Alan Solem
George Alan Solem, known professionally as Alan Solem, was an American malacologist, a biologist who studied mollusks.
He was one of the most renowned land snail experts of his time and had earned a reputation for his comprehensive revisions of mainly terrestrial pulmonates. He worked on land snails from all regions of the world but became particularly known for his revisions of land snails from Australasia and various Pacific Islands. His 140 academic papers dealt with the snail phylogeny, feeding patterns and reproductive strategies.
He named many taxa, amongst them about 350 species of Australian land snails, and several genera.
Some species named by him are:Ba humbugi Solem, 1983 – a species of Fijian land snailHadra wilsoni Solem, 1979 – a species of Western Australian land snailGlyptorhagada janaslini Solem, 1992 – a species of land snailAaadonta fuscozonata depressa Solem, 1976 – a subspecies of land snail