List of malacologists

• Donald Putnam Abbott (1920–1986) United States • R. Tucker Abbott (1919–1995) United States • William Adam (1909–1988) Belgium • Arthur Adams (1820–1878) United Kingdom (brother of Henry Adams) • Charles Baker Adams (1814–1853) United States • Henry Adams (1813–1877) United Kingdom (brother of Arthur Adams) • Johann Christian Albers (1795–1857) Germany • Joshua Alder (1792–1867) United Kingdom • Frederick Aldrich (1927–1991) United States • Truman Heminway Aldrich (1848–1932) United States, civil engineer and paleontologist • César Marie Félix Ancey (1860–1906) France • George French Angas (1822–1886) United Kingdom • John Gould Anthony (1804-1877) United States • Hermann Eduard Anton (1794–1872) Germany • Allan Frost Archer (1908-1994) United States • Edwin Ashby (1861–1941) Australia, expert in chitons • Jean Victoire Audouin (1797–1841) France ==B==

• Kikutaro Baba (1905–2001) Japan • Fred Baker (1854–1938) United States • Horace Burrington Baker (1889–1971), American malacologist • David Dwight Baldwin (1831–1912), Hawaii, United StatesA. Studied land snails of Hawaii. • Keppel Harcourt Barnard (1887–1964) South Africa • Paul Bartsch (1871–1960) American malacologist and carcinologist of German origin • Frederick Bayer (1921–2007) United States • Arthur René Jean Baptiste Bavay (1840–1923) France • Richard Henry Beddome (1830–1911) England • Henrik Henriksen Beck (1799–1863) Denmark • Luigi Bellardi (1818–1889) Italy • William Henry Benson (1803–1870), malacologist "United Kingdom/India/South Africa" • Joseph Charles Bequaert (1886–1982) Belgium, United States • David J Berg United States • Leszek Berger (1925–2012) Poland • Rudolph Bergh (1824–1909) Denmark • Samuel Stillman Berry (1887-1984) • Rüdiger Bieler (born 1955) • Amos Binney (1803–1847) United States • William G. Binney (1833–1909) United States • Caroline Birley (1851–1907) England • Hope Black (1919–2018) Australia • Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777–1850) France • Willis Blatchley (1859–1940) United States • Caesar Rudolf Boettger (1888–1976) Germany • Oskar Boettger (1844–1910) Germany • Mia Boissevain (1878–1959) Netherlands • Ignaz von Born (1742–1791) Austria • Filippo Bonanni (1638–1723) Italy • Kristine Elisabeth Heuch Bonnevie (1872–1948) biologist and Norway's first female professor • Nicolas Robert Bouchard-Chantereaux (1802–1864) France • Philippe Bouchet (1953–) France • Jules René Bourguignat (1829–1892) France • Thomas Edward Bowdich (1791–1824) England • John William Brazier (1842–1930) Australia • William Broderip (1789–1859) England • Captain Thomas Brown (1785–1862) United Kingdom • Adolph Cornelis van Bruggen (A. C. van Bruggen, Dolf van Bruggen) (1929–2016) Netherlands and South Africa • Jean Guillaume Bruguière (1749–1798) France • Spiridon Brusina (1845–1909) Croatia • Rykel de Bruyne Netherlands • James Bulwer (1794–1879) England • John B. Burch (1929–) United States • Robert Burn (1937–) Australia ==C==

• Frédéric Cailliaud (1787–1869) France • Alfred de Candie de Saint-Simon (1731–1851) Toulouse, France. • Philip Pearsall Carpenter (1819–1877) England • Thomas Frederic Cheeseman (1845–1923) New Zealand • Johann Hieronymus Chemnitz (1730–1800) Germany • Jean-Charles Chenu (1808–1879) France • Carl Chun (1852–1914) Germany • George Hubbard Clapp (1858–1949) United States • William J. Clench (1897–1984) United States • Stefan Clessin (1833–1911) Germany • Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell (1866–1948) United States • Walter Edward Collinge (1867–1947) United Kingdom • Matthew William Kemble Connolly (1872–1947) United Kingdom and South Africa • Timothy Abbott Conrad (1803-1877) United States • Charles Montague Cooke, Jr. (1874–1948) Hawaii • William Cooper (1798–1864) United States • Alexandre Édouard Maurice Cossmann (1850–1924) France • Bernard Charles Cotton (1905-1966) Australia • James Hamilton Couper (1794–1866) United States • Joseph Pitty Couthouy (1808–1864) United States • Georges Coutagne (1854–1928) France • James Charles Cox [M.D.] (1834–1912) Australia • Leslie Reginald Cox (1897–1965) United Kingdom • Percy Zachariah Cox [Major General, Sir] (1864–1937) United Kingdom and Iran • Henry Crampton (1875–1956) United States • Joseph Charles Hippolyte Crosse (1826–1898) France • Cyril Crossland (1878–1943) England • Hugh Cuming (1791–1865) England • Georges Cuvier (1769–1832) France ==D==

