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Winston Frank Ponder (born 1941) is a noted malacologist born and educated in
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who has named and described many marine and freshwater animals, especially
micromollusc A micromollusk is a shelled mollusk which is extremely small, even at full adult size. The word is usually, but not exclusively, applied to marine mollusks, although in addition, numerous species of land snails and freshwater mollusks also r ...
s.


Education and career

Ponder graduated with an MSc, PhD (1968) and DSc from the
University of Auckland , mottoeng = By natural ability and hard work , established = 1883; years ago , endowment = NZD $293 million (31 December 2021) , budget = NZD $1.281 billion (31 December 2021) , chancellor = Cecilia Tarrant , vice_chancellor = Dawn F ...
, New Zealand. He completed his Ph.D while working at the Dominion Museum but by 1969 he had taken a position at the Australian Museum, where he has remained. Ponder was the principal research scientist in the
malacology 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, ...
section of the Australian Museum,
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, Australia and helped to build up the museum's mollusc collection so that it became one of the most extensive of its kind in the world. Ponder retired from this post after a long career of more than forty years of research on molluscs, and is now an Honorary Fellow of the museum. He has been the president of the Society of Australian Systematic Biologists, and was the managing editor of the journal ''Molluscan Research'' of the Malacological Society of Australasia. for 8 years. Early in his career, in 1964, he worked on Antarctic collections together with
Richard Dell Richard Kenneth Dell (11 July 1920 – 6 March 2002) was a New Zealand malacologist. Biography Dell was born in Auckland in 1920. As a young boy, he took an interest in shells, collecting them from the shores of Waitematā Harbour. He even ...
and Alan Beu, resulting in a major monograph on the Antarctic
bivalve Bivalvia (), in previous centuries referred to as the Lamellibranchiata and Pelecypoda, is a class of marine and freshwater molluscs that have laterally compressed bodies enclosed by a shell consisting of two hinged parts. As a group, bival ...
s,
chiton Chitons () are marine molluscs of varying size in the class Polyplacophora (), formerly known as Amphineura. About 940 extant and 430 fossil species are recognized. They are also sometimes known as gumboots or sea cradles or coat-of-mail s ...
s and scaphopods. Ponder is the author of more than 300 research publications. Many of these are on the subjects of the freshwater molluscs of Australia, and on
invertebrate Invertebrates are a paraphyletic group of animals that neither possess nor develop a vertebral column (commonly known as a ''backbone'' or ''spine''), derived from the notochord. This is a grouping including all animals apart from the chordate ...
conservation. One major contribution was a
taxonomy Taxonomy is the practice and science of categorization or classification. A taxonomy (or taxonomical classification) is a scheme of classification, especially a hierarchical classification, in which things are organized into groups or types. ...
of the
Gastropoda The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. ...
, which he published together with
David R. Lindberg David R. Lindberg (1948, U.S.A.) is an American malacologist and professor of integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the Curator for the University of California Museum of Paleontology and co-editor of the journ ...
in 1997. This was the last major publication on the taxonomy of the Gastropoda that was based on the
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of
snail A snail is, in loose terms, a shelled gastropod. The name is most often applied to land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. However, the common name ''snail'' is also used for most of the members of the molluscan class Gastro ...
s and
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 (their internal and external shapes and forms), and did not take into account any analysis of their DNA or
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. In 2008, again with David Lindberg, he edited the book "Phylogeny and Evolution of the Mollusca" in which 36 experts provided an up-to-date review on the evolutionary history of the
Mollusca Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000  extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is esti ...
, based on reinvestigation of morphological characters, molecular data and the fossil record.


Honours

In 2008 Ponder received the Australian Marine Sciences Association Silver Jubilee Award for a lifetime of achievement in research on marine molluscs. In 2009 he was awarded the Clarke Medal in recognition of his Zoological work by the
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.


Some Gastropod taxa named by Ponder


Higher taxa

* Subclass
Eogastropoda Eogastropoda was a previously used taxonomic category of snails or gastropods, a subclass which was erected by Ponder and Lindberg in 1997. It was one of two great divisions (subclasses) of the class Gastropoda, the snails. The other subclass of ...
Ponder & Lindberg, 1997 * Order
Sorbeoconcha Sorbeoconcha is a taxonomic clade of snails, i.e. gastropods, mainly marine species with gills and opercula, within the clade Caenogastropoda. The taxon Sorbeoconcha was named by Winston Ponder and David R. Lindberg in 1997. Taxonomy 1 ...
Ponder & Lindberg, 1997 * Suborder
Hypsogastropoda Hypsogastropoda is a clade containing marine gastropods within the clade Caenogastropoda. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Hypsogastropoda. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=t ...
Ponder & Lindberg, 1997


Superfamilies

* Superfamily
Glacidorboidea The Glacidorbidae is a taxonomic family of freshwater snails. Taxonomy 2005 taxonomy Glacidorbidae is the only family in the superfamily Glacidorboidea. Glacidorboidea has been classified within the informal group Lower Heterobranchia in the ...
Ponder, 1986


