Adolph Cornelis 'Dolf' van Bruggen (9 July 1929 – 3 June 2016)
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"A.C. (Dolf) van Bruggen (1929–2016)"
. Bram's snailblog, accessed 5 June 2016. was a Dutch
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 ...
,
entomologist
Entomology (from Ancient Greek ἔντομον (''éntomon''), meaning "insect", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study") is the branch of zoology that focuses on insects. Those who study entomology are known as entomologists. In ...
, and
botanist
Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...
. His interest in the
tropics
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and
tropical Africa
The Afrotropical realm is one of the Earth's eight biogeographic realms. It includes Sub-Saharan Africa, the southern Arabian Peninsula, the island of Madagascar, and the islands of the western Indian Ocean. It was formerly known as the Ethiopi ...
dominated his broad scientific interest for more than five decades.
He was an expert especially in the
land snail
A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have gastropod shell, shel ...
families
Streptaxidae
Streptaxidae is a family of carnivorous air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade
Stylommatophora.
Streptaxidae are monophyletic while all subfamilies and several genera are polyphyletic.
Six Streptaxi ...
,
Achatinidae
Achatinidae (New Latin, from Greek "''agate''") is a family of medium to large sized tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks from Africa.
Well known species include '' Achatina achatina'' the Giant African Snail, and '' L ...
and
Maizaniidae.
he had authored some 655 scientific publications.
Early years
Adolph Cornelis van Bruggen was born on 9 July 1929, the eldest son of A.C. van Bruggen, Sr. and A.C.G. van Bruggen-van Eyk Bijleveld. He spent his youth in
The Hague
The Hague ( ) is the capital city of the South Holland province of the Netherlands. With a population of over half a million, it is the third-largest city in the Netherlands. Situated on the west coast facing the North Sea, The Hague is the c ...
.
Natural history
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and particularly animals always caught his attention.
His father was a high-ranked civil servant at the
Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
The Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (; OCW) is the Dutch Ministry responsible for education, culture, science, research, gender equality and communications. The Ministry was created in 1918 as the Ministry of Education, Arts and Sci ...
. The
Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie
The Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie (National Museum of Natural History) was a museum on the Rapenburg in Leiden, the Netherlands. It was founded in 1820 by Royal Decree from a merger of several existing collections including Temminck's own ...
was administered by that ministry at the time, and when he graduated from the
Gymnasium Haganum
The Gymnasium Haganum is one of the oldest Public school (government funded), public schools in the Netherlands, located in the city of The Hague. First mentioned in 1327, the school is currently housed in a monumental Renaissance Revival architec ...
in The Hague in 1949, his father introduced him to Dr. Carel Octavius van Regteren Altena (1907–1976), curator of Mollusca at the museum, who stimulated his interest in
malacology
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 ...
.
At
Leiden University
Leiden University (abbreviated as ''LEI''; ) is a Public university, public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. Established in 1575 by William the Silent, William, Prince of Orange as a Protestantism, Protestant institution, it holds the d ...
van Bruggen studied
systematic botany
''Systematic Botany'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the study of systematic botany. It is published quarterly by the American Society of Plant Taxonomists. According to the ''Journal Citation Reports'', the journal has a 2010 i ...
,
animal ecology
Ecology () is the natural science of the relationships among living organisms and their environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere levels. Ecology overlaps with the closely re ...
and
systematic zoology
Systematics is the study of the diversification of living forms, both past and present, and the relationships among living things through time. Relationships are visualized as evolutionary trees (synonyms: phylogenetic trees, phylogenies). Phyl ...
. In 1956 he graduated, after three years as an assistant to Prof. Dr. Hilbrand Boschma (1893–1976), the director of the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, who taught Systematic Zoology at Leiden University.
The start of van Bruggen's malacological career can be dated back to 1948, when he became a member of the
Dutch Malacological Society (NMV). His first malacological publication, in Dutch, appeared in 1948 in the Dutch journal ''De Levende Natuur''; a short note reporting a find of the marine bivalve ''
Anomia ephippium
''Anomia ephippium'' is a species of bivalve belonging to the family Anomiidae.
Distribution
A. ephippium is found primarily in sheltered conditions in the low intertidal and sublittoral zones. They are a benthic species that lives in depth ...
'', an uncommon species in the Netherlands. His very first publication had appeared earlier in the same year in the same journal; it reported a sighting of
seals
Seals may refer to:
* Pinniped, a diverse group of semi-aquatic marine mammals, many of which are commonly called seals, particularly:
** Earless seal, or "true seal"
** Fur seal
* Seal (emblem), a device to impress an emblem, used as a means of a ...
and a
horse mackerel on a Dutch beach.
It was also in Leiden that van Bruggen met his wife, Wenda van Bruggen-Gorter. She became painfully aware of his malacological interests when one day on their honeymoon in Switzerland, they were returning home late in the evening and van Bruggen found a beautiful specimen of the slug ''
Limax cinereoniger
''Limax cinereoniger'', the ash-black slug is a large species of air-breathing land slug in the terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc family Limacidae, the keelback slugs. This is the largest land slug species in the world.[< ...]
'' that he wanted for his collection. However, not having any glass vials with him (plastic bags were unknown in those days) he asked to use Wenda's evening bag to bring the animal home.
Originally intending to depart to the
Dutch East Indies
The Dutch East Indies, also known as the Netherlands East Indies (; ), was a Dutch Empire, Dutch colony with territory mostly comprising the modern state of Indonesia, which Proclamation of Indonesian Independence, declared independence on 17 Au ...
after his studies, this became impossible when the
former Dutch colony achieved independence, as
Indonesia
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, on 27 December 1949. Since van Bruggen had a firm interest in the tropics, the couple decided to move to Africa instead.
In Africa (1957–1966)
They sailed to
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic O ...
, stopping on their way at the remote Atlantic island of
St Helena
Saint Helena (, ) is one of the three constituent parts of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, a remote British overseas territory.
Saint Helena is a volcanic and tropical island, located in the South Atlantic Ocean, some 1,874 km ...
, in May 1957. In South Africa, van Bruggen had accepted a job at the
Ministry of Agriculture in Pretoria. There he was charged with the study of
insects
Insects (from Latin ') are hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta. They are the largest group within the arthropod phylum. Insects have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body (head, thorax and abdomen), three pairs of jointed ...
and the problems they caused in warehouses. After three years he accepted the position of
Marine Biologist
Marine biology is the scientific study of the biology of marine life, organisms that inhabit the sea. Given that in biology many phyla, families and genera have some species that live in the sea and others that live on land, marine biology clas ...
and Curator at the newly erected
Oceanarium
An oceanarium can be either a marine mammal park, such as Marineland of Canada, or a large-scale Public aquarium, aquarium, such as the Lisbon Oceanarium, presenting an ocean habitat with marine (ocean), marine animals, especially large ocean dwe ...
in
Port Elizabeth
Gqeberha ( , ), formerly named Port Elizabeth, and colloquially referred to as P.E., is a major seaport and the most populous city in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It is the seat of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipal ...
