Heinrich Rudolf Simroth (10 May 1851 Riestedt (now a part of

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) – 31 August 1917 Gautzsch near

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), was a German

zoologist Zoology ()The pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon. is the branch of biology that studies the Animal, animal kingdom, including the anatomy, structure, embryology, evolution, Biological clas ...

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 was a professor of zoology in

. Academic career: 1888–1917

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."Prof. Dr. phil. Heinrich Rudolf Simroth"
Professorenkatalog der Universität Leipzig , catalogus professorum lipsiensis, accessed 15 August 2009. He was a specialist for

slug Slug, or land slug, is a common name for any apparently shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusc. The word ''slug'' is also often used as part of the common name of any gastropod mollusc that has no shell, a very reduced shell, or only a smal ...

s. He discovered and described various new species of slugs. Species of animals named in honor of him include: * '' Bulimulus simrothi'' (Reibisch, 1892) – snail * '' Pseudaneitea simrothi'' (Suter, 1896) – slug * ''

Arion simrothi ''Arion simrothi'' is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Arionidae, the round-back slugs. Distribution This species is found only in Germany Germany,, officially the Fed ...

'' - slug * '' Tapinoma simrothi'' Krausse, 1911 - ant * '' Bipalium simrothi'' - planarian It was thought that there is no collection by Simroth. His collection of

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of 43 slugs has been found

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in Berlin in 2010.Glaubrecht M. (2010). "Slug(-gish) science, or an annotated catalogue of the types of tropical vaginulid and agriolimacid pulmonates (Mollusca, Gastropoda), described by Heinrich Simroth (1851–1917), in the Natural History Museum Berlin". ''

Zoosystematics and Evolution ''Zoosystematics and Evolution'' is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering zoological systematics and evolution. It was established in 1898 as ''Mitteilungen aus der Zoologischen Sammlung des Museums für Naturkunde in Berlin'' () ...

'' 86(2): 315-335. .

Bibliography

* Simroth H. (1886). "Weitere Mittheilungen über palaearktische Nacktschnecken". ''Jahrbücher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft'' 13: 16-34. * Simroth H. (1891)
"Die Nacktschnecken der portugiesisch-azorischen Fauna in ihrem Verhältnis zu denen der paläarktischen Region überhaupt"
''Nova Acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Germanicae Naturae Curiosorum'' 56: 201-424, Tab. IX-XVIII 9-18 Halle. * Simroth H. (1892). "Ueber die nackten Limaciden und Testacelliden des Kaukasus". ''Sitzungsberichte der naturforschenden Gesellschaft Leipzig'': 40-49. * Simroth H. (1892–1894). Chapters Polyplacophora, Amphineura and Scaphopoda. In: Bronn H. G. (1892–1894). ''Dr. H. G. Bronns Klassen und Ordnungen des Tierreichs''. Band 3, Mollusca
Abteilung 1, Amphineura und Scaphopoda
* Simroth H. (1894). "Ueber einige von Herrn Dr. Sturany auf der Balkanhalbinsel erbeutete Nacktschnecken"
''Annalen des kaiserlich-königlichen Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums'' 9
(3): 391-394, Taf. 19. Wien. * Simroth H. (1896). "Über bekannte und neue Urocycliden". ''Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft'' 19: 281–312. * Simroth H. (1898). "Über die Gattung ''Limax'' in Russland". ''Ezhegodnik Zoologicheskogo Muzeya Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk'' (Annuaire du Musée Zoologique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg) 3: 52-57. * Simroth H. (1901). ''Die Nacktschnecken des Russischen Reiches''. St.-Petersburg. 321 pp. * Simroth H. (1910). "Kaukasische und asiatische Limaciden und Raublungenschnecken". Ezhegodnik Zoologicheskogo Muzeya Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk (Annuaire du Musée Zoologique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg) 15: 499-560. * Simroth H. (1910). ''Lissopode Nacktschnecken von Madagaskar, den Comoren und Mauritius. Unter Berücksichtigung verwandter Arten''. In: Reise in Ostafrika in den Jahren 1903–1905. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse, 2 (A. Voeltzkow, ed.), 576–622. Schweizerbart, Stuttgart. * Simroth H. (1912)
''Neue Beiträge zur Kenntnis der kaukasischen Nacktschneckenfauna''
St. Petersburg (Russia), ''Izvestiya Kavkazskago Muzeya'' 6: 1-140. * Simroth H. (1914). "Beitrag zur Kentniss der Nacktschnecken Columbiens zugleich eine Uebersicht über die neotropische Nacktschnecken-Fauna überhaupt". ''Mémoires de la Société des Sciences naturelles de Neuchatel'' 5
270
��341. Tables XI-XIV.

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