Heinrich Rudolf Simroth (10 May 1851 Riestedt (now a part of Sangerhausen) – 31 August 1917 Gautzsch near Leipzig[1]), was a German zoologist and malacologist. He was a professor of zoology in Leipzig.
Academic career: 1888–1917 University of Leipzig.[1]
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 (Reibisch, 1892) – snail
Pseudaneitea simrothi (Suter, 1896) – slug
Arion simrothi - slug
Tapinoma simrothi Krausse, 1911 - ant
Bipalium simrothi - planarian
It was thought that there is no collection by Simroth.[2] His collection of type specimen of 43 slugs has been found Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin in 2010.[2]
^ ab(in German) "Prof. Dr. phil. Heinrich Rudolf Simroth". Professorenkatalog der Universität Leipzig | catalogus professorum lipsiensis, accessed 15 August 2009.
^ abGlaubrecht M. (2010). "Slug(-gish) science, or an annotated catalogue of the types of tropical vaginulid and agriolimacid pulmonates (Mollusca, Gastropoda), described by Heinrich Simroth (1851–1917), in the Natural History Museum Berlin". Zoosystematics and Evolution86(2): 315-335. doi:10.1002/zoos.201000014.
Heinrich Rudolf Simroth (10 May 1851 Riestedt (now a part of Sangerhausen) – 31 August 1917 Gautzsch near Leipzig), was a German zoologist and malacologist...
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