List of malacologists


This is a list of malacologists, scientists who study mollusks, such as snails, clams, cephalopods, and others, in a discipline named malacology. People who specialize in studying only or primarily the shells of mollusks are sometimes called conchologists instead of malacologists. Many of these malacologists are notable for having named species and other taxa of mollusks.
This list focuses primarily on people who study or studied recent taxa of mollusks rather than fossil mollusks, so only a few paleontologists are included here. The list also includes researchers who devoted some of their research effort to malacology and some to other sciences.
Considering that mollusks are such a very large and diverse phylum of invertebrates, malacology in general is greatly understaffed in its research efforts. For example, there is no living malacological expert who can properly identify all the species of Onchidiidae. There are also not enough malacologists studying freshwater snails.

A

  • Donald Putnam Abbott United States
  • R. Tucker Abbott United States
  • William Adam Belgium
  • Arthur Adams Great Britain
  • Charles Baker Adams United States
  • Henry Adams Great Britain
  • Johann Christian Albers Germany
  • Joshua Alder Great Britain
  • Frederick Aldrich United States
  • Truman Heminway Aldrich United States, civil engineer and paleontologist
  • César Marie Félix Ancey France
  • George French Angas Great Britain
  • John Gould Anthony United States
  • Hermann Eduard Anton Germany
  • Allan Frost Archer United States
  • Edwin Ashby Australia, expert in chitons
  • Jean Victoire Audouin France

    B

  • Kikutaro Baba Japan
  • Fred Baker United States
  • Horace Burrington Baker, American malacologist
  • David Dwight Baldwin, Hawaii, United StatesA. Studied land snails of Hawaii.
  • Keppel Harcourt Barnard South Africa
  • Paul Bartsch American malacologist and carcinologist of German origin
  • Frederick Bayer United States
  • Arthur René Jean Baptiste Bavay France
  • Richard Henry Beddome England
  • Henrik Henriksen Beck Denmark
  • Luigi Bellardi Italy
  • William Henry Benson, malacologist "Great Britain/India/South Africa"
  • Joseph Charles Bequaert Belgium, United States
  • David J Berg United States
  • Leszek Berger Poland
  • Rudolph Bergh Denmark
  • Samuel Stillman Berry
  • Rüdiger Bieler
  • Amos Binney United States
  • William G. Binney United States
  • Caroline Birley England
  • Hope Black Australia
  • Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville France
  • Willis Blatchley United States
  • Caesar Rudolf Boettger Germany
  • Oskar Boettger Germany
  • Mia Boissevain Netherlands
  • Ignaz von Born Austria
  • Filippo Bonanni Italy
  • Kristine Elisabeth Heuch Bonnevie biologist and Norway's first female professor
  • Nicolas Robert Bouchard-Chantereaux France
  • Philippe Bouchet France
  • Jules René Bourguignat France
  • Thomas Edward Bowdich England
  • John William Brazier Australia
  • William Broderip England
  • Captain Thomas Brown Great Britain
  • Adolph Cornelis van Bruggen Netherlands and South Africa
  • Jean Guillaume Bruguière France
  • Spiridon Brusina Croatia
  • Rykel de Bruyne Netherlands
  • James Bulwer England
  • John B. Burch United States
  • Robert Burn Australia

    C

  • Frédéric Cailliaud France
  • Alfred de Candie de Saint-Simon Toulouse, France.
  • Philip Pearsall Carpenter England
  • Thomas Frederic Cheeseman New Zealand
  • Johann Hieronymus Chemnitz Germany
  • Jean-Charles Chenu France
  • Carl Chun Germany
  • George Hubbard Clapp United States
  • William J. Clench United States
  • Stefan Clessin Germany
  • Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell United States
  • Walter Edward Collinge Great Britain
  • Matthew William Kemble Connolly Great Britain and South Africa
  • Timothy Abbott Conrad United States
  • Charles Montague Cooke, Jr. Hawaii
  • William Cooper United States
  • Alexandre Édouard Maurice Cossmann France
  • Bernard Charles Cotton Australia
  • James Hamilton Couper United States
  • Joseph Pitty Couthouy United States
  • Georges Coutagne France
  • James Charles Cox Australia
  • Leslie Reginald Cox Great Britain
  • Percy Zachariah Cox Great Britain and Iran
  • Henry Crampton United States
  • Joseph Charles Hippolyte Crosse France
  • Cyril Crossland England
  • Hugh Cuming England
  • Georges Cuvier France

