Victor Sterki (1846 in
Solothurn, Switzerland – 1933)
["Victor Sterki"](_blank)
. Carnegie Museum of Natural History, accessed 23 April 2011. was a
malacologist from
Switzerland
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who lived in the
United States.
He worked as an assistant in the Section of Invertebrates in the
Carnegie Museum of Natural History from 1909 to 1933.
Malacological collections by Sterki of
Pupillidae 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
Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
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.]
References
1846 births
1933 deaths
Swiss malacologists
People from Solothurn
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