. Shortly afterwards, he accepted a position as curator at the Natal Museum in
Pietermaritzburg
Pietermaritzburg (; ) is the capital and second-largest city in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa after Durban. It was named in 1838 and is currently governed by the Msunduzi Local Municipality. The town was named in Zulu after King ...
. Both van Bruggens worked at the museum from 1962 to 1966; she as a
librarian
A librarian is a person who professionally works managing information. Librarians' common activities include providing access to information, conducting research, creating and managing information systems, creating, leading, and evaluating educat ...
and his personal assistant in the field. They frequently went out for fieldwork, making collection trips as far north as
Malawi
Malawi, officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa. It is bordered by Zambia to the west, Tanzania to the north and northeast, and Mozambique to the east, south, and southwest. Malawi spans over and ...
and
Zambia
Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central Africa, Central, Southern Africa, Southern and East Africa. It is typically referred to being in South-Central Africa or Southern Africa. It is bor ...
.
During his African years, in addition to his work on insects and
snail
A snail is a shelled gastropod. The name is most often applied to land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. However, the common name ''snail'' is also used for most of the members of the molluscan class Gas ...
s, van Bruggen expanded into work on mammals and birds. Contacts with field staff of
South African National Parks
South African National Parks (SANParks) is the body responsible for managing South Africa's national parks. SANParks was formed in 1926, and currently manages 19 parks consisting of , over 3% of the total area of South Africa.
Many parks offer ...
brought a new focus on
nature conservation
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, and stimulated an interest in
zoo
A zoo (short for zoological garden; also called an animal park or menagerie) is a facility where animals are kept within enclosures for public exhibition and often bred for conservation purposes.
The term ''zoological garden'' refers to zoology, ...
s. In 1963, at the 125th anniversary of
Artis Zoo in Amsterdam, van Bruggen sent a number of
rock hyrax
The rock hyrax (; ''Procavia capensis''), also called dassie, Cape hyrax, rock rabbit, and (from some interpretations of a word used in the King James Bible) coney, is a medium-sized terrestrial mammal native to Africa and the Middle East. Common ...
es (''
Procavia capensis
The rock hyrax (; ''Procavia capensis''), also called dassie, Cape hyrax, rock rabbit, and (from some interpretations of a word used in the King James Bible) coney, is a medium-sized terrestrial mammal native to Africa and the Middle East. Common ...
''), as a gift from Dutch biologists working in South Africa.
At the beginning of 1966, van Bruggen accepted an invitation to return to the Netherlands to teach in the department of Systematic Zoology at Leiden University, invited van Bruggen to teach at that institution.
In the Netherlands
At
Leiden University
Leiden University (abbreviated as ''LEI''; ) is a Public university, public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. Established in 1575 by William the Silent, William, Prince of Orange as a Protestantism, Protestant institution, it holds the d ...
, van Bruggen taught undergraduates in Systematic Zoology. In 1969 he received his
Ph.D. with the thesis ''Studies on the land molluscs of Zululand with notes on the distribution of land molluscs in Southern Africa''.
Although officially employed by the University, his actual place of work was a few minutes away at the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, where his supervisor was Prof. Dr
Leo Brongersma
Leo Daniel Brongersma (17 May 1907 in Bloemendaal, North Holland – 24 July 1994 in Leiden) was a Dutch zoologist, herpetologist, author, and lecturer.
Brongersma was born in Bloemendaal, North Holland, and earned his PhD at the University of Am ...
, director of the museum.
Besides his work he devoted much time to various organizations. With the Dutch Malacological Society (Nederlandse Malacologische Vereniging, NMV), he served as Secretary (1953–1956), interim President (1970–1972) and Treasurer (1983–1986) on the Board. He was editor of the ''Correspondentieblad'' (1951–1953) and, after a short interruption, again from 1954 to 1956. Since 1968, he has been editor, then editor-in-chief, of ''
Basteria
''Basteria'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Netherlands Malacological Society, covering research on molluscs. It was established in 1936 and is now published mostly in English. The editor-in-chief is Ruud Bank. A ...
'', the scientific journal of NMV. He was elected Honorary Member of the Society in 1999.
He served as President of the 7th International Malacological Congress in Amsterdam in 1977, organized on behalf of Unitas Malacologica, the international organisation of malacologists. From 1989 to 1999, he was chairman of the Netherlands Commission for International Nature Conservation, also serving as editor of its communications. He also work with the Netherlands Zoological Society, the (former) Netherlands Foundation for Biological Research and the Dutch/Belgian Mammal Society.
He retired in 1994, with a lecture entitled ''Semper aliquid novi ex Africam adferre'', which may be translated as "''there is always something new from Africa''", and which may be regarded as van Bruggen's personal motto. Afterwards he continued his studies as an associate of the Leiden museum, spending most of his days in the building at the Raamsteeg and later at the Darwinweg in Leiden, where he continues to study and publish on Mollusca and other topics.
Starting in the 1990s, the van Bruggen made several private trips to southern Africa. During their 2008 trip, van Bruggen accepted Dai Herbert's request to cooperate in revising some material collected in the
Drakensberg Mountains
The Drakensberg ( Zulu: uKhahlamba, Sotho: Maloti, Afrikaans: Drakensberge) is the eastern portion of the Great Escarpment, which encloses the central Southern African plateau. The Great Escarpment reaches its greatest elevation – within the ...
, which allowed him to continue with his great love
land snails of South Africa.
He died 3 June 2016.
Bibliography
Dolf van Bruggen's wide interest in systematic biology and related fields are reflected in his numerous publications, which cover topics as diverse as marine and non-marine Mollusca, mammals, amphibians, reptiles, birds, insects, as well as zoo biology,
museum collection
A museum is distinguished by a collection of often unique objects that forms the core of its activities for wikt:exhibition, exhibitions, education, research, etc. This differentiates it from an archive or library, where the contents may be more p ...
s,
nature conservation
Nature conservation is the ethic/moral philosophy and conservation movement focused on protecting species from extinction, maintaining and restoring habitats, enhancing ecosystem services, and protecting biological diversity. A range of values ...
