Louis Charles Kiener

{{short description|French zoologist}}

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Louis Charles Kiener (31 July 1799 – 24 July 1881) was a French malacologist born in Paris.

He was the author of the 12-volume Spécies général et iconographie des coquilles vivantes comprenant la collection du Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Paris, la collection Lamarck, celle du prince Masséna (appartenant maintenant a M.B. Delessert) et les découvertes récentes des voyageurs,{{cite web |url=http://www.ansp.org/museum/digital_collections/shells/kiener.php |title=Kiener's Coquilles | Delight of Eye and Mind | Digital Collections | Academy of Natural Sciences |accessdate=2012-03-07 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224181938/http://www.ansp.org/museum/digital_collections/shells/kiener.php |archivedate=2012-02-24 }} Kiener's Coquilles translated into English as "General species and iconography of recent shells : comprising the Massena Museum, the collection of Lamarck, the collection of the Museum of Natural History, and the recent discoveries of travellers.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/creator/1176] Biodiversity Heritage Library

The following are a few species named after him:

• Lophotriorchis kienerii (G. de Sparre, 1835)
• Murexsul kieneri (Reeve, 1845)
• Thais kieneri (Deshayes, 1844)
• Cypraea kieneri (Kiener's cowry) (Hidalgo, 1906).[http://test.b-neat.org/bemon/?page=petymol.k.html petymol] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120228040851/http://test.b-neat.org/bemon/?page=petymol.k.html |date=2012-02-28 }} (list of species)