Stefan Clessin

Stefan Clessin (13 November 1833, Würzburg – 21 December 1911, Regensburg) was a German malacologist.[1]

He served as a military officer, and from 1862 worked for the Bavarian railways. He was an editor of the Malakozoologische Blätter and made major contributions to Martini and Chemitz' Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet.[2][3] He conducted research of fossil mollusks as well as living species.[4]

Bibliography
  • Die mollusken-fauna der umgegend von Augsburg (1871); Bericht des Naturhistorischen vereins in Augsburg, bd. XXI.
  • Ueber Missbildungen der Mollusken und ihrer Gehäuse, (1873); Bericht of the Naturhistorischer Verein in Augsburg, 22.
  • Deutsche excursions-mollusken-fauna, (1876), Nurnberg : Bauer & Raspe.[5]
  • Clessin S. (1880). "Studien über die Familie der Paludinen". Malakozoologische Blätter (ser. 2)2: 161-196.
  • Die Molluskenfauna Oesterreich-Ungarns und der Schweiz, (5 parts, 1887–90), Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe.[6]

Taxa described

Clessin named more than 90 species of non-marine gastropod mollusks, including:[7]

gollark: Ask steamport.
gollark: Keanu, over skynet? No idea? Not over skynet, also no idea.
gollark: No, why?
gollark: Though it wouldn't be "spoofing" the channel, you can just use any channel.
gollark: I guess?

References
  1. Coan E. V., Kabat A. R. & Petit R. E. (15 February 2011). 2,400 years of malacology, 8th ed. Archived 2012-11-11 at the Wayback Machine, 936 pp. + 42 pp. [Annex of Collations]. American Malacological Society
  2. Brann - Einslin edited by Rudolf Vierhaus
  3. Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz Biblio.com
  4. Clessin, Stephan In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2, S. 289
  5. Deutsche excursions-mollusken-fauna BHL
  6. HathiTrust Digital Library published works
  7. WoRMS: list of species named by Stefan Clessin
  • Borcherding, F.,1912 Stephan Clessin.Nekrolog Nachrichtsblatt der deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 24(2): 49-151. Biography,portrait, bibliography
  • Boeters, H. D.,1967 Die Publikationsdaten der Clessin's Molluskenfaunen. Mitteilungen der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 10: 210-212. Bibliography
  • Jungbluth, J. H.,1995 Zur Geschichte der deutschen Malakozoologie, XXI: Die Deutsche Malakozoologische Gesellschaft - vom 19. Jahrhundert in das 21. Jahrhundert. 1868-1993: 125 Jahre Deutsche Malakozoologische Gesellschaft. Mitteilungen der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft, 55: 1-18. Biography
  • Naturforscher im Landkreis Augsburg Von Heinz Fischer, Augsburg 24. Bericht der Naturf.Ges.Augsbg/ Seite 131 - 157 / 3. Nov. 1970 135-pdf in German includes portrait.


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