,
bibliographic
Bibliography (from and ), as a discipline, is traditionally the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology (from ). English author and bibliographer John Carter describes ''bibliograph ...
al matters, and historical accounts, apart from numerous book reviews and obituaries, to name only the fields on which he wrote more than a single contribution. The complete listing of his publication include 655 records up till 2008.
The flow of publications over the years since 1948 continues to the present and has never been interrupted. Fluctuations in his production have been relatively small. On average, 11 papers appeared annually. There has never been a year with less than four papers and that happened only once. His most productive years (in number of papers) are 1960–1966, when he resided in South Africa; 1961 has been his most productive year with 23 papers.
His most important scientific contributions concern the fields of
malacology
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 ...
,
entomology
Entomology (from Ancient Greek ἔντομον (''éntomon''), meaning "insect", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study") is the branch of zoology that focuses on insects. Those who study entomology are known as entomologists. In ...
and
botany
Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...
. His botanical publications are restricted to the year 1958, when he published two systematic papers on
Sapotaceae
240px, '' Madhuca longifolia'' var. ''latifolia'' in Narsapur, Medak district, India
The Sapotaceae are a family of flowering plants belonging to the order (biology)">order Ericales">family (biology)">family of flowering plants belonging to th ...
from
Borneo
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with the description of a new genus and two new species.
His entomological production lasted longer, from 1954 to 1963. In this period, he published 18 papers, mainly on
Ephemeroptera from
Southeast Asia
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and
New Guinea
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, and on
Diptera
Flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- ''di-'' "two", and πτερόν ''pteron'' "wing". Insects of this order use only a single pair of wings to fly, the hindwings having evolved into advance ...
from southern Africa, thereby introducing 14 new species and two new genera.
The vast majority of his scientific papers dealt with the systematics and
biogeography
Biogeography is the study of the species distribution, distribution of species and ecosystems in geography, geographic space and through evolutionary history of life, geological time. Organisms and biological community (ecology), communities o ...
of the
Mollusca
Mollusca is a phylum of protostome, protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum ...
. In the early period of his career he published on both marine and non-marine taxa, but the former more or less stopped after 1963, possibly related to his move from a marine institute at
Port Elizabeth
Gqeberha ( , ), formerly named Port Elizabeth, and colloquially referred to as P.E., is a major seaport and the most populous city in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It is the seat of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipal ...
to the Natal Museum at
Pietermaritzburg
Pietermaritzburg (; ) is the capital and second-largest city in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa after Durban. It was named in 1838 and is currently governed by the Msunduzi Local Municipality. The town was named in Zulu after King ...
.
Most of van Bruggen's scientific work has been devoted to
land snail
A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have gastropod shell, shel ...
s, especially those from
subsaharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa is the area and regions of the continent of Africa that lie south of the Sahara. These include Central Africa, East Africa, Southern Africa, and West Africa. Geopolitically, in addition to the African countries and territ ...
and the islands surrounding this continent. Although there are few families on which he has not published, there are three families that may be considered his particular area of expertise and fascination: the pulmonate families
Streptaxidae
Streptaxidae is a family of carnivorous air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade
Stylommatophora.
Streptaxidae are monophyletic while all subfamilies and several genera are polyphyletic.
Six Streptaxi ...
and
Achatinidae
Achatinidae (New Latin, from Greek "''agate''") is a family of medium to large sized tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks from Africa.
Well known species include '' Achatina achatina'' the Giant African Snail, and '' L ...
and the operculate (caenogastropod) family
Maizaniidae.
The interest in the carnivorous family Streptaxidae was undoubtedly raised by van Bruggen's prolonged stay in South Africa, quite possibly inspired by
Matthew William Kemble Connolly
Matthew William Kemble Connolly (13 February 1872 – 24 February 1947) was a British army officer and malacologist.
Biography
Connolly was born at Bath, the son of Vice-Admiral Matthew Connolly, R.N., and his wife Harriet Kemble. He was educated ...
’s (1939) impressive monograph on the
South African non-marine Mollusca, in which a picture of an extremely diverse and aesthetically appealing streptaxid radiation was painted. In all, he described three new genera and 60 new species and subspecies of Streptaxidae, all but four from Africa.
Achatinidae are a family of rather large land snails, and, in spite of their size, one that poses tremendous taxonomic problems, and van Bruggen is one of the few people who knows his way in the chaotic
taxonomy
image:Hierarchical clustering diagram.png, 280px, Generalized scheme of taxonomy
Taxonomy is a practice and science concerned with classification or categorization. Typically, there are two parts to it: the development of an underlying scheme o ...
of this group. He devoted various papers partly or wholly to the family and introduced six new species and subspecies. He was a friend of the recently deceased American Achatinidae specialist
Albert Raymond Mead (1915–2009). They regularly exchanged opinions, but did not publish jointly.
A third group that apparently has his special interest are the terrestrial operculates, formerly known as ‘
Prosobranchia
Prosobranchia was a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic Class (biology), subclass of sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. This taxon of gastropods dates back to the 1920s. It has however been proven to be polyphyly, polyphyletic (consis ...
’, a heterogeneous assemblage of gastropods with an
operculum and separate males and females (in contrast to the
hermaphrodite
A hermaphrodite () is a sexually reproducing organism that produces both male and female gametes. Animal species in which individuals are either male or female are gonochoric, which is the opposite of hermaphroditic.
The individuals of many ...
pulmonate land snails). Operculate gastropods appear to be particularly poorly represented in subsaharan Africa in comparison to other continents, especially tropical Asia. Since the early 1980s van Bruggen has taken it on him to revise the African representatives of this group, especially the families
Maizaniidae and
Cyclophoridae
Cyclophoridae is a taxonomic family of small to large tropical land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the order Architaenioglossa belonging to the subclass Caenogastropoda (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropod ...
. This study resulted in the description of three new subgenera and ten new species (thereby doubling the number of African taxa known), and a series of papers with careful descriptions, keys and biogeographic analyses of the ‘prosobranch’ fauna in Africa and beyond.
Taxa described
New taxa described by van Bruggen include (with
type locality listed):
Gastropods
Streptaxidae
* ''
Gulella adami
''Gulella'' is a genus of very small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Gulella L. Pfeiffer, 1856. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Spe ...
'' van Bruggen, 1994 - Ivory Coast
ôte d'Ivoire
* ''
Gulella albinus
''Gulella'' is a genus of very small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Gulella L. Pfeiffer, 1856. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Spe ...
'' van Bruggen & Van Goethem, 1999 - D.R. Congo.
* ''
Gulella gwendolinae aldabrae'' van Bruggen, 1975 - Aldabra Is.
eychelles
* ''
Ptychotrema altiplani'' van Bruggen, 1989 - Malawi.
