Spiridon Brusina (11 December 1845 – 21 May 1909) was a Croatian

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, ...

.Coan E. V., Kabat A. R. & Petit R. E. (15 February 2011)
''2,400 years of malacology, 8th ed.''
, 936 pp. + 42 pp. nnex of Collations American Malacological Society. (Listed as Špiridion Brusina with dates 1845-1908.) Together with Oton Kučera and Gjuro Pilar, he founded the Croatian Society of Natural Sciences in

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in the late 1885.

Taxa described

* '' Drobacia'' Brusina, 1904 * '' Emmericia'' Brusina, 1870 * '' Erjavecia'' Brusina, 1870 * '' Manzonia'' Brusina, 1870 * '' Spelaeodiscus'' Brusina, 1886 * '' Vidovicia'' Brusina, 1904 * '' Trochulus erjaveci'' (Brusina, 1870)

Bibliography

** Brusina S. (1865). "Conchiglie Dalmate Inedite", Wien ** Brusina S. (1866). "Contribuzione pella fauna dei molluschi Dalmati". Wien ** Brusina S. (1869)."Gasteropodes noveaux de l'Adriatique" in J. de Conchyl. XVII ** Brusina S. (1870)."Principi Malacologici", Zagreb ** Brusina S. (1870). Ipsa Chierrenghinii Conchiglie, Pisa ** Brusina S. (1870). "Saggio della Malacologia Adriatica" in Boll. Soc. Malac. Ital. VI ** Brusina S. (1870). "Monographie der Gattungen ''Emmericia'' und ''Fossarulus''". ''Verhandlungen der kaiserlich-königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien'' 20: 925–938. ** Brusina S. (1872). "Saggio secundo della Malacologia Adriatica", Ebenda ** Brusina S. (1886). "Ueber die Mollusken-Fauna Oesterreich-Ungarns". '' Mittheilungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins für Steiermark'' 22(1885): 29–56. Graz. ** Brusina S. (1904). "Zur Rettung unserer Mollusken-Fauna". ''Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft'' 36
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References

1845 births 1909 deaths Croatian malacologists Croatian scientists Members of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts Burials at Mirogoj Cemetery 19th-century Croatian scientists 20th-century Croatian scientists {{Croatia-scientist-stub