Harald Alfred Rehder (June 5, 1907 – November 10, 1996) was an American

malacologist Malacology, from Ancient Greek μαλακός (''malakós''), meaning "soft", and λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study", is the branch of invertebrate zoology that deals with the study of the Mollusca (molluscs or mollusks), the second-largest ...

. His wife, Lois Corea Rehder (1911–1988), was also a malacologist. He (and/or his wife) named 172 marine taxa according to the

World Register of Marine Species The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) is a taxonomic database that aims to provide an authoritative and comprehensive catalogue and list of names of marine organisms. Content The content of the registry is edited and maintained by scien ...

He graduated from

Bowdoin College Bowdoin College ( ) is a Private college, private liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Brunswick, Maine. It was chartered in 1794. The main Bowdoin campus is located near Casco Bay and the Androscoggin River. In a ...

(BA),

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

(MA),

George Washington University The George Washington University (GW or GWU) is a Private university, private University charter#Federal, federally-chartered research university in Washington, D.C., United States. Originally named Columbian College, it was chartered in 1821 by ...

(PhD). He was a leading authority on the systematics and biogeography of the molluscan fauna of Polynesia. He introduced 238 new taxa on Mollusca.

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* Rehder H. A. (July) 1952. ''

Harold John Finlay Harold John Finlay (22 March 1901 – 7 April 1951) was a New Zealand palaeontologist and conchologist. Biography Finlay was born in Comilla, India (now Bangladesh), on 22 March 1901, to a family of Baptist missionaries. He was left a paraple ...

, 1901-1951''. The Nautilus 66(1)
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31. * Florence A. Ruhoff (1973), Bibliography and Zoological Taxa of

Paul Bartsch Paul Bartsch (14 August 1871 Tłumaczów, Tuntschendorf, Silesia – 24 April 1960 McLean, Virginia) was an American Malacology, malacologist and carcinologist. He was named the last of those belonging to the "Descriptive Age of Malacology". E ...

, Biographical Sketch by Harald A. Rehder, Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, Number 143 * M. J. Sweeney & M. J. Harasewych, 1999. Harald A. Rehder (1907-1996): biographical sketch and malacological contributions. The Nautilus 113(4): 127-150, portraits

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American malacologists 1907 births 1996 deaths 20th-century American zoologists Conchologists Bowdoin College alumni George Washington University alumni Harvard University alumni {{US-zoologist-stub

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