Victor Sterki
Victor Sterki | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1846 Solothurn, Switzerland |
| Died | 1933 (aged 86–87) |
| Alma mater | University of Bern Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München[1] |
| Known for | Research in Pupillidae and in Sphaeriidae[1] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | malacology |
Victor Sterki (26 September 1846 in Solothurn, Switzerland – 25 January 1933 in New Philadelphia, OH)[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 have 4000 lots and of Sphaeriidae have 12,000 lots.[1] Both collections are deposited in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.[1]
The malacological journal Sterkiana and the land snail species Guppya sterkii were named after him.[3][4]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Victor Sterki" Archived 2011-09-27 at the Wayback Machine. Carnegie Museum of Natural History, accessed 23 April 2011.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Victor Sterki
- ↑ Pilsbry H. A. (1946). Land Mollusca of North America (north of Mexico), vol. II part 1, 1946, pg. 246.