Victor Sterki (1846 in

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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, ...

from

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who lived in the

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. He worked as an assistant in the Section of Invertebrates in the

from 1909 to 1933. Malacological collections by Sterki of

Pupillidae Pupillidae is a family of mostly minute, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Pupillidae W. Turton, 1831. Accessed through: ...

have 4000 lots and of

Sphaeriidae Sphaeriidae is a family of small to minute freshwater bivalve molluscs in the order Sphaeriida. In the US, they are commonly known as pea clams or fingernail clams. Heard, William H. 1977. Reproduction of fingernail clams (Sphaeriidae: ''Sphaeri ...

have 12,000 lots. Both collections are deposited in the

. The malacological journal '' Sterkiana'' and the land snail species ''

Guppya sterkii ''Guppya'' is a genus of gastropods belonging to the family Euconulidae. The species of this genus are found in America, Africa, Malesia. Species: *'' Guppya angasi'' *'' Guppya bauri'' *'' Guppya biolleyi'' *'' Guppya capsula'' *'' Guppya ...

'' were named after him.Victor Sterki
/ref> Pilsbry H. A. (1946). ''Land Mollusca of North America (north of Mexico), vol. II part 1'', 1946, pg. 246.

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1846 births 1933 deaths Swiss malacologists People from Solothurn {{Switzerland-scientist-stub