* ''
Gulella appletoni'' van Bruggen, 1975 - South Africa.
* ''
Gulella aranearum'' van Bruggen, 1986 - Malawi.
* ''
Gulella augur'' van Bruggen, 1988 - Tanzania.
* ''
Austromarconia'' van Bruggen & de Winter, 2003 - type species ''Ennea hamiltoni'' Smith, 1897.
* ''
Gulella barnardi'' van Bruggen, 1965 - South Africa.
* ''
Gulella bernardi'' van Bruggen & van Goethem, 1997 - nom. nov. for ''
Gulella sexdentata'' Taylor, 1880, non ''Gulella sexdentata'' (von Martens, 1869).
* ''
Gulella darglensis benthodon'' van Bruggen, 1980 - South Africa.
* ''
Gulella browni'' van Bruggen, 1969 - South Africa.
* ''
Careoradula'' Gerlach & van Bruggen, 1999 - type species ''Streptaxis'' (''Imperurbatia'') ''perelegans'' Martens, 1898.
* ''
Ptychotrema cazombense'' van Bruggen, 1989 - Angola.
* ''
Gulella ceciliae'' van Bruggen, 1971 - Rhodesia
imbabwe
* ''
Ptychotrema collegarum'' van Bruggen, 1989 - Malawi.
* ''
Gulella collicola'' van Bruggen, 1966 - Swaziland.
* ''
Diaphera connectens
Diaphera is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Diapheridae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Diaphera Albers, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www. ...
'' van Bruggen, 1974 - Philippines.
* ''
Gulella peakei continentalis'' van Bruggen, 1975 - South Africa.
* ''
Ptychotrema cossyphae
''Ptychotrema'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Enneinae of the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Ptychotrema L. Pfeiffer, 1853. Accessed through: Worl ...
'' van Bruggen, 1989 - Uganda.
* ''
Gulella cupula'' van Bruggen & van Goethem, 1999 - D.R. Congo.
* ''
Gulella gouldi discriminanda'' van Bruggen, 1969 - South Africa.
* ''
Gulella ectodentata'' van Bruggen & van Goethem, 1999 - D.R. Congo.
* ''
Gulella garambae'' van Bruggen & van Goethem, 1999 - D.R. Congo.
* ''
Ptychotrema glabellum'' van Bruggen, 1989 - Angola.
* ''
Gulella guilielmi'' van Bruggen & van Goethem, 1998 - D.R. Congo.
* ''
Gulella herberti'' van Bruggen, 2004 - Swaziland.
* ''
Gulella hildae'' van Bruggen, 2001 - Malawi.
* ''
Streptostele inconspicua'' van Bruggen, 1964 - Mozambique.
* ''
Gulella incurvidens'' van Bruggen, 1972 - South Africa.
* ''
Gulella inobstructa'' van Bruggen, 1965 - South Africa.
* ''
Gulella insulincola'' van Bruggen, 1975 - Aldabra Is.
eychelles
* ''
Ptychotrema interstriatum'' van Bruggen 1989 - Angola.
* ''
Gulella johannae'' van Bruggen, 2006 - South Africa.
* ''
Gulella crassidens jonesi'' van Bruggen, 1969 - South Africa.
* ''
Haploptychius juttingae
''Haploptychius'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Haploptychius Kobelt, 1905. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species ...
'' van Bruggen, 1972 - Indonesia.
* ''
Ptychotrema kalemiense'' Adam, van Bruggen & van Goethem, 1994 - Zaire
.R. Congo
* ''
Gulella lawrencei'' van Bruggen, 1964 - Mozambique.
* ''
Gulella lievrouwi'' van Bruggen & van Goethem, 1999 - D.R. Congo.
* ''
Gulella loveridgei'' van Bruggen, 1996 - Malawi, (publication dated 18 December 1995, published February 1996).
* ''
Ptychotrema loveridgei'' van Bruggen, 1990 - Malawi.
* ''
Gulella vicina luci'' van Bruggen, 1980 - Rhodesia
imbabwe
* ''
Gulella meredithae'' van Bruggen, 2000 - Malawi.
* ''
Streptostele meridionalis'' van Bruggen, 1966 - South Africa. = ''
Streptostele herma'' Connolly, 1912, vide van Bruggen, 1967
* ''
Gulella microrutshuruensis'' van Bruggen, 1995 - Malawi.
* ''
Ptychotrema multispiralis'' van Bruggen, 1989 - Malawi.
* ''
Diaphera obliquapex'' van Bruggen, 1974 - Philippines.
* ''
Gulella obstructa'' van Bruggen, 1965 - South Africa.
* ''
Diaphera palawanica'' van Bruggen, 1974 - Philippines.
* ''
Stereostele nevilli
''Stereostele nevilli'' is a species of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.
''Stereostele nevilli'' is the only species in the genus ''Stereostele''.
Subspecies
Subspecies of ''Ster ...
parvidentata'' Gerlach & van Bruggen, 1999 - Seychelles.
* ''
Gulella peakei'' van Bruggen, 1975 - Aldabra Is.
eychelles
* ''
Ptychotrema pervagatum'' van Bruggen, 1989 - Malawi.
* ''
Edentulina dussumieri
''Edentulina'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Edentulina L. Pfeiffer, 1856. Accessed at: http://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p ...
praslina'' Gerlach & van Bruggen, 1999 - Seychelles.
* ''
Ptychotrema pseudosilvaticum'' Adam, van Bruggen & van Goethem, 1994 - Zaire
.R. Congo
* ''
Edentulina dussumieri
''Edentulina'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Edentulina L. Pfeiffer, 1856. Accessed at: http://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p ...
reservae'' Gerlach & van Bruggen, 1999
[''Zoologische Verhandelingen'' Leiden 328: 17.] - Seychelles.
* ''
Gulella ruwenzoriensis'' van Bruggen & van Goethem, 1999 - D.R. Congo.
* ''
Streptostele sanctuarii'' van Bruggen, 1966 - South Africa.
* ''
Gulella selene
''Gulella'' is a genus of very small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Gulella L. Pfeiffer, 1856. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Spe ...
'' van Bruggen & van Goethem, 1999 - D.R. Congo.
* ''
Edentulina dussumieri
''Edentulina'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Edentulina L. Pfeiffer, 1856. Accessed at: http://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p ...
silhouettae'' Gerlach & van Bruggen, 1999
- Seychelles.
* ''
Silhouettia
''Silhouettia silhouettae'' is a species of air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Streptaxidae.
''Silhouettia silhouettae'' is the only species within the genus ''Silhouettia''.
Distribution
''Silho ...
