Otto Franz von Möllendorff

Otto Franz von Möllendorff (24 December 1848 – 17 August 1903)[1] was a German scientist, a malacologist. In 1894, Jose Rizal sent (from Dapitan) to Möllendorff (who was in Manila at that time) specimens of large sea snails known as tun shells together with some specimens of a species of small freshwater snails stored in glass vials. The species of small snails was later named Oncomelania quadrasi by Möllendorff in 1895 in honour of Don José Florencio Quadras, a Spanish malacologist who was also based in Manila at that time.[2]

A species of rat snake, Elaphe moellendorffi, is named in his honor.[3]

Bibliography

Reisen im Archipel der Philippinen.
WoRMS : list of marine species named by Otto Franz von Möllendorff.

References

Coan EV, Kabat AR, Petit RE (15 February 2009). 2,400 years of malacology, 6th ed. Archived 2018-10-05 at the Wayback Machine, 830 pp. & 32 pp. [Annex of Collations]. American Malacological Society.
Davis GM (1979). "The origin and evolution of the gastropod family Pomatiopsidae, with emphasis on the Mekong river Triculinae". Academy of natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Monograph 20: 1-120. ISBN 978-1-4223-1926-0. at Google Books.
Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Moellendorff", p. 181).

External links

Works by or about Otto Franz von Möllendorff at Internet Archive.
Obituary: W. Kobelt, 1903. Otto Franz von Moellendorff. Journal of Malacology 10(4): 122-125, pl. 11[1] [translated by D. F. Heynemann, from Kobelt (1903), Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 35(11- 12): 161-167].

Kobelt, W. (1903). "Otto Franz von Moellendorff". Journal of Malacology. 10 (4): 122–125.

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[1] Coan EV, Kabat AR, Petit RE (15 February 2009). 2,400 years of malacology, 6th ed. Archived 2018-10-05 at the Wayback Machine, 830 pp. & 32 pp. [Annex of Collations]. American Malacological Society.

[Davis_1979-2] Davis GM (1979). "The origin and evolution of the gastropod family Pomatiopsidae, with emphasis on the Mekong river Triculinae". Academy of natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Monograph 20: 1-120. ISBN 978-1-4223-1926-0. at Google Books.

[3] Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Moellendorff", p. 181).

[4] Kobelt, W. (1903). "Otto Franz von Moellendorff". Journal of Malacology. 10 (4): 122–125.