Stefan Clessin (13 November 1833, in Würzburg – 21 December 1911, in Regensburg) was a German malacologist.[1]
He served as a military officer, and from 1862 worked for the Bavarian railways. He was an editor of the Malakozoologische Blätter and made major contributions to Martini and Chemitz' Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet.[2][3] He conducted research of fossil mollusks as well as living species.[4]
Bibliography
- Die mollusken-fauna der umgegend von Augsburg (1871); Bericht des Naturhistorischen vereins in Augsburg, bd. XXI.
- Ueber Missbildungen der Mollusken und ihrer Gehäuse, (1873); Bericht of the Naturhistorischer Verein in Augsburg, 22.
- Deutsche excursions-mollusken-fauna, (1876), Nurnberg : Bauer & Raspe.[5]
- Clessin S. (1880). "Studien über die Familie der Paludinen". Malakozoologische Blätter (ser. 2)2: 161-196.
- Die Molluskenfauna Oesterreich-Ungarns und der Schweiz, (5 parts, 1887–90), Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe.[6]
Taxa described
Clessin named more than 90 species of non-marine gastropod mollusks, including:[7]
- Bythiospeum pfeifferi (Clessin, 1890)
- Bythiospeum tschapecki (Clessin, 1882)
References
- ^ Coan E. V., Kabat A. R. & Petit R. E. (15 February 2011). 2,400 years of malacology, 8th ed. Archived 2012-11-11 at the Wayback Machine, 936 pp. + 42 pp. [Annex of Collations]. American Malacological Society
- ^ Brann - Einslin edited by Rudolf Vierhaus
- ^ Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz Biblio.com
- ^ Clessin, Stephan In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2, S. 289
- ^ Deutsche excursions-mollusken-fauna BHL
- ^ HathiTrust Digital Library published works
- ^ WoRMS: list of species named by Stefan Clessin
- Borcherding, F.,1912 Stephan Clessin.Nekrolog Nachrichtsblatt der deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 24(2): 49-151. Biography,portrait, bibliography
- Boeters, H. D.,1967 Die Publikationsdaten der Clessin's Molluskenfaunen. Mitteilungen der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 10: 210-212. Bibliography
- Jungbluth, J. H.,1995 Zur Geschichte der deutschen Malakozoologie, XXI: Die Deutsche Malakozoologische Gesellschaft - vom 19. Jahrhundert in das 21. Jahrhundert. 1868-1993: 125 Jahre Deutsche Malakozoologische Gesellschaft. Mitteilungen der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft, 55: 1-18. Biography
- Naturforscher im Landkreis Augsburg Von Heinz Fischer, Augsburg 24. Bericht der Naturf.Ges.Augsbg/ Seite 131 - 157 / 3. Nov. 1970 135-pdf in German includes portrait.
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