'' Gerlach & van Bruggen, 1999 - type species ''Streptaxis'' (''Imperturbatia'') ''constans'' var. ''silhouettae'' Von Martens, 1898.

* ''
Gulella streptostelopsis'' van Bruggen, 2007 - Malawi.
* ''
Gulella sursum'' van Bruggen, 2001 - Malawi.
* ''
Gulella systemanaturae'' van Bruggen, 2008 Malawi.
* ''
Ptychotrema tanganyikae'' Adam, van Bruggen & van Goethem, 1995 - Zaire
.R. Congo
* ''
Gulella elliptica tesserula'' van Bruggen, 1980 - South Africa.
* ''
Gulella turriformis'' van Bruggen & van Goethem, 1999 - D.R. Congo.
* ''
Gulella udzungwensis'' van Bruggen, 2003 - Tanzania.
* ''
Ptrychotrema upembae'' Adam, van Bruggen & van Goethem, 1993 - D.R. Congo.
* ''
Gulella verdcourti'' van Bruggen, 1966 - South Africa.
* ''
Gulella virungae'' van Bruggen & van Goethem, 1999 - D.R. Congo.
* ''
Gulella wendalinae'' van Bruggen, 1975 - South Africa.
Achatinidae
* ''
Archachatina aenigmatica'' van Bruggen, 1977 - Rhodesia
imbabwe
* ''
Achatina coroca
''Achatina'' is a genus of medium-sized to very large, air-breathing, tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Achatinidae.Bouchet, P. (2014). Achatina Lamarck, 1799. Accessed through: World Register of Marine ...
'' van Bruggen, 1978 - Angola.
* ''
Archachatina ustulata limitanea'' van Bruggen, 1984 - South Africa.
* ''
Archachatina montistempli'' van Bruggen, 1965 - South Africa.
* ''
Archachatina omissa'' van Bruggen, 1965 South Africa.
* ''
Archachatina sanctaeluciae'' van Bruggen, 1989 - South Africa.
Maizaniidae
* ''
Neomaizania coryli'' van Bruggen, 1985 - Malawi.
* ''
Maizaniella erroris'' van Bruggen, 1982 - Liberia.
* ''
Maizaniella hiemalis'' van Bruggen, 1990 - Guinée
uinea
* ''
Maizaniella iterum'' van Bruggen, 1991 - Gabon.
* ''
Maizaniella machadoi'' van Bruggen, 1982 - Angola.
* ''
Macromaizaniella'' van Bruggen, 1982 - type species ''Cyclophorus preussi'' Von Martens, 1892.
* ''
Neomaizania'' van Bruggen, 1985 - type species ''
Neomaizania coryli'' van Bruggen, 1985.
* ''
Maizaniella poensis'' van Bruggen, 1982
[''Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen'' (C) 85: 199.] - Fernando Poo
ioko, Equatorial Guinea
* ''
Pteromaizaniella'' van Bruggen, 1982 - type species ''Maizaniella'' (''Pteromaizaniella'') ''poensis'' van Bruggen, 1982.
* ''
Maizania scalarioidea'' van Bruggen, 1983 - Malawi.
* ''
Spirulozania'' van Bruggen, 1982 - type species ''Cyclophorus lilliputianus'' Morelet, 1873.
Other land gastropods
* ''
Truncatellina adami'' van Bruggen, 1994 - Fernando Poo
ioko, Equatorial Guinea (Stylommatophora,
Vertiginidae
Vertiginidae, common name the whorl snails, is a family of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs or micromollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea.
Distribution
The distribution of the Vertiginidae is in the ...
).
* ''
Punctum adami'' van Bruggen & Van Goethem, 2001, D.R. Congo, (Stylommatophora,
Punctidae
Punctidae, common name the "dot snails" or "pinhead snails", is a family (biology), family of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the informal group Sigmurethra (acco ...
).
* ''
Afroconulus
''Afroconulus'' is a genus of gastropods belonging to the family Euconulidae
Euconulidae is a taxonomic family of minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the superfamily Trochomorphoid ...
'' Van Mol & van Bruggen, 1971 - type species ''Sitala diaphana'' Connolly, 1922, (Stylommatophora,
Euconulidae
Euconulidae is a taxonomic family of minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the superfamily Trochomorphoidea.
This land snail family is closely allied to the Zonitidae, the glass snails ...
).
* ''
Afroguppya
''Afroguppya'' is a genus of gastropods belonging to the family Euconulidae
Euconulidae is a taxonomic family of minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the superfamily Trochomorphoide ...
'' de Winter & van Bruggen, 1992 - type species ''Thapsia rumrutiensis'' Preston, 1911, (Stylommatophora, Euconulidae).
* ''
Curvella amicitiae'' van Bruggen, 1968 - South Africa, (Stylommatophora,
Subulinidae).
* ''
Carinazingis'' van Bruggen & de Winter, 1990 - type species ''Carinazingis regalis'' van Bruggen & de Winter, 1990, (Stylommatophora,
Urocyclidae
Urocyclidae is a family (biology), family of air-breathing land snails, semi-slugs and land slugs, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicarionoidea.
Some species within this family make and use l ...
).
* ''
Chondrocyclus chirindae'' van Bruggen, 1986 - Zimbabwe, (Caenogastropoda,
Cyclophoridae
Cyclophoridae is a taxonomic family of small to large tropical land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the order Architaenioglossa belonging to the subclass Caenogastropoda (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropod ...
).
* ''
Zingis chirindensis'' van Bruggen & Verdcourt, 1968 - Rhodesia
imbabwe (Stylommatophora,
Urocyclidae
Urocyclidae is a family (biology), family of air-breathing land snails, semi-slugs and land slugs, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicarionoidea.
Some species within this family make and use l ...
).
* ''
Rachis cunctatoris'' van Bruggen, 1975 - Malawi, (Stylommatophora,
Cerastidae
Cerastidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the order Stylommatophora.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Cerastidae Wenz, 1923. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http ...
).
* ''
Dendrotrichia'' van Bruggen & Verdcourt, 1965,
[''Zoologische Mededelingen'' Leiden 40: 219.] type species ''Trachycystis'' (''Dendrotrichia'') ''sylvicola'' van Bruggen & Verdcourt, 1965 (Stylommatophora,
Charopidae
Charopidae is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of small air-breathing land snails (and semi-slugs such as ''Otoconcha dimidiata''), terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Punctoi ...
).
* ''
Sculptaria fumarium'' van Bruggen & Rolán, 2003 - Namibia, (Stylommatophora,
Sculptariidae
''Sculptaria'' is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, and terrestrial animal, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Plectopyloidea.