• Dezallier d'Argenville (1680–1765) France • Emanuel Mendes da Costa (1717–1791) England • William Healey Dall (1845–1927) United States • Philippe Dautzenberg (1849–1935) Belgian • Léopold de Folin (1817–1896) France • Jacques Louis Marin DeFrance (1758–1850) France • Pierre Denys de Montfort (1766–1820) France • Richard Dell (1920–2002) New Zealand • Gérard Paul Deshayes (1795–1875) France • Charles des Moulins (1798–1875) France • Lewis Weston Dillwyn (1778–1855) United Kingdom • Heinrich Wolfgang Ludwig Dohrn (1838–1913) Germany, also entomologist • Edward Donovan (1768–1837) Ireland • Alcide d'Orbigny (1802–1857) France • Jacques Philippe Raymond Draparnaud (1772–1804) France • Wilhelm Dunker (1809–1885) Germany ==E==

• Charles Eliot, full name: Sir Charles Norton Edgcumbe Eliot (1862–1931) • Arthur Erskine Ellis (1902–1983) United Kingdom • William Keith Emerson (1925–2016) United States • Bob Entrop (1917–1987) Netherlands ==F==

• Paul Fagot (1842–1908) French malacologist • Jules Favre (1882–1959) Switzerland • James Ferriss (1849–1926) United States • André Étienne d'Audebert de Férussac (1786–1836) France, also a naturalist • Henri Filhol (1843–1902) France • Harold John Finlay (1901–1951) New Zealand palaeontologist and conchologist • Julian K. Finn (1970s–) Australia • Paul Henri Fischer (1835 – 1893) France • John Fleming (1785–1857) Scotland • Léopold de Folin (1817–1896) France • Charles-François Fontannes (1839–1886) France • Edward Forbes (1815–1845) United Kingdom • Lothar H.E.W. Forcart (1902–1990) Switzerland • André Franc (1911–1990s) France ==G==

• Charles John Gabriel (1879–1963) Australia • Joseph Paul Gaimard (1796–1858) France • Andrew Garrett (1823–1887) United States • Louis Germain (1878–1942) France • David Geyer (1855–1932) Germany • Theodore Gill (1837–1914) United States • Gonzalo Giribet (1970–) Spain. United States • Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748–1804) Germany • Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen (1834–1923) United Kingdom, British India • Augustus Addison Gould (1805–1866) United States • Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002) United States, paleontologist who also studied land snails. • Alastair Graham (1906–2000) United Kingdom • Jean-Pierre Sylvestre de Grateloup (1782–1862) France • Edward Whitaker Gray (1748–1806) United Kingdom • Elizabeth Gray (1831–1924) United Kingdom • Francis Calley Gray (1790–1856) United States • John Edward Gray (1800–1875) United Kingdom • Maria Emma Gray (1787–1876) United Kingdom, wife of John Edward Gray • Russell Gray (died 1948) United States • Samuel Frederick Gray (1766–1828) United Kingdom • Georg Grimpe (1889–1936) Germany • Karl Grobben (1854–1945) Austria • Simon James Grove Australia, malacologist & entomologist • Niccolò Gualtieri (1688–1744) Italy • Gerard Pierre Laurent Kalshoven Gude (1858–1924) United Kingdom • John Thomas Gulick (1832–1923) Hawaii, developed evolution theories with Charles Darwin • Robert John Lechmere Guppy (1836–1916) Trinidad. ==H==

