Heinrich Simroth | |
|---|---|
 Heinrich Simroth (1902) | |
| Born | 10 May 1851 |
| Died | 31 August 1917 (aged 66) |
| Nationality | German |
| Alma mater | University of Leipzig |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Malacology |
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:
- Bulimulus simrothi (Reibisch, 1892) – snail
- Pseudaneitea simrothi (Suter, 1896) – slug
- Arion simrothi - slug
- Tapinoma simrothi Krausse, 1911 - ant
- Bipalium simrothi - planarian
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]
- ^ a b (in German) "Prof. Dr. phil. Heinrich Rudolf Simroth". Professorenkatalog der Universität Leipzig | catalogus professorum lipsiensis, accessed 15 August 2009.
- ^ a b 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.