Otto Franz von Möllendorff

Otto Franz von Möllendorff

Otto Franz von Möllendorff (24 December 1848 – 17 August 1903)^[1] was a German scientist, a malacologist. In 1894, Jose Rizal sent (from Dapitan) to Möllendorff (who was in Manila at that time) specimens of large sea snails known as tun shells together with some specimens of a species of small freshwater snails stored in glass vials. The species of small snails was later named Oncomelania quadrasi by Möllendorff in 1895 in honour of Don José Florencio Quadras, a Spanish malacologist who was also based in Manila at that time.^[2]

A species of rat snake, Orthriophis moellendorffi, is named in his honor.^[3]

Bibliography

• Reisen im Archipel der Philippinen.
• WoRMS : list of marine species named by Otto Franz von Möllendorff.

References

1. Coan EV, Kabat AR, Petit RE (15 February 2009). 2,400 years of malacology, 6th ed., 830 pp. & 32 pp. [Annex of Collations]. American Malacological Society.
2. Davis GM (1979). "The origin and evolution of the gastropod family Pomatiopsidae, with emphasis on the Mekong river Triculinae". Academy of natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Monograph 20: 1-120. ISBN 978-1-4223-1926-0. at Google Books.
3. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Moellendorff", p. 181).

External links

• Works by or about Otto Franz von Möllendorff at Internet Archive.