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

^ 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.
^ 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.
^ 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).