Victor Sterki

Victor Sterki
Born 1846
Solothurn, Switzerland
Died 1933 (aged 8687)
Residence Ohio
Fields malacology
Alma mater University of Bern and Munich University[1]
Known for research in Pupillidae and in Sphaeriidae[1]

Victor Sterki (1846 in Solothurn, Switzerland - 1933)[1] was a malacologist from Switzerland who lived in the United States.[2]

He worked as an assistant in the Section of Invertebrates in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History from 1909 to 1933.[1]

Malacological collections by Sterki of Pupillidae has 4000 lots and of Sphaeriidae has 12,000 lots.[1] Both collections are deposited in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.[1]

The malacological journal Sterkiana and the snail species Guppya sterkii were named after him.[3][4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Victor Sterki". Carnegie Museum of Natural History, accessed 23 April 2011.
  2. Coan E. V., Kabat A. R. & Petit R. E. (15 February 2011). 2,400 years of malacology, 8th ed., 936 pp. + 42 pp. [Annex of Collations]. American Malacological Society
  3. Victor Sterki
  4. Pilsbry H. A. (1946). Land Mollusca of North America (north of Mexico), vol. II part 1, 1946, pg. 246.


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