David R. Lindberg (1948, U.S.A.) is an American malacologist and professor of integrative

biology Biology is the scientific study of life and living organisms. It is a broad natural science that encompasses a wide range of fields and unifying principles that explain the structure, function, growth, History of life, origin, evolution, and ...

at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

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

sea snail Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...

s, specifically on

limpet Limpets are a group of aquatic snails with a conical gastropod shell, shell shape (patelliform) and a strong, muscular foot. This general category of conical shell is known as "patelliform" (dish-shaped). Existing within the class Gastropoda, ...

s, on the

phylogeny A phylogenetic tree or phylogeny is a graphical representation which shows the evolutionary history between a set of species or Taxon, taxa during a specific time.Felsenstein J. (2004). ''Inferring Phylogenies'' Sinauer Associates: Sunderland, M ...

of the

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

, and various other

gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...

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 biological cladistics for the classification of organisms, monophyly is the condition of a taxonomic grouping being a clade – that is, a grouping of organisms which meets these criteria: # the grouping contains its own most recent co ...

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'' 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'' Fedorov, 1982 * '' Halicyclops lindbergi'' Rocha C.E.F., 1995 * '' Iothia lindbergi'' McLean, 1985 * '' Lindbergichthys'' * ''Lindbergichthys mizops'' (Günther, 1880) : synonym of '' Lepidonotothen mizops'' (Günther, 1880) * ''Lindbergichthys nudifrons'' (Lönnberg, 1905) : synonym of '' Lepidonotothen nudifrons'' (Lönnberg, 1905) * ''Liparis lindbergi