• Fritz Haas (1886–1969) Germany • Georg Haas (1905–1981) Israel • Samuel Stehman Haldeman (1812–1880) United States • Sylvanus Charles Thorp Hanley (1819–1899) United Kingdom • Elizabeth Harper (1965–) United Kingdom • Johan Conrad van Hasselt (1797–1823) vertebratologist, he also studied mollusks from Java • Gerhard Haszprunar (1957–) Austria • Bernhard Hausdorf, Germany • William H. Heard (1935–) United States • Charles Hedley (1862–1926) United Kingdom, but mostly active in Australia • Friedrich Held (1812–1872) Germany • Joseph Heller (1941–) Israel • Henry Hemphill (1830–1914) United States • John Brooks Henderson Jr. (1870–1923) United States • Junius Henderson (1865–1937) United States • Leo George Hertlein (1898–1972) United States • Pierre Marie Heude (1836–1902) France • Joaquín González Hidalgo y Rodríguez (1839–1923), Spain • Richard Brinsley Hinds (1811–1846) United Kingdom • Shintarō Hirase (1884–1939) Japan • Yoichirō Hirase (1859–1925) Japan, father of Shintarō Hirase • Frederick George "Eric" Hochberg (1941–2023), United States • Hans Hoffmann (1896-1947) Germany • William Evans Hoyle (1855–1926) United Kingdom • Thomas George Bond Howes (1853–1905) United Kingdom • Leslie Hubricht (1908–2005) United States • George Humphrey (1739–1826) United Kingdom • Christian Hee Hwass (1731–1803) Denmark ==I==

• Tom Iredale (1880–1972) England • Arturo Issel (1842–1922) Italy ==J==

• John Clarkson Jay (1808–1891) American amateur conchologist. • John Gwyn Jeffreys (1809–1885) United Kingdom • Charles Willison Johnson (1863–1932) American naturalist and malacologist • George Johnston (1797–1855) British malacologist • Israel Heymann Jonas (1795–1851) German malacologist • Jess Jones United States • Louis Joubin (1861–1935) France • Félix Pierre Jousseaume (1835–1921) France ==K==

• Sally Diana Kaicher (1922–1999) United States, Author and Illustrator: Card Catalogue of Worldwide Shells, 1973-1992 • E. Alison Kay (1928–2008) United States • Myra Keen (1905–1986) United States • Louis Charles Kiener (1799–1891) France • Richard Kilburn (1942–2013) South Africa • Thomas William Kirk (1856–1936) New Zealand • Jared Potter Kirtland (1793–1877) United States • Wilhelm Kobelt (1840–1916) Germany • Yoshio Kondo (1910–1990) Hawaii • Dieter Korn (1958–) Germany • Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Krauss (1812–1890) Germany • Endre Krolopp (1935–2010) Hungary, interested in Quaternary and Tertiary molluscs • Tokubei Kuroda (1886–1987) Japan • Heinrich Carl Küster (1807–1876) Germany ==L==

• Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers (1821–1901) France • Frank Fortescue Laidlaw (1876–1963) United Kingdom • Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829) France • Charles Francis Laseron (1887–1959) United States, Australia • Isaac Lea (1792–1886) United States • José H. Leal Brazil • Henning Mourier Lemche (1904–1977) Denmark • Andrzej Lesicki (1950–)Poland • Michele Lessona (1823–1894) Italy • Mario Lessona (1855–1911) Italy • John Lightfoot (1735–1788) United Kingdom • David R. Lindberg (born 1948) United States • Vasiliy Lindholm (1874–1935) Russia • Karl Emil Lischke – :de:Karl Emil Lischke :fr:Karl Emil Lischke (1813–1886) Germany • Martin Lister (1639–1712) first British conchologist • Arnould Locard (1841–1904) France • Richard Thomas Lowe (1802–1874) United Kingdom • Sven Ludvig Lovén (1809–1895) Sweden, marine zoologist and malacologist ==M==