Families

*
Eatoniellidae Eatoniellidae, commonly known as eatoniellids, are a taxonomic family of minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Cingulopsoidea The Cingulopsoidea is a superfamily of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the cl ...
Ponder, 1965 *
Rastodentidae ''Rastodentidae'' is a taxonomic family of minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha Littorinimorpha is a large order of snails, gastropods, consisting primarily of sea snails (marine species), but also in ...
Ponder, 1966 *
Elachisinidae Elachisinidae is a family of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Truncatelloidea and the order Littorinimorpha Littorinimorpha is a large order of snails, gastropods, consisting primarily of sea snails (marine species) ...
Ponder, 1985 *
Emblandidae ''Emblanda emblematica'' is a species of sea snail, a marine aquatic operculate gastropod mollusks in the clade Littorinimorpha Littorinimorpha is a large order of snails, gastropods, consisting primarily of sea snails ( marine species), but ...
Ponder, 1985 * Epigridae Ponder, 1985 * Amathinidae Ponder, 1987 *
Calopiidae Calopiidae is a family of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Truncatelloidea Truncatelloidea is a superfamily of snails, gastropod mollusks in the clade Caenogastropoda.Bouchet, P. (2013). ''Truncatelloidea''. Retrie ...
Ponder, 1999


Subfamilies

* Subfamily Pelycidiinae Ponder & Hall, 1983


Genera

* '' Microestea'' Ponder, 1965 * '' Rufodardanula'' Ponder, 1965 * '' Rastodens'' Ponder, 1966 * '' Rissolitorina'' Ponder, 1966 * '' Tridentifera'' Ponder, 1966 * '' Fictonoba'' Ponder, 1967 * '' Pseudodiala'' Ponder, 1967 * '' Pseudestea'' Ponder, 1967 * ''
Pseudoskenella ''Pseudoskenella'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.Rosenberg, G. (2011). ''Pseudoskenella'' Ponder, 1973. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species The Wor ...
'' Ponder, 1973 * ''
Lirobarleeia ''Lirobarleeia'' is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Barleeiidae. Species Species within the genus ''Lirobarleeia'' include: *'' Lirobarleeia albolirata'' (Carpenter, 1864) *'' Lirobarleeia b ...
'' Ponder, 1983 * ''
Kutikina ''Austropeplea'' is a genus of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.Bouchet, P. (2015). ''Austropeplea'' Cotton, 1942. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Re ...
'' Ponder & Waterhouse, 1997
* '' Kessneria'' Walker & Ponder, 2001


Taxa named after Ponder


Genera

* '' Ponderia'' Hoaurt, 1986 * '' Ponderconcha'' Clark, 2009


Species in temporal order

* '' Aspella ponderi'' Radwin & D' Attilio, 1976 * '' Heliacus cerdaleus ponderi'' Garrard, 1977 * '' Limatula (Stabilima) ponderi'' Fleming, 1978 * '' Echineulima ponderi'' Warén, 1980 * '' Pisinna ponderi'' Palazzi, 1982 * '' Notocrater ponderi'' B. A. Marshall, 1986 * '' Oliva (Miniaceoliva) caerulea ponderi'' Petuch & Sargent, 1986 * ''Sassia'' (''Sassia'') ''ponderi'' Beu, 1986 * '' Tritonoharpa ponderi'' Beu & Maxwell, 1987 * ''Favartia'' (''Favartia'') ''ponderi'' Myers & d'Attilio, 1989 * ''Amalda'' (''Alcospira'') ''ponderi'' Ninomiya, 1991 * '' Choristella ponderi'' McLean, 1992 * '' Austrotrochaclis ponderi'' B. A. Marshall, 1995 * '' Powellisetia ponderi'' Numanami, 1996 * ''
Fissidentalium ponderi ''Fissidentalium'' is a genus of molluscs belonging to the family Dentaliidae. The genus has cosmopolitan distribution. Species Species: * Species Fissidentalium actiniophorum Shimek, 1997 * Species Fissidentalium aegeum (R. B. Watson, 1879) ...
'' Lamprell & Healy, 1998 * ''
Posticobia ponderi ''Posticobia'' is a genus of freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Tateidae. This genus occurs in Australia and Norfolk Island. Species Species within the genus ''Posticobia'' include: * ''Posticobia brazieri ''Postic ...
'' Clark, 2009 * '' Amplirhagada ponderi'' Köhler, 2010


Publications

* * Clark S. A., Miller A. C. & Ponder W. F. (2003) ''Revision of the snail genus Austropyrgus (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae)''. 109 pp. * - There are 17 newly described species from the genus '' Gabbia''. * Colgan D. J., Ponder W. F., Beacham E. & Macaranas J. (2006). "Molecular phylogenetics of
Caenogastropoda Caenogastropoda is a taxonomic clade, a large diverse group which are mostly sea snails and other marine gastropod mollusks, but also includes some freshwater snails and some land snails. The clade is the most diverse and ecologically successfu ...
(Gastropoda: Mollusca)". '' Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution'' 42(3): 717–737.
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* Ponder W. & Lindberg D. R. (2008). ''Phylogeny and Evolution of the Mollusca''. University of California Press, 469 pp. .


See also

*
Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Ponder & Lindberg, 1997) The taxonomy of the Gastropoda, as revised by Winston Ponder and David R. Lindberg in 1997, is an older taxonomy of the class Gastropoda, the class of molluscs consisting of all snails and slugs. The full name of the work in which this taxonomy wa ...


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ponder, Winston 1944 births New Zealand malacologists New Zealand biologists New Zealand marine biologists New Zealand zoologists Living people University of Auckland alumni