Harald Alfred Rehder (June 5, 1907 – November 10, 1996) was an American malacologist. His wife,
Lois Corea Rehder (1911–1988), was also a malacologist.
He (and/or his wife) named 172 marine taxa according to the
World Register of Marine Species
The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) is a taxonomic database that aims to provide an authoritative and comprehensive list of names of marine organisms.
Content
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He graduated from
Bowdoin College
Bowdoin College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Brunswick, Maine. When Bowdoin was chartered in 1794, Maine was still a part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The college offers 34 majors and 36 minors, as well as several joint eng ...
(BA),
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
(MA),
George Washington University
, mottoeng = "God is Our Trust"
, established =
, type = Private federally chartered research university
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, endowment = $2.8 billion (2022)
, preside ...
(PhD).
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Works
* Rehder H. A. (July) 1952. ''
Harold John Finlay
Harold John Finlay (22 March 1901 – 7 April 1951) was a New Zealand palaeontologist and conchologist.
Biography
Finlay was born in Comilla, India (now Bangladesh), on 22 March 1901. He was left a paraplegic after contracting poliomyelitis at ...
, 1901-1951''. The Nautilus 66(1)
3031.
* Florence A. Ruhoff (1973), Bibliography and Zoological Taxa of
Paul Bartsch
Paul Bartsch (14 August 1871 Tuntschendorf, Silesia – 24 April 1960 McLean, Virginia) was an American malacologist and carcinologist. He was named the last of those belonging to the "Descriptive Age of Malacology".
Early life
Bartsch emigrate ...
, Biographical Sketch by Harald A. Rehder, Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, Number 143
* M. J. Sweeney & M. J. Harasewych, 1999. Harald A. Rehder (1907-1996): biographical sketch and malacological contributions. The Nautilus 113(4): 127-150, portraits
See also
*
List of malacologists
This is a list of malacologists, scientists who study mollusks, such as snails, clams, cephalopods, and others, in a discipline named malacology. People who specialize in studying only or primarily the shells of mollusks are sometimes called ...
References
American malacologists
1907 births
1996 deaths
20th-century American zoologists
Conchologists
Bowdoin College alumni
George Washington University alumni
Harvard University alumni
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