealer, and author of more than 60 books and publications about shells, mainly about the families Volutidae and Trochidae.

Biography

The son of a sports fisherman, Poppe became fascinated in childhood by marine life during yearly holidays in Brittany, France. His first diving experiences were in these waters in 1968.[citation needed]

He developed a career as a professional freelance conchologist. This allowed him to dive in many parts of the world, in European waters and in many tropical seas from Baja California to Queensland, Australia. In 2003 he moved from Belgium to the Philippines. Most of his dives are now concentrated in the Philippines. After more than 6,000 dives, he has compiled a collection of photographs of seashells and marine life.

He was the vice-president of the Société Belge de Malacologie (Belgian Malacological Society) for eight years.[citation needed]

Scientific work

Poppe discovered more than 1000 new species of Mollusca and described more than 500 of these, mainly in the families Volutidae, Trochidae, and Colloniidae as well as the Philippine malacofauna. The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) has listed 668 marine species named by Poppe (alone or together with others such as Sheila Tagaro, Henk Dekker, Yoshihiro Goto or Salisbury) in its database. More than 40 species have been named after him by scientists from all over the world either with the epithet poppei, guidopoppei or guidoi.

In July 2004, together with his son, Philippe, he created the journal Visaya, specialising in the taxonomy of Mollusca.

He named three species after his son: the calliostoma topsnail Calliostoma philippei (Poppe, 2004); another sea snail, Calliotropis philippei (Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006); and Bayerotrochus philpoppei (Anseeuw, Poppe & Goto, 2006). He named the topsnail Calliostoma mariae after his mother, Maria Peyskens.

Bibliography

In 1999 with Klaus Groh, he started the series "A Conchological Iconography". The following volumes have already appeared:

Poppe also wrote articles in journals and magazines such as Hawaiian Shell News, Of Sea and Shore, Malacologia, Apex, Novapex, Musorstom, Informations, Gloria Maris, and Visaya.

Scientific collections

As a collector he built major conchological collections, which are now housed in museums:

Recognition

Taxonomic work

Poppe has described 538 species, genera, subgenera, families, subfamilies and tribes.

ACAVIDAE

ACLIDIDAE

ACTEONIDAE

AMATHINIDAE

ANCILLARIIDAE

ANGARIIDAE

ARCIDAE

BORSONIIDAE

BRADYBAENIDAE

BUCCINIDAE

BULLINIDAE

CALLIOSTOMATIDAE

CAMAENIDAE

CHILODONTIDAE

CLATHURELLIDAE

COLLONIIDAE

COLUMBELLIDAE

CONIDAE

COSTELLARIIDAE

CROSSEOLIDAE

CUSPIDARIIDAE

CYPRAEIDAE

DIPLOMMATINIDAE

DRILLIIDAE

EPITONIIDAE

FASCIOLARIIDAE

FISSURELLIDAE

GLYCYMERIDIDAE

HALOCERATIDAE

HARPIDAE

HORAICLAVIDAE

LIMIDAE

  • Acesta vitrina G.T. Poppe, S.P. Tagaro & P. Stahlschmidt, 2015 - n. sp.

MANGELIIDAE

MITRIDAE

NATICIDAE

NERITIDAE

NUCULANIDAE

NUCULIDAE

NYSTIELLIDAE

PHASIANELLIDAE

PICKWORTHIIDAE

PLANAXIDAE

PLEUROTOMARIIDAE

PSEUDOMELATOMIDAE

PYRAMIDELLIDAE

RAPHITOMIDAE

RISSOIDAE

SEGUENZIIDAE

SERAPHIDAE

SOLARIELLIDAE

SPONDYLIDAE

STOMATELLIDAE

TEREBRIDAE

TORNIDAE

TRIMUSCULIDAE

TROCHIDAE

TURBINELLIDAE

TURBINIDAE

TURRIDAE

VANIKORIDAE

VENERIDAE

VOLUTIDAE

References

  1. ↑ Biography of Guido Poppe Archived 25 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ "Marine Iconography of the Philippine Archipelago | Poppe-Images". poppe-images.com.
  3. ↑ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species". www.marinespecies.org.
  4. ↑ The Strandloper, June/July 1979 # 196 p. 1
  5. ↑ Bull. Soc. Roy. Sci. Liège, 50 : 519-542.
  6. ↑ Poppe, G.T. (1985). Notes on the genus Cymbiolacca (Gastropoda, Volutidae), with the description of a novel species and a novel form Inf. Soc. Belge Malac. 13(3-4): 187-209, 3 plates
  7. ↑ Poppe, G.T. (1986). A novel species and a novel subspecies of Volutidae from northwestern Australia APEX 1(1): 27-32
  8. ↑ La Conchiglia Vol 19 #218-219 p. 8-22
  9. ↑ La Conchiglia Vol 19 #220-221 p. 20-27
  10. ↑ Poppe, G.T.; Goto, Y. (1991). European seashells: 1. (Polyplacophora, Caudofoveata, Solenogastra, Gastropoda). Christa Hemmen: Wiesbaden, Germany. ISBN 3-925919-07-4. 352 pp.
  11. ↑ Poppe, G.T.; Goto, Y. (2000). European seashells: 2. (Scaphopoda, Bivalva, Cephalopoda). 2nd print. ConchBooks: Hackenheim, Germany. ISBN 3-925919-10-4. 221 pp
  12. ↑ Visaya Net, read the full article http://www.conchology.be/?t=702&year=2006&volume=20&vnet=1303
  13. ↑ Poppe, G.T. (2008). Philippine marine mollusks: I. (Gastropoda - Part I). ConchBooks: Hackenheim. ISBN 978-3939767084.
  14. ↑ Poppe, G.T. (2008). Philippine marine mollusks: II. (Gastropoda - Part 2). ConchBooks: Hackenheim. ISBN 978-3-939767-17-6.
  15. ↑ Toxicon 56, 1257-1266 - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/40683075_Seronay_R._A._et_al._Accessing_novel_conoidean_venoms_Biodiverse_lumun-lumun_marine_communities_an_untapped_biological_and_toxinological_resource._Toxicon_56_1257-1266
  16. ↑ Poppe, G.T. (2010). Philippine marine mollusks: III. (Gastropoda Part 3 & Bivalvia Part 1). ConchBooks: Hackenheim. ISBN 978-3-939767-18-3. 665 pp
  17. ↑ Poppe, G.T. (2010). Philippine marine mollusks: IV. (Bivalvia Part 2 & Scaphopoda, Polyplacophora, Cephalopdoa & Addenda). ConchBooks: Hackenheim. ISBN 978-3-939767-29-9. 675 pp
  18. ↑ Conchology.be - Visaya.net 28 August 2012
  19. ↑ "Visaya Vol. 4 No. 5 [Journal of Conchology Inc., Cebu] « Conchological MegaDatabase Iconographic Overview on Mollusks | Conchbooks". www.conchbooks.de.
  20. ↑ "Gems of the Sea: The Guido T. Poppe Collection | Houston Museum of Natural Science". Archived from the original on 15 August 2016. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  21. 1 2 "About Guido Poppe | Conchology". www.conchology.be.