    D

  • Dezallier d'Argenville France
  • Emanuel Mendes da Costa England
  • William Healey Dall United States
  • Philippe Dautzenberg Belgian
  • Léopold de Folin France
  • Jacques Louis Marin DeFrance France
  • Pierre Denys de Montfort France
  • Richard Dell New Zealand
  • Gérard Paul Deshayes France
  • Charles des Moulins France
  • Lewis Weston Dillwyn Great Britain
  • Heinrich Wolfgang Ludwig Dohrn Germany, also entomologist
  • Edward Donovan Ireland
  • Alcide d'Orbigny France
  • Jacques Philippe Raymond Draparnaud France
  • Wilhelm Dunker Germany

    E

  • Charles Eliot, full name: Sir Charles Norton Edgcumbe Eliot
  • Arthur Erskine Ellis Great Britain
  • William Keith Emerson United States
  • Bob Entrop Netherlands

    F

  • Paul Fagot French malacologist
  • Jules Favre Switzerland
  • James Ferriss United States
  • André Étienne d'Audebert de Férussac France, also a naturalist
  • Henri Filhol France
  • Harold John Finlay New Zealand palaeontologist and conchologist
  • Julian K. Finn Australia
  • Paul Henri Fischer France
  • John Fleming Scotland
  • Léopold de Folin France
  • Charles-François Fontannes France
  • Edward Forbes Great Britain
  • Lothar H.E.W. Forcart Switzerland
  • André Franc France

    G

  • Charles John Gabriel Australia
  • Joseph Paul Gaimard France
  • Andrew Garrett United States
  • Louis Germain France
  • David Geyer Germany
  • Theodore Gill United States
  • Gonzalo Giribet Spain. United States
  • Johann Friedrich Gmelin Germany
  • Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen Great Britain, British India
  • Augustus Addison Gould United States
  • Stephen Jay Gould United States, paleontologist who also studied land snails.
  • Alastair Graham Great Britain
  • Jean-Pierre Sylvestre de Grateloup France
  • Edward Whitaker Gray Great Britain
  • Elizabeth Gray Great Britain
  • Francis Calley Gray United States
  • John Edward Gray Great Britain
  • Maria Emma Gray Great Britain, wife of John Edward Gray
  • Russell Gray United States
  • Samuel Frederick Gray Great Britain
  • Georg Grimpe Germany
  • Karl Grobben Austria
  • Simon James Grove Australia, malacologist & entomologist
  • Niccolò Gualtieri Italy
  • Gerard Pierre Laurent Kalshoven Gude Great Britain
  • John Thomas Gulick Hawaii, developed evolution theories with Charles Darwin
  • Robert John Lechmere Guppy Trinidad.

    H

  • Fritz Haas Germany
  • Georg Haas Israel
  • Samuel Stehman Haldeman United States
  • Sylvanus Charles Thorp Hanley Great Britain
  • Elizabeth Harper Great Britain
  • Johan Conrad van Hasselt vertebratologist, he also studied mollusks from Java
  • Gerhard Haszprunar Austria
  • Bernhard Hausdorf, Germany
  • William H. Heard United States
  • Charles Hedley Great Britain, but mostly active in Australia
  • Friedrich Held Germany
  • Joseph Heller Israel
  • Henry Hemphill United States
  • John Brooks Henderson Jr. United States
  • Junius Henderson United States
  • Leo George Hertlein United States
  • Pierre Marie Heude France
  • Joaquín González Hidalgo y Rodríguez, Spain
  • Richard Brinsley Hinds Great Britain
  • Shintarō Hirase 平瀬 信太郎 Japan
  • Yoichirō Hirase 平瀬 与一郎 Japan, father of Shintarō Hirase
  • Frederick George "Eric" Hochberg, United States
  • Hans Hoffmann Germany
  • William Evans Hoyle Great Britain
  • Thomas George Bond Howes Great Britain
  • Leslie Hubricht United States
  • George Humphrey Great Britain
  • Christian Hee Hwass Denmark

