Heinrich Simroth

Heinrich Simroth

Heinrich Simroth (1902)
Born May 10, 1851
Riestedt
Died August 31, 1917 (aged 66)
Gautzsch near Leipzig
Nationality German
Fields Malacology
Alma mater University of Leipzig

Prof. Dr. phil. Heinrich Simroth, full name Heinrich Rudolf Simroth (10 May 1851 Riestedt (now a part of Sangerhausen) – 31 August 1917 Gautzsch near Leipzig[1]), was a German zoologist and malacologist. He was a professor of zoology in Leipzig.

Academic career: 1888–1917 University of Leipzig.[1]

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.[2] His collection of type specimen of 43 slugs has been found Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin in 2010.[2]

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  1. 1.0 1.1 (German) "Prof. Dr. phil. Heinrich Rudolf Simroth". Professorenkatalog der Universität Leipzig | catalogus professorum lipsiensis, accessed 15 August 2009.
  2. 2.0 2.1 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.

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