Maria Schilder

Maria Schilder, née Hertrich (4 August 1898 – 30 July 1975) was a German malacologist and chemist.[1] Along with her husband, Franz Alfred Schilder, she systematized molluscs having produced over 250 scientific papers, most on the living and fossil Cypraeidae, or cowries.[2]

Maria Schilder
Born
Maria Hertrich

(1898-08-04)August 4, 1898
Germany
DiedJuly 30, 1975(1975-07-30) (aged 76)
CitizenshipGermany
Known for250 scientific papers, most on the living and fossil Cypraeidae
Spouse(s)Franz Alfred Schilder
Scientific career
Fieldschemistry, malacology

Life

Maria Hertrich was born on 4 August 1898.[1] She was from Munich.[3] Around 1922 she married Franz Alfred Schilder.[2] They had one daughter Franzisca who died in 1961.[3]

Maria Schilder died 30 July 1975.[1]

Work

Being initially a chemist, Schilder switched her professional focus to the study of molluscs.[2] Together with her husband, Franz Alfred, Schilder studied the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.[4] The Schilders defined areas of endemism throughout the Indo-West Pacific based on mollusk distributions.[5] Along with her husband, Schilder identified geographically distinct races (or subspecies) and recognized them taxonomically.[4]

In “Revision of the Genus Monetaria (Cypraeidae)” they researched how Bergmann’s Rule applied to east coastal Australia where the shells are smaller in the warmer north.[6] Together the Schilders wrote over 250 scientific papers, most on the living and fossil Cypraeidae, or cowries.[2]

After the death of her husband, Schilder published A Catalog of Living and Fossil Cowries in 1971.[7]

Schilder is honored in the cowry name Annepona mariae (Schilder, 1927) and her daughter Franzisca is honored in the cowry name Bistolida hirundo francisca (Schilder & Schilder, 1938).[3]

Publications (selection)
  • 1930 – Variationsstatistische studien an Monetaria annulus (Moll. Gastr. Cypraeidae)
  • 1938 – Prodrome of a monograph on living Cypraeidae
  • 1949 – Beiträge zur taxonomischen Zoologie
  • 1952 – Die Kaurischnecke
  • 1954 – Zahl und Verbreitung der Käfer
  • 1971 – A catalogue of living and fossil cowries. Taxonomy and bibliography of Triviacea and Cypraeacea

References
  1. "Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names". www.bemon.loven.gu.se. Archived from the original on 2020-08-02. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  2. Parenti, Lynne; Ebach, Malte (2009-11-18). Comparative Biogeography: Discovering and Classifying Biogeographical Patterns of a Dynamic Earth. University of California Press. p. 71. ISBN 978-0-520-94439-8.
  3. "Franz Alfred Schilder | Shellers From the Past and Present". www.conchology.be. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  4. Parenti, Lynne; Ebach, Malte (2009-11-18). Comparative Biogeography: Discovering and Classifying Biogeographical Patterns of a Dynamic Earth. University of California Press. p. 69. ISBN 978-0-520-94439-8.
  5. Williams, David Mervyn; Knapp, Sandra (2010). Beyond Cladistics: The Branching of a Paradigm. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-26772-5.
  6. Hogendorn, Jan; Johnson, Marion (2003-09-18). The Shell Money of the Slave Trade. Cambridge University Press. p. 162. ISBN 978-0-521-54110-7.
  7. Schilder, Maria; Schilder, Franz Alfred (1971). A Catalogue of Living and Fossil Cowries: Taxonomy and Bibliography of Triviacea and Cypraeacea, (Gastropeda Prosebranehia). Institut royal des sciences naturelles de Belgique, r. Vautier, 31.
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