''Sculptaria'' is the only genus in the family Sculptariidae. This family has no s ...
).
* ''
Fauxulus grayi'' van Bruggen & Meredith, 1983 - Malawi, (Stylommatophora,
Orculidae
Orculidae is a family (biology), family of mostly minute, air-breathing, land snails; Terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Orculidae Pilsbry, 1918. A ...
).
* ''
Pseudoglessula haackei'' van Bruggen, 1966 - South Africa, (Stylommatophora,
Subulinidae).
* ''
Pseudoglessula hamiltoni'' van Bruggen, 1966 - South Africa, (Stylommatophora,
Subulinidae).
* ''
Trachycystis langi'' van Bruggen, 1994 - South Africa, (Stylommatophora,
Charopidae
Charopidae is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of small air-breathing land snails (and semi-slugs such as ''Otoconcha dimidiata''), terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Punctoi ...
).
* ''
Pseudoglessula libera'' Solem & van Bruggen, 1976 - Guinea
uinée (Stylommatophora,
Subulinidae).
* ''
Chondrocyclus meredithae'' van Bruggen, 1983 - Malawi, (Caenogastropoda,
Cyclophoridae
Cyclophoridae is a taxonomic family of small to large tropical land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the order Architaenioglossa belonging to the subclass Caenogastropoda (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropod ...
).
* ''
Trachycystis montissalinarum'' van Bruggen, 2002 - South Africa, (Stylommatophora,
Charopidae
Charopidae is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of small air-breathing land snails (and semi-slugs such as ''Otoconcha dimidiata''), terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Punctoi ...
).
* ''
Phortion occidentalis'' van Bruggen, 1982 - South Africa, (Stylommatophora,
Charopidae
Charopidae is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of small air-breathing land snails (and semi-slugs such as ''Otoconcha dimidiata''), terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Punctoi ...
).
* ''
Asperitas trochus parvinsularis'' van Bruggen, 1976 - Indonesia, (Stylommatophora,
Ariophantidae
Ariophantidae is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of air-breathing land snails and semi-slugs, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicarionoidea (according to the Taxonomy of ...
).
* ''
Cerastua procrastinationis'' van Bruggen, 1993 - Malawi, (Stylommatophora,
Cerastidae
Cerastidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the order Stylommatophora.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Cerastidae Wenz, 1923. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http ...
).
*
Prestonellidae van Bruggen, 1978 is not available name. Type genus is ''
Prestonella
''Prestonella'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, Terrestrial animal, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Bothriembryontidae.Breure A. S. H. & Romero P. (2012). "Support and surprises: molecular phylogeny of the land s ...
'' Connolly, 1929. Prestonellidae has been considered as a synonym for
Aillyidae
Aillyidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the informal group Sigmurethra.
Aillyidae is the only family in the superfamily Aillyoidea.
This family and the genus is named in honor of Swedish m ...
according to
the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005).
*
Prestonellinae van Bruggen, Herbert & Breure, 2016
[Bruggen A. C. van, Herbert D. G. & Breure A. S. H. (2016). "Prestonellinae – validation of the name as a new subfamily of Bothriembryontidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea)". '']Zootaxa
''Zootaxa'' is a peer-reviewed scientific mega journal for animal taxonomists. It is published by Magnolia Press (Auckland, New Zealand). The journal was established by Zhi-Qiang Zhang in 2001 and new issues are published multiple times a week ...
'' 4084: 590–592.
* ''
Carinazingis regalis'' van Bruggen & de Winter, 1990 - Malawi, (Stylommatophora,
Urocyclidae
Urocyclidae is a family (biology), family of air-breathing land snails, semi-slugs and land slugs, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicarionoidea.
Some species within this family make and use l ...
).
* ''
Afroguppya solemi'' de Winter & van Bruggen, 1992 - Togo, (Stylommatophora,
Euconulidae
Euconulidae is a taxonomic family of minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the superfamily Trochomorphoidea.
This land snail family is closely allied to the Zonitidae, the glass snails ...
).
* ''
Trachycystis sylvicola'' van Bruggen & Verdcourt, 1965
- S. Rhodesia
imbabwe (Stylommatophora,
Charopidae
Charopidae is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of small air-breathing land snails (and semi-slugs such as ''Otoconcha dimidiata''), terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Punctoi ...
).
* ''
Curvella transvaalensis'' van Bruggen, 1978 - South Africa, (Stylommatophora,
Subulinidae).
* ''
Cyathopoma tres'' van Bruggen, 2008 - Malawi, (Caenogastropoda,
Cyclophoridae
Cyclophoridae is a taxonomic family of small to large tropical land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the order Architaenioglossa belonging to the subclass Caenogastropoda (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropod ...
).
Marine gastropods
* ''
Pyrene sorongensis'' van Bruggen, 1956 - West New Guinea
ndonesia, Papua(Caenogastropoda,
Columbellidae
The Columbellidae, the dove snails or dove shells, are a family of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the order Neogastropoda.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2010). Columbellidae. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marin ...
).
Bivalves
* ''
Pecten sulcicostatus
''Pecten sulcicostatus'', the South African scallop, is a species of large scallops or saltwater clams. They are marine bivalve molluscs in the family Pectinidae
Scallop () is a common name that encompasses various species of Marine (ocea ...
'' var. ''casa'' van Bruggen, 1961 - South Africa, (Bivalvia,
Pectinidae
Scallop () is a common name that encompasses various species of Marine (ocean), marine bivalve mollusc, molluscs in the Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic Family (biology), family Pectinidae, the scallops. However, the common name "scallop" is also ...
).
Insects
* ''
Afromelittodes'' Oldroyd & van Bruggen, 1963, type species ''
Afromelittodes solis'' Oldroyd & van Bruggen, 1963 (Diptera,
Asilidae
The Asilidae are the robber fly family, also called assassin flies. They are powerfully built, bristly flies with a short, stout proboscis enclosing the sharp, sucking Insect mouthparts#Hypopharynx, hypopharynx. The name "robber flies" reflects t ...
).
* ''
Pyrgotina antidorcas'' van Bruggen, 1961 - South Africa - Northern Cape. (Diptera,
Pyrgotidae
The Pyrgotidae are an unusual family of flies (Diptera), one of only two families of Cyclorrhapha that lack ocelli. Most species are "picture-winged" (i.e., have patterns of bands or spots on the wings), as is typical among the Tephritoidea, but ...
).
* ''
Atriangulum'' van Bruggen, 1960 - type species: ''
Atriangulum brevicostatum'' van Bruggen, 1960 (Diptera,
Cryptochaetidae).
