Bruce Anders Marshall (born 29 March 1948) is a

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taxonomist In biology, taxonomy () is the scientific study of naming, defining ( circumscribing) and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics. Organisms are grouped into taxa (singular: taxon) and these groups are given ...

and

malacologist Malacology is the branch of invertebrate zoology that deals with the study of the Mollusca (mollusks or molluscs), the second-largest phylum of animals in terms of described species after the arthropods. Mollusks include snails and slugs, clams, ...

. He is an expert on New Zealand mollusca and has named hundreds of species and genera.

Academic career

He is a self-taught malacologist and started working at the

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in 1976. Until 2019, he was the Collection Manager of Molluscs at the Te Papa Tongarewa, where he described the largest number of new species in the history of the museum. In 2012 he was awarded a Doctor of Science degree by

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. The conferment letter described him as "the leading authority on the taxonomy and systematics of living molluscs in New Zealand". In 2018 he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement award by the Malacological Society of Australasia.

Taxa named in Marshall's honour

As of 2019, 24 species and 6 genera had been named after him. The genera are: * '' Bruceiella'' Warén & Bouchet, 1993 * '' Bruceina'' Özdikmen, 2013 * ''

Brucetriphora ''Costatophora'' is a genus of gastropods belonging to the family Triphoridae. The species of this genus are found in Australia and Malesia Malesia is a biogeographical region straddling the Equator and the boundaries of the Indomalayan and ...

'' Beu, 2004 * ''

Marshallaskeya ''Retilaskeya'' is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Newtoniellidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Retilaskeya B. A. Marshall, 1978. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.ma ...

'' Gründel, 1980 * '' Marshallopsis'' Cecalupo & Perugia, 2012 * '' Marshallora'' Bouchet, 1985

References

External links

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Mollusc Publications by Bruce Marshall
{{DEFAULTSORT:Marshall, Bruce 1948 births Living people New Zealand malacologists New Zealand biologists New Zealand marine biologists New Zealand taxonomists New Zealand zoologists