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Art Powell

Arthur William Baden Powell (1901–1987), New Zealand malacologist, naturalist and palaeontologist

Auguste Ménégaux

Henri Auguste Ménégaux (17 May 1857 – 15 July 1937) was a French ornithologist and malacologist born in Audincourt.

Bartsch

Paul Bartsch (1871–1960), German-American biologist, zoologist and malacologist

Boettgerilla

The generic name Boettgerilla is named after the German malacologist Caesar Rudolf Boettger.

Clappia

Generic name Clappia is in honor of malacologist George Hubbard Clapp.

Eostrobilops hirasei

The specific name is apparently in honor either of the Japanese malacologist Yoichiro Hirase (1859–1925) or of his son Shintaro Hirase (1884–1939).

Félix Jean Marie Louis Ancey

Félix Jean Marie Louis Ancey (2 August 1835, in Marseille – 1 June 1919, in Le Beausset) was a French entomologist and malacologist.

John Jeffreys

John Gwyn Jeffreys (1809–1885), British conchologist and malacologist

Locard

Arnould Locard, Étienne Alexandre Arnould Locard (1841-1904), French malacologist

Loven

Sven Ludvig Lovén (1809–1895), a Swedish marine zoologist and malacologist

Lowson

Otto Andreas Lowson Mörch (1828–1878), biologist, specifically a malacologist

Maesiella

The generic name Maesiella is named in honor of American malacologist Virginia Orr Maes.

Maesiella maesae

The generic name Maesiella as well as the specific name maesae are named in honor of American malacologist Virginia Orr Maes.

Otto Franz von Möllendorff

The species of small snails was later named Oncomelania quadrasi by Möllendorff in 1895 after Don José Florencio Quadras, a Spanish malacologist who was also based in Manila at that time.

Paludiscala de oro snail

This name was given by its discoverer, the American malacologist Dwight Taylor, who said the name was a loose translation of his "original remarks at seeing the shells," which are surprisingly similar to those of a predominantly marine family, the wentletraps or Epitoniidae.

Paramelania damoni

--there exist two malacologist named Damon--> from Weymouth, who collected the type specimen.

Peile

Alfred James Peile (1868–1948), artillery officer, malacologist and conchologist

Pelseneer

Paul Pelseneer, full name Jean Paul Louis Pelseneer (1863-1945), Belgian malacologist.

Robert Abbot

R. Tucker Abbott (1919–1995), American conchologist and malacologist

Van Bruggen

Adolph Cornelis van Bruggen, A. C. van Bruggen or Dolf van Bruggen (born 1929), Dutch malacologist

Wilhelm Dunker

Wilhelm Dunker, full name Wilhelm Bernhard Rudolph Hadrian Dunker (21 February 1809, Eschwege- 13 March 1885, Marburg) was a German geologist, paleontologist and zoologist (specifically a malacologist).

William Swainson

William John Swainson, FLS, FRS, (1789-1855), English ornithologist, malacologist, conchologist, entomologist and artist

Zyzzyxdonta alata

The name, given to the snail by malacologist Alan Solem, is the last word in many species dictionaries, just after Zyzzyx; however, they both, in fact, precede Zyzzyzus.


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