Carl Agardh Westerlund (12 January 1831 – 28 February 1908 in

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) was a

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malacologist.

Biography

Westerlund was born at Berga in Kalmar County, Sweden. He became a student in Uppsala University in 1853 and studied at Lund University where he received his bachelor's degree in 1860 and became a Ph.D. in 1862. He worked as a temporary teacher in Malmö in 1858–1859 and in Landskrona 1860–1862, and was a teacher at the high school in Ronneby from 1862 to 1893.Westerlund, Karl Agardh
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, vol. 32 (1921), col. 43-44 Westerlund contributed much to the knowledge of the land and freshwater molluscs of the

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region, despite working under unfavourable conditions. His largest work was ''Fauna der in der paläarctischen Region... lebenden Binnenconchylien'' in 9 volumes published 1884–1890. He also contributed papers in ornithology and botany.

Works

*1865 ''Sveriges land- och sötvatten-mollusker, beskrifna af Carl Agardh Westerlund'' Lund, I kommission hos C.W.K. Gleerups sortiment * ''Fauna Molluscorum Terrestrium et Fluviatilium Sveciæ, Norvegiæ et Daniæ. Sveriges,Norges och Danmarks land och sötvatten-mollusker. I. Landmolluskerna''. Stockholm: Adolf Bonnier. + 296 p. * 1877 Sibiriens land- och sötvatten-mollusker. ''Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademins Handlingar ''(Ny Följd) 14 (12): 1–111, pl. * 1883.Von der Vega-expedition in Asien gesammelteBinnen mollusken. ''Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 1883'' 15 (3–4): 48–59 *1890 ''Katalog der in der Paläarctischen Region lebenden Binnenconchylien, von Dr. Carl Agardh Westerlund''. Karlshamn, E.G. Johansson's Buchdruckerei *1897 ''Synopsis molluscorum extramarinorum Scandinaviæ (Suecae, Norvegae, Danae & Fennae)'' Helsingfors : .n.

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* 1831 births 1908 deaths People from Kalmar Lund University alumni Uppsala University alumni Swedish malacologists 19th-century Swedish zoologists {{Sweden-scientist-stub