Heinrich Simroth

Heinrich Simroth
Heinrich Simroth (1902)
Born(1851-05-10)10 May 1851
Died31 August 1917(1917-08-31) (aged 66)
EducationUniversity of Leipzig
Scientific career
FieldsMalacology

Heinrich Rudolf Simroth (10 May 1851 Riestedt (now a part of Sangerhausen) – 31 August 1917 Gautzsch near Leipzig), was a German zoologist and malacologist. He was a professor of zoology in Leipzig.

Academic career: 1888–1917 University of Leipzig.

He was a specialist for slugs. He discovered and described various new species of slugs.

Species of animals named in honor of him include:

It was thought that there is no collection by Simroth. His collection of type specimen of 43 slugs has been found Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin in 2010.

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References

  1. 1 2 (in German) "Prof. Dr. phil. Heinrich Rudolf Simroth". Professorenkatalog der Universität Leipzig | catalogus professorum lipsiensis, accessed 15 August 2009.
  2. 1 2 Glaubrecht M. (2010). "Slug(-gish) science, or an annotated catalogue of the types of tropical vaginulid and agriolimacid pulmonates (Mollusca, Gastropoda), described by Heinrich Simroth (1851–1917), in the Natural History Museum Berlin". Zoosystematics and Evolution 86(2): 315-335. doi:10.1002/zoos.201000014.