Stefan Clessin (13 November 1833, in Würzburg – 21 December 1911, in Regensburg) was a German malacologist.[1]

He served as a military officer, and from 1862 worked for the Bavarian railways. He was an editor of the Malakozoologische Blätter and made major contributions to Martini and Chemitz' Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet.[2][3] He conducted research of fossil mollusks as well as living species.[4]

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Taxa described

Clessin named more than 90 species of non-marine gastropod mollusks, including:[7]

References

  1. ^ Coan E. V., Kabat A. R. & Petit R. E. (15 February 2011). 2,400 years of malacology, 8th ed. Archived 2012-11-11 at the Wayback Machine, 936 pp. + 42 pp. [Annex of Collations]. American Malacological Society
  2. ^ Brann - Einslin edited by Rudolf Vierhaus
  3. ^ Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz Biblio.com
  4. ^ Clessin, Stephan In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2, S. 289
  5. ^ Deutsche excursions-mollusken-fauna BHL
  6. ^ HathiTrust Digital Library published works
  7. ^ WoRMS: list of species named by Stefan Clessin


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