Heinrich Simroth

Heinrich Rudolf Simroth, was a German zoologist and malacologist. He was a professor of zoology in Leipzig.
Academic career: 1888–1917 University of Leipzig.
He was a specialist for slugs. He discovered and described various new species of slugs.
Species of animals named in honor of him include:

Bulimulus simrothi – snail
Pseudaneitea simrothi – slug
Arion simrothi - slug
Tapinoma simrothi Krausse, 1911 - ant
Bipalium simrothi - planarian

It was thought that there is no collection by Simroth. His collection of type specimen of 43 slugs has been found Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin in 2010.