    I

  • Tom Iredale England
  • Arturo Issel Italy

    J

  • John Clarkson Jay American amateur conchologist.
  • John Gwyn Jeffreys Great Britain
  • Charles Willison Johnson American naturalist and malacologist
  • George Johnston British malacologist
  • Israel Heymann Jonas German malacologist
  • Jess Jones United States
  • Louis Joubin France
  • Félix Pierre Jousseaume France

    K

  • Sally Diana Kaicher United States, Author and Illustrator: Card Catalogue of Worldwide Shells, 1973-1992
  • E. Alison Kay United States
  • Myra Keen United States
  • Louis Charles Kiener France
  • Richard Kilburn South Africa
  • Thomas William Kirk New Zealand
  • Jared Potter Kirtland United States
  • Wilhelm Kobelt Germany
  • Yoshio Kondo Hawaii
  • Dieter Korn Germany
  • Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Krauss Germany
  • Endre Krolopp Hungary, interested in Quaternary and Tertiary molluscs
  • Tokubei Kuroda Japan
  • Heinrich Carl Küster Germany

    L

  • Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers France
  • Frank Fortescue Laidlaw United Kingdom
  • Jean-Baptiste Lamarck France
  • Charles Francis Laseron United States, Australia
  • Isaac Lea United States
  • José H. Leal Brazil
  • Henning Mourier Lemche Denmark
  • Andrzej Lesicki Poland
  • Michele Lessona Italy
  • Mario Lessona Italy
  • John Lightfoot United Kingdom
  • David R. Lindberg United States
  • Vasiliy Lindholm Russia
  • Karl Emil Lischke – :de:Karl Emil Lischke :fr:Karl Emil Lischke Germany
  • Martin Lister first British conchologist
  • Arnould Locard France
  • Richard Thomas Lowe United Kingdom
  • Sven Ludvig Lovén Sweden, marine zoologist and malacologist

    M

  • Jules François Mabille France
  • Frank Mace MacFarland United States, Hopkins Marine Biological Station at Pacific Grove
  • William Macnae South Africa.
  • Virginia Orr Maes United States, malacologist associated with the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
  • August Wilhelm Malm Sweden
  • Hermann von Maltzan Germany
  • Katharina Mangold-Wirz Switzerland
  • Ernst Gustav Gotthelf Marcus Germany, Brazil, spouse of Eveline du Bois-Reymond Marcus
  • Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus Germany, Brazil
  • Bruce Marshall New Zealand, taxonomist
  • Patrick Marshall New Zealand, geologist
  • Eduard von Martens Germany
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Martini Germany
  • Thomas Martyn England
  • Annie Massy Ireland
  • Charles Johnson Maynard United States
  • J. C. McConnell United States
  • James Hamilton McLean United States
  • James Cosmo Melvill Great Britain
  • Auguste Ménégaux France
  • Karl Theodor Menke Germany
  • Artie L. Metcalf United States
  • Friedrich Christian Meuschen Germany
  • Louis André Gaspard Michaud France, malacologist, also known as Gaspard Michaud and as A. L. G. Michaud
  • Jean-Louis Hardouin Michelin de Choisy France
  • Jesse Wedgwood Mighels United States
  • John Samuel Miller Great Britain
  • Pierre-Aimé Millet France
  • Adolph Modéer Sweden
  • Otto Franz von Möllendorff Germany, malacologist
  • Hans Peter Christian Møller Denmark/Greenland, author of Index Molluscorum Grönlandiae
  • Tommaso di Maria Allery Monterosato Italy
  • John Edmund Sharrock Moore Great Britain
  • Otto Andreas Lowson Mörch Sweden, Denmark, France
  • Pierre Marie Arthur Morelet France
  • Edward Sylvester Morse United States
  • Johann Rudolf Albert Mousson France, Switzerland
  • Robert C. Murdoch New Zealand