• Jules François Mabille (1831–1904) France • Frank Mace MacFarland (1869–1951) United States, Hopkins Marine Biological Station at Pacific Grove • William Macnae (1914–1975) South Africa. • Virginia Orr Maes (1920–1986) United States, malacologist associated with the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia • August Wilhelm Malm (1821–1882) Sweden • Hermann von Maltzan (1843–1891) Germany • Katharina Mangold-Wirz (1922–2003) Switzerland • Ernst Gustav Gotthelf Marcus (Ernesto) (1893–1968) Germany, Brazil, spouse of Eveline du Bois-Reymond Marcus • Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus (1901–1990) Germany, Brazil • Bruce Marshall (1948–) New Zealand, taxonomist • Patrick Marshall (1869–1950) New Zealand, geologist • Eduard von Martens (1831–1904) Germany • Friedrich Wilhelm Martini (1729–1778) Germany • Thomas Martyn (1760–1816) England • Annie Massy (1868–1931) Ireland • Charles Johnson Maynard (1845–1929) United States • J. C. McConnell (1844–1904) United States • James Hamilton McLean (1936–) United States • James Cosmo Melvill (1845–1929) United Kingdom • Auguste Ménégaux (1857–1937) France • Karl Theodor Menke (1791–1861) Germany • Artie L. Metcalf (1929–2016) United States • Friedrich Christian Meuschen (1719–1811) Germany • Louis André Gaspard Michaud (1795–1880) France, malacologist, also known as Gaspard Michaud and as A. L. G. Michaud • Jean-Louis Hardouin Michelin de Choisy (1786–1867) France • Jesse Wedgwood Mighels (1795–1861) United States • John Samuel Miller (1783–1873) United Kingdom • Pierre-Aimé Millet (1783–1873) France • Adolph Modéer (1738–1799) Sweden • Otto Franz von Möllendorff (1848–1903) Germany, malacologist • Hans Peter Christian Møller (1810–1845) Denmark/Greenland, author of Index Molluscorum Grönlandiae • Tommaso di Maria Allery Monterosato (1841–1927) Italy • John Edmund Sharrock Moore (1870–1947) United Kingdom • Otto Andreas Lowson Mörch (1828–1878) Sweden, Denmark, France • Pierre Marie Arthur Morelet (1809–1892) France • Edward Sylvester Morse (1838–1925) United States • Johann Rudolf Albert Mousson (1805–1890) France, Switzerland • Robert C. Murdoch (1861–1923) New Zealand ==N==

• Adolf Naef (1883–1949) Switzerland • Walter Narchi (1929–2004) Brazil • Kir Nazimovich Nesis (1934–2003) Russia • Geoffrey Nevill (1843–1885) United Kingdom • Wesley Newcomb (1818–1892) United States • Hugo Frederik Nierstrasz (1872–1937) Netherlands • Mark Norman (1960s–) Australia • Jean-Baptiste Noulet (1802–1890) France • Carlos Núñez Cortés (1942–) Argentina ==O==

• Charles Henry O'Donoghue (1885–1961) England • Steve O'Shea (1965–) New Zealand • Nils Hjalmar Odhner (1884–1973) Sweden • Takashi A. Okutani (1931–2025) Japan • William Erwood Old, Jr. (1928–1982) United States • Ida Shepard Oldroyd (1856–1940) United States • Tom Shaw Oldroyd (1853–1932) United States • Walter Reginald Brook Oliver (1883–1957) Australia, New Zealand • Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny (1802–1857) France • Charles Russell Orcutt (1864–1929) United States • Arnold Edward Ortmann (1863–1927) United States ==P==

• J.J.I. Alcide de Paladilhe (1814–1876) France • Paul Maurice Pallary (1869–1942) France/Algeria • Katherine Evangeline Hilton Van Winkle Palmer (1895–1982) United States, Tertiary molluscs • Christine Parent Canada, land snails • Marianna Paulucci (1835–1919) Italy • William Harper Pease (1824–1871) United States • Jean Paul Louis Pelseneer (1863–1945) Belgium • Rémy Perrier (1861–1936) France • George Perry (1771-18??) United Kingdom, naturalist and malacologist • Vladimir Pešić Montenegro • Sauveur Abel Aubert Petit de la Saussaye (1792–1870) France • Georg Johann Pfeffer (1854–1931) Germany, zoologist • Carl Jonas Pfeiffer (1779–1836) Germany • John M. Pfeiffer United States • Ludwig Karl Georg Pfeiffer (1805–1877) Germany, physician, botanist and conchologist • Rodolfo Amando Philippi (1808–1904) Germany • Jean Piaget (1896-1980) Switzerland • Henry Augustus Pilsbry (1862–1957) United States • István Pintér (1911–1998) Hungary • László Ernö Pintér (1942–2002) Hungary • Giuseppe Saverio Poli (1746–1825) Italy • Carlo Pollonera (1849–1923) Italy • Winston Ponder (1941–) New Zealand • John Ponsonby-Fane (1848–1916) United Kingdom • Guido Poppe (1954–) Belgian • Arthur William Baden Powell (1901–1987) New Zealand • Temple Prime (1832–1903) United States • Alice Pruvot-Fol (1873–1972) France ==Q==

