Philippe Dautzenberg

Philippe Dautzenberg.

Philippe Dautzenberg (Ixelles, Brussels, 20 December 1849 - Paris, 9 May 1935) was a Belgian malacologist, a biologist who specializes in the branch of invertebrate zoology that deals with mollusks. He assembled a large part of the shell collection of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, which consists of 9,000,000 specimens and is one of the three largest shell collections in the world.

References

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• Van Goethem J.L. & Backeljau T., 1997, History and value of the malacological collections of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences., In: Nudds J.R. & Pettitt C. W. (Eds.), Proceedings of the international Conference, Manchester 1995, pp. 258-262, fig. 1-6.