* ''
Cryptochaetum brevicostatum'' van Bruggen, 1960 - South Africa - Gauteng, (Diptera,
Cryptochaetidae).
* ''
Cryptochaetum capense'' van Bruggen, 1960 - South Africa - Eastern Cape Province, (Diptera, Cryptochaetidae).
* ''
Caenis demoulini'' van Bruggen, 1954 - Thailand, (Ephemeroptera,
Caenidae
Caenidae, is a family of mayflies, sometimes called "small squaregill mayflies". Species are found throughout the world in lotic, depositional environments, and they are sprawlers. Caenids occur in quiet and even stagnant water and are often over ...
).
* ''
Cryptochaetum mixtum'' van Bruggen, 1960 - South Africa - Free State, (Diptera, Cryptochaetidae).
* ''
Tephritopyrgota munroi'' van Bruggen, 1961 - South Africa - Gauteng, (Diptera, Pyrgotidae).
* ''
Cloeon navasi'' van Bruggen, 1957 -
Zhejiang
)
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, image_caption = View of the Yandang Mountains
, image_map = Zhejiang i ...
, China, (Ephemeroptera,
Baetidae
Baetidae is a family of mayfly, mayflies with about 1000 described species in 110 genera distributed worldwide. These are among the smallest of mayflies, adults rarely exceeding 10 mm in length excluding the two long slender tails and someti ...
).
* ''
Tasmanocaenis novaeguineae'' van Bruggen, 1957 - Indonesia, Irian Jaya (West New Guinea), (Ephemeroptera,
Caenidae
Caenidae, is a family of mayflies, sometimes called "small squaregill mayflies". Species are found throughout the world in lotic, depositional environments, and they are sprawlers. Caenids occur in quiet and even stagnant water and are often over ...
).
* ''
Prohypotyphla pallidipennis'' van Bruggen, 1961 - South Africa - Limpopo Province, (Diptera, Pyrgotidae).
* ''
Cloeon papuanum'' van Bruggen, 1957 - Indonesia, Irian Jaya (West New Guinea), (Ephemeroptera, Baetidae).
* ''
Chrysopilus rhodesiensis'' van Bruggen, 1960 - Zimbabwe, (Diptera,
Rhagionidae
Rhagionidae or snipe flies are a small family of flies.
They get their name from the similarity of their often prominent proboscis that looks like the beak of a snipe.
Description
Rhagionidae are medium-sized to large flies with slender bodies ...
).
* ''
Afromelittodes solis'' Oldroyd & van Bruggen, 1963 - South Africa - NorthWest Province, (Diptera,
Asilidae
The Asilidae are the robber fly family, also called assassin flies. They are powerfully built, bristly flies with a short, stout proboscis enclosing the sharp, sucking Insect mouthparts#Hypopharynx, hypopharynx. The name "robber flies" reflects t ...
).
* ''
Cryptochaetum utilis'' van Bruggen, 1960 - South Africa - KwaZulu-Natal, (Cryptochaetidae).
* ''
Neosciara wendalinae'' van Bruggen, 1954 - the Netherlands, (Diptera,
Lycoriidae).
Plants
* ''
Payena gigas'' van Bruggen, 1958 - Malaysia (Borneo: Sabah), (
Sapotaceae
240px, '' Madhuca longifolia'' var. ''latifolia'' in Narsapur, Medak district, India
The Sapotaceae are a family of flowering plants belonging to the order (biology)">order Ericales">family (biology)">family of flowering plants belonging to th ...
).
* ''
Payena lamii'' van Bruggen, 1958 - Malaysia (Borneo: Sarawak), (Sapotaceae).
* ''
Pupureopayena'' van Bruggen, 1958 - the type species: ''
Pupureopayena dasyphylla'' (Miquel) Pierre, 1885 (Sapotaceae).
Taxa named in honour
The following taxa have been named in honour (
eponym
An eponym is a noun after which or for which someone or something is, or is believed to be, named. Adjectives derived from the word ''eponym'' include ''eponymous'' and ''eponymic''.
Eponyms are commonly used for time periods, places, innovati ...
s) of Dolf van Bruggen:
;Arachnida
* ''
Hamataliwa vanbruggeni'' Deeleman-Reinhold, 2009 Type locality: Malaysian Borneo, W. Sabah, Mt.Kinabalu area, Sorinsim (Arachnida,
Oxyopidae
Lynx spiders (Oxyopidae) is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1870. Most species make little use of webs, instead spending their lives as hunting spiders on plants. Many species frequent flowers in particular, ...
).
;Diplopoda
* ''
Spinotarsus bruggenorum'' Kraus, 1966 Type locality: Zululand, Ndumu Game Reserve, Engabateni forest (
Diplopoda
Millipedes (originating from the Latin , "thousand", and , "foot") are a group of arthropods that are characterised by having two pairs of jointed legs on most body segments; they are known scientifically as the class Diplopoda, the name derive ...
).
;Insecta
* ''
Diopsis vanbruggeni
''Diopsis'' is the type genus of stalk-eyed flies: placed in the subfamily Diopsinae and first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1775. Species are recorded from Africa and south-east Asia.
Species such as ''Diopsis macrophthalma'' (synonym ''D. tho ...
'' H. R. Feijen & C. Feijen, 2009 Type locality: Malawi, Ntchisi rainforest, small tributary stream of Mahatope River (Diptera,
Diopsidae
Stalk-eyed flies are insects of the fly family Diopsidae. The family is distinguished from most other flies by most members of the family possessing "eyestalks": projections from the sides of the head with the eyes at the end. Some fly species fr ...
).
* ''
Notiophygus vanbruggeni'' John, 1964 Type locality: Zululand (Coleoptera,
Discolomidae)
axon mentioned in the Zoological Record, but not found in publication
* ''
Phaenocarpa vanbruggeni'' van Achterberg, 2009 Type locality: Madagascar, Tanatare, Périnet (Hymenoptera,
Braconidae
The Braconidae are a family of parasitoid wasps. After the closely related Ichneumonidae, braconids make up the second-largest family in the order Hymenoptera, with about 17,000 recognized species and many thousands more undescribed. One analysis ...
).
* ''
Selinda bruggeni'' Theron, 1986 Type locality: Zimbabwe, Chirinda Forest,
Mount Selinda (Homoptera,
Cicadellidae).
* ''
Termitotrox vanbruggeni'' Krikken, 2008 Type locality: Kenya, Karen (Coleoptera,
Scarabaeidae
The family Scarabaeidae, as currently defined, consists of over 35,000 species of beetles worldwide; they are often called scarabs or scarab beetles. The classification of this family has undergone significant change. Several groups formerly tre ...