• Jean René Constant Quoy (1790–1869) France ==R==

• Lewis Radcliffe (1880–1950) United States • Constantine Samuel Rafinesque (1783–1840) Ottoman Empire • Sander Rang (1793-1844) France • César Auguste Récluz (1799–1873) France • Lovell Augustus Reeve (1814–1865) United Kingdom • Harald Alfred Rehder (1907–1996) United States • Lois Corea Rehder (1911–1988) United States, spouse of Harald Alfred Rehder • Amanda L. Reid (1960–) Australia • Otto Wilhelm Hermann Reinhardt (1838-1924) Germany • Hendrik van Rijgersma (1835–1877) Netherlands • Jean Risbec (1895–1964) France • Antoine Risso (1777–1845) France, naturalist • Guy Coburn Robson (1888–1945) United Kingdom • Alphonse Amédée Trémeau de Rochebrune (1836–1912) France • Jean-Pierre Rocroi France • Peter Friedrich Röding (1767–1846) Germany • Landon Timmonds Ross, Jr. (1942–) United States • Gary Rosenberg (born 1959) United States • Emil Adolf Rossmässler (1806–1867) Germany • Miriam Rothschild (1908–2005) United Kingdom • Jean Louis Florent Polydore Roux (1792–1833) France • William B. Rudman (1944–) New Zealand • John Ruskin (1819–1900) United Kingdom • Vasily Ermolaevich Ruzhentsev (1899–1978) Russia ==S==

• Georg Ossian Sars (1837–1927) Norway, marine and freshwater biologist • Carl Ulisses von Salis-Marschlins (1762–1818) Switzerland • Madoka Sasaki (1883–1927) Japan • Thomas Say (1787–1834) United States • Christoffer Schander (1960–2012) Sweden, Director of University Museum of Bergen, Norway • Mattheus Marinus Schepman (1847–1919) Netherlands • Franz Xaver Alfred Johann Schilder (1896–1970) Germany • Menno Schilthuizen (1965–) Netherlands • Otto Heinrich Schindewolf (1896–1971) Germany, evolution of cephalopods • Johann Samuel Schröter (1735–1808) Germany • Gustav Schwartz (1809–1890) Austria • Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher (1757–1830) Denmark • Revett Sheppard (1778–1830) United Kingdom • Bohumil Shimek (1861–1937) United States • Robert James Shuttleworth (1810–1874) United Kingdom, Switzerland • Charles Torrey Simpson (1846–1932) United States • Heinrich Simroth (1851–1917) Germany • Claude Sionnest (1749–1820) France • Arthur Donaldson Smith (1864–1939) United Kingdom • Robert Edwards Carter Stearns (1827–1909) United States • Edward Step (1855–1933) United Kingdom • Victor Sterki (1846–1933) Switzerland • William Stimpson (1832–1872) United States • Charles Stokes (1780s–1853) United Kingdom • Adolf Stossich (1824–1900 ) Italy • Hermann Strebel (1834–1915) Germany, Mexico. • Ellen E. Strong United States • Samuel Emanuel Studer (1757–1834) Switzerland • Rudolf Sturany (1867–1935) Austria, works • Henry Suter (1841–1918) Switzerland, New Zealand • William Swainson (1789–1855) United Kingdom • Ernest Ruthven Sykes (1867–1954) United Kingdom ==T==

• Iwao Taki (1901–1984) Japan • Cesare Maria Tapparone-Canefri (1838–1891) Italy • Dwight Willard Taylor (1932–2006) United States, also paleontologist, Hydrobiidae and Physidae • Ange Paulin Terver (1798–1875) France • Johannes Thiele (1860–1935) Germany • William Theobald (1829–1908) United Kingdom • Thomas Everett Thompson (1933–1990) England • Donn Lloyd Tippett (1924–2014) American psychiatrist and malacologist, noted for his works on the family Turridae s.l. • John Read le Brockton Tomlin (1864–1954) United Kingdom • Franz Hermann Troschel (1810–1882) Germany • George Washington Tryon (1838–1888) United States • Hippolyt Tschapeck (1825–1897) Austria • Stella Turk (1925–2017) United Kingdom • Ruth Turner (full name Ruth Dixon Turner) (1915–2000) United States • William Turton (1762–1835) United Kingdom, naturalist ==V==