David R. Lindberg (1948, U.S.A.) is an American

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, ...

and professor of integrative

biology Biology is the scientific study of life. It is a natural science with a broad scope but has several unifying themes that tie it together as a single, coherent field. For instance, all organisms are made up of cells that process hereditary ...

at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant un ...

. He is also the Curator for the

University of California Museum of Paleontology The University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP) is a paleontology museum located on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. The museum is within the Valley Life Sciences Building (VLSB), designed by George W. Kelham and ...

and co-editor of the journal ''Molecular Systematics and Phylogeography of Mollusks''. Much of his work has focused on

sea snail Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the a ...

s, specifically on

limpet Limpets are a group of aquatic snails that exhibit a conical gastropod shell, shell shape (patelliform) and a strong, muscular foot. Limpets are members of the class Gastropoda, but are polyphyletic, meaning the various groups called "limpets" ...

s, on the

phylogeny A phylogenetic tree (also phylogeny or evolutionary tree Felsenstein J. (2004). ''Inferring Phylogenies'' Sinauer Associates: Sunderland, MA.) is a branching diagram or a tree showing the evolutionary relationships among various biological s ...

of the

Patellogastropoda The Patellogastropoda, common name true limpets and historically called the Docoglossa, are members of a major phylogenetic group of marine gastropods, treated by experts either as a clade or as a taxonomic order. The clade Patellogastropoda is d ...

, and various other

gastropod 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. T ...

groups. Lindberg renamed the order Docoglossa to

in 1986. He is also notable for naming the subclass Eogastropoda, and proposing that the taxonomy of the Gastropoda be rewritten in terms of strictly

monophyletic In cladistics for a group of organisms, monophyly is the condition of being a clade—that is, a group of taxa composed only of a common ancestor (or more precisely an ancestral population) and all of its lineal descendants. Monophyletic gr ...

groups.

Genera and species containing the name Lindberg

Although these species were named in honor of one or more people who had the surname Lindberg,WoRMS : Species named after Lindberg; accessed : 23 October 2010
/ref> judging from the year the species were named, only a few of the following taxa were named in honor of David R. Lindberg. * '' Bathyglycinde lindbergi'' (Uschakov, 1955) * '' Bathyraja lindbergi'' Ishiyama & Ishihara, 1977 * '' Bogidiella lindbergi'' Ruffo, 1958 * '' Cyclopteropsis lindbergi'' Soldatov, 1930 * ''

Dugesia lindbergi ''Dugesia'' (pronounced, /duˈd͡ʒiʒ(i)ə/) is a genus of dugesiid triclads that contains some common representatives of the class Turbellaria. These common flatworms are found in freshwater habitats of Africa, Eurasia, and Australia. ''Duges ...

'' de Beauchamp, 1959 * '' Eualus lindbergi'' Kobyakova, 1955 * '' Genioliparis lindbergi'' Andriashev & Neyelov, 1976 * ''Glycinde lindbergi'' Uschakov, 1955 : synonym of Bathyglycinde lindbergi (Uschakov, 1955) * ''Gobio gobio lepidolaemus natio lindbergi'' Turdakov & Piskarev, 1955 : synonym of '' Gobio gobio gobio'' (Linnaeus, 1758) * ''Gurjanovilia lindbergi'' Jakovleva, 1952 : synonym of '' Tripoplax lindbergi'' (Jakovleva, 1952) * ''

Hadropogonichthys lindbergi ''Hadropogonichthys'' is a monospecific genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Zoarcidae, the eelpouts. The only species in the genus is ''Hadropogonichthys lindbergi'' which is in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. The genus w ...

'' Fedorov, 1982 * ''

Halicyclops lindbergi ''Halicyclops'' is a genus of copepods belonging to the family Cyclopidae. There are currently 94 described species found in brackish Brackish water, sometimes termed brack water, is water occurring in a natural environment that has more salin ...

'' Rocha C.E.F., 1995 * ''

Iothia lindbergi ''Iothia'' is a genus of sea snails, the true limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Lepetidae. Species The following species within the genus ''Iothia'' are recognised by the World Register of Marine Species : *'' Iothia albes ...

'' McLean, 1985 * '' Lindbergichthys'' * ''Lindbergichthys mizops'' (Günther, 1880) : synonym of ''

Lepidonotothen mizops The toad notie (''Lindbergichthys mizops''), or toad notothen, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, belonging to the family Nototheniidae, the notothens or cod icefishes. It is native to the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean. Taxonomy The ...

'' (Günther, 1880) * ''Lindbergichthys nudifrons'' (Lönnberg, 1905) : synonym of ''

Lepidonotothen nudifrons ''Lindbergichthys nudifrons'', the yellowfin rockcod, also known as the yellow notie or the gaudy notothen, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, belonging to the family Nototheniidae, the notothens or cod icefishes. It is native to the Atlan ...

'' (Lönnberg, 1905) * ''Liparis lindbergi'' Krasyukova, 1984 : synonym of ''

Liparis latifrons ''Liparis'' may refer to: * ''Liparis'' (amphipod), an invalid synonym of the skeleton shrimp genus ''Caprella'' * ''Liparis'' (fish), a genus of snailfishes * ''Liparis'' (plant), a genus of orchids * Liparis was the ancient name of the Mezit ...

'' Schmidt, 1950 * ''

Lottia lindbergi ''Lottia lindbergi'' is a species of sea snail, a true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Lottiidae Lottiidae is a family of sea snails, specifically true limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Lottioidea and ...

'' Sasaki & Okutani, 1994 * ''Lycodes lindbergi'' Popov, 1931 : synonym of ''

Lycodes uschakovi ''Lycodes'' is a genus of zoarcid fish in the subfamily Lycodinae. It is the most species-rich genus in its taxonomic family as well as in the Arctic Ocean and adjacent waters. They occupy both shallow waters and deeper waters down to 3000 m ...

'' Popov, 1931 * '' Machilis lindbergi'' Wygodzinsky, 1959 * '' Mesochra lindbergi'' Petkovski, 1964 * '' Mycale lindbergi'' Koltun, 1958 * '' Peramphithoe lindbergi'' ( Gurjanova, 1938) * ''Potamon gedrosianum lindbergi'' Pretzmann, 1966 : synonym of '' Potamon ruttneri'' Pretzmann, 1962 * '' Sarothrogammarus lindbergi'' G. Karaman, 1969 * ''Scoiiodota lindbergi'' D'yakonov in D'yakonov et al., 1958 : synonym of ''Scoliodotella lindbergi'' (D'yakonov in D'yakonov et al., 1958) * '' Scoliodota lindbergi'' * '' Scoliodotella lindbergi'' (D'yakonov in D'yakonov et al., 1958) * '' Tripoplax lindbergi'' (Jakovleva, 1952)

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