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List of malacologists

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[[File:Malacologists 1914.png|thumb|American malacologists at a Washington meeting in 1914.

Bryant Walker (1856–1936) (back left),

George Hubbard Clapp (1858–1949),

Truman Heminway Aldrich (1848–1932),

John Brooks Henderson Jr. (1870–1923) (back right),

Henry Augustus Pilsbry (1862–1957) (front left),

William Healey Dall (1845–1927) (front center),

Paul Bartsch (1871–1960) (front right).]]

This is a list of malacologists, scientists who study mollusks, such as snails, clams, cephalopods, and others, in a discipline named malacology. People who specialize in studying only or primarily the shells of mollusks are sometimes called conchologists instead of malacologists. Many of these malacologists are notable for having named species and other taxa of mollusks.

This list focuses primarily on people who study or studied recent taxa of mollusks rather than fossil mollusks, so only a few paleontologists are included here. The list also includes researchers who devoted some of their research effort to malacology and some to other sciences.{{Cite web|author1=Coan, Eugene |author2=Kabat, Alan R. |name-list-style=amp|year=2014|publisher=American Malacological Society|title=2,400 Years of Malacology|url=http://www.malacological.org/downloads/epubs/2400-years/2400yrs_of_Malacology_complete.pdf}}{{Cite web|title=Alphabetical Listing of Conchologists - Malacologists|publisher= Illinois Natural History Survey|url=http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/~ksc/Malacologists/FamousMalacologists.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140709150756/http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/~ksc/Malacologists/FamousMalacologists.html |archivedate=9 July 2014|url-status=live}}

Considering that mollusks are such a very large and diverse phylum of invertebrates, malacology in general is greatly understaffed in its research efforts.{{cite journal|last=Lydeard |first=C. |author2=Cowie, R. |author3=Ponder, W.F. |display-authors=etal |date=April 2004 |title=The global decline of nonmarine mollusks |journal=BioScience |volume=54 |issue=4 |pages=321–330 |doi=10.1641/0006-3568(2004)054[0321:TGDONM]2.0.CO;2 |doi-access= }} For example, there is no living malacological expert who can properly identify all the species of Onchidiidae (about 143 species).Dayrat B. (2009) "Review of the current knowledge of the systematics of Onchidiidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata) with a checklist of nominal species". Zootaxa 2068: 1–26. [http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2009/f/z02068p026f.pdf preview]. {{doi|10.11646/zootaxa.2068.1.1}} There are also not enough malacologists studying freshwater snails.Strong E. E., Gargominy O., Ponder W. F. & Bouchet P. (2008). "Global Diversity of Gastropods (Gastropoda; Mollusca) in Freshwater". Hydrobiologia 595: 149–166. {{hdl|10088/7390}} {{doi|10.1007/s10750-007-9012-6}}.

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Further reading

  • Coan E. V., Kabat A. R. & Petit R. E. (15 February 2009). [https://web.archive.org/web/20181005154552/http://www.malacological.org/publications/2400_malacology.html 2,400 years of malacology, 6th ed.], 830 pp. & 32 pp. [Annex of Collations]. American Malacological Society
  • Coan E. V., Kabat A. R. & Petit R. E. (15 February 2011). [http://www.malacological.org/publications/2400_malacology.php 2,400 years of malacology, 8th ed.], 936 pp. + 42 pp. [Annex of Collations]. American Malacological Society
  • Coan E. V., Kabat A. R. & Petit R. E. (8 March 2012). [https://web.archive.org/web/20121111161316/http://www.malacological.org/publications/2400_malacology.php 2,400 years of malacology, 9th ed.], 1024 pp. + 76 pp. [Annex of Collations]. American Malacological Society
  • Coan E. V. & Kabat A. R. (8 January 2016). [http://www.malacological.org/2004_malacology.html 2,400 years of malacology, 13th ed.], 1254 pp. American Malacological Society
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20091026101122/http://www.conchsoc.org/eminent/conchologists.php Biographies and bibliographies of eminent conchologists] at Conchological Society of Great Britain & Ireland website
  • [http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/~ksc/Malacologists/FamousMalacologists.html Alphabetical Listing of Conchologists – Malacologists]
  • Abbott, R. T. & Young M. E. (eds.) (1973). American Malacologists: A national register of professional and amateur malacologists and private shell collectors and biographies of early American mollusk workers born between 1618 and 1900. American Malacologists, Falls Church, Virginia. Consolidated/Drake Press, Philadelphia. 494 pp.

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