).
;Gastropoda
* ''
Apera bruggeni'' Forcart, 1967 Type locality: South Africa, Limpopo Prov. (
Chlamydephoridae
''Chlamydephorus'' is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Chlamydephoridae. It is the only genus within the family Chlamydephoridae.Herbert D. G. (1997). "The terrestrial slugs of KwaZul ...
).
* ''
Bruggenina'' Mead, 2004 Type species by original designation ''
Archachatina sandgroundi'' Bequaert, 1950 (
Achatinidae
Achatinidae (New Latin, from Greek "''agate''") is a family of medium to large sized tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks from Africa.
Well known species include '' Achatina achatina'' the Giant African Snail, and '' L ...
).
* ''
Bruggennea
''Bruggennea'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.
The generic name ''Bruggennea'' is in honor of Dutch malacologist Adolph Cornelis van Bruggen.
Distribution
The dis ...
'' Dance, 1972 Type species by original designation: ''
Sinoennea laidlawi'' Dance, 1970 (
Streptaxidae
Streptaxidae is a family of carnivorous air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade
Stylommatophora.
Streptaxidae are monophyletic while all subfamilies and several genera are polyphyletic.
Six Streptaxi ...
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Centrafricarion bruggeni'' Van Mol, 1970 Type locality: Malawi, Nyika Plateau, Zozu Chipolo Forest (
Urocyclidae
Urocyclidae is a family (biology), family of air-breathing land snails, semi-slugs and land slugs, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicarionoidea.
Some species within this family make and use l ...
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Chrysallida vanbruggeni'' van Aartsen & Corgan, 1996 New name for ''
Odostomia ornata'' Turton, 1932 not H. & A. Adams, 1853 (
Pyramidellidae
Pyramidellidae, common name the pyram family, or pyramid shells, is a voluminous taxonomic family of mostly small and minute ectoparasitic sea snails, marine heterobranch gastropod molluscs. The great majority of species of pyrams are micromol ...
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Cingula bruggeni
''Cingula'' is a genus of minute sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family (biology), family Rissoidae.
Species
Species within the genus ''Cingula'' include:
* ''Cingula aequa'' (E. A. Smith, 1890)
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'' Verduin, 1984 Type locality: Spain, Strait of Gibraltar, Tarifa (
Rissoidae
Rissoidae is a large family of sea snails. Members of the Rissoidae are very small in size and possess an operculum.
Distribution and habitat
Rissoidae are found worldwide. They live on sandy or gravel bottoms among algae or marine plants. Th ...
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Cyclostremiscus vanbruggeni'' De Jong & Coomans, 1988 Type locality: Caribbean Sea (
Tornidae
Tornidae is a family (biology), family of very small and minute sea snails with an Operculum (gastropod), operculum, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Littorinimorpha. This family used to be known as the Vitrinellidae.Bouchet ...
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Chloritis vanbruggeni'' Maassen, 2009 Type locality: Indonesia, Central Sulawesi, Pulau
slandPeleng, Gunung
ountTatarandang (
Camaenidae
Camaenidae is a Family (biology), family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea, the typical snails and their allies. This is one of the most diverse families i ...
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Gulella bruggeni'' Cole & Herbert, 2009 Type locality: South Africa, E. Cape, Transkei, Hluleka Nature Reserve (Streptaxidae).
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Gulella mkuu'' Rowson, Seddon & Tattersfield, 2009
[Rowson B., Seddon M. B. & Tattersfield P. (2009). "A new species of Gulella (Pulmonata: Streptaxidae) from montane forest in the Ndoto Mountains, Kenya". ''Zoologische Mededelingen'' 83'']
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. Type locality: Kenya, Rift Valley Province, Samburu District, Ndoto Mountains (Streptaxidae). Dedication in the reference include: "From Swahili noun or adjective ''mkuu'', meaning great, principal, elder, chief, etc. As a noun in apposition, with reference to the size of the shell, but also to Dr A.C. van Bruggen, a distinguished and esteemed contributor to African malacology."
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Inchoatia megdova bruggeni'' Gittenberger & Uit de Weerd, 2009 Type locality: Greece, Thessalia, Trikala, 7.5 km WNW of Pyli (= Pili), 8.5 km S of Elati along road to Agh. Prokopios (
Clausiliidae
Clausiliidae, also known by the common name door snails, is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of small, very elongate, mostly Gastropod shell#Chirality in gastropods, left-handed, air-breathing land snails, sinistral terre ...
).
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Mitrella bruggeni'' van Aartsen, Menkhorst & Gittenberger, 1984 New name for ''Mitrella broderipi'' auct. not Sowerby, 1844 (
Columbellidae
The Columbellidae, the dove snails or dove shells, are a family of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the order Neogastropoda.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2010). Columbellidae. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marin ...
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Parennea vanbruggeni'' de Winter, 2008 Type locality: Cameroon, Sud Province, Meka’a-II, W of Nyangong (Streptaxidae).
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''Plekocheilus'' (''Eurytus'') ''bruggeni'' Breure, 1978 Type locality: Peru, Dept. Pasco, Huancabamba (
Orthalicidae
Orthalicidae (orthalicid land snails) are a family of tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks are classified in the subfamily Orthalicoidea of the order Stylommatophora.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase ...
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Sunetta bruggeni'' Fischer-Piette, 1974
[Fischer-Piette E. (1974). "Sur les Veneridae de l’océan indien occidental (Mollusca, Pelecypoda)". ''Tethys'' 5: 267–316.] New name for ''
Sunetta ovalis'' Sowerby, 1892 not Martin, 1880 (
Veneridae
The Veneridae or venerids, common name: Venus (mythology), Venus clams, are a very large family of minute to large, saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs. Over 500 living species of venerid bivalves are known, most of which are edible, and m ...
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References
This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference.
[Breure A. S. H., Gittenberger E., Maassen W. J. M. & de Winter A. J. (July 2009) "In and out of Africa: Dr A.C. van Bruggen, keen educator and eminent biologist". '']Zoologische Mededelingen
''Zoologische Mededelingen'' was a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal publishing papers and monographs on animal systematics. The publisher was the National Museum of Natural History Naturalis in the Netherlands. The first issue appeared ...
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External links
Articles by A. C. van Bruggen at
Naturalis
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Although its current name and organization are relatively ...
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* Breure A. S. H., Gittenberger E. & Winter A. J. de (2016). "In memoriam Dr A.C. van Bruggen 1929-2016". ''Basteria'' 80: 161–170.
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1929 births
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Dutch malacologists
Dutch entomologists
20th-century Dutch botanists
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Leiden University alumni