Peter Friedrich Röding (17 June 1767 – 8 June 1846) was a German malacologist who lived in

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. Very little is known about this naturalist. Many of Röding's descriptions (often simply a German rendition of the Latin binomial name) are of species which were first named by earlier authors such as Johann Hieronymus Chemnitz, Friedrich Wilhelm Martini and

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. Röding's references to pre-existing descriptions and figures make these names also valid, since they are unequivocally recognizable, and were (after Röding) subsequently adopted by many later authors.

Museum Boltenianum

He was the principal

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of a 1798 catalogue of an important

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collection. The catalogue was entitled ''Museum Boltenianum sive catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens conchylia sive testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia'' and was published in Hamburg. This was in fact a sale catalogue, and it was ignored as a taxonomic work until William Healey Dall recognized that it introduced new valid

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, though with long names and short descriptions. Thus Röding is credited with naming many taxa. ''Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus…'', the sale catalogue, is a rare book. Genera published in the anonymously authored work "''Museum Boltenianum sive catalogus cimeliorum…''" published in 1798 were for a long time ascribed to , but are now considered to have been authored by Röding according to a ruling by the ICZN in 1956.Reference summary for Röding, P. F.
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, accessed 13 September 2010.

References

External links

William Healey Dall, ''An Index to the Museum Boltenianum'', Washington, 1915

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Taxa described as new in Röding, P. F. 1798
{{DEFAULTSORT:Roding, Peter Friedrich 1767 births 1846 deaths 18th-century German zoologists Conchologists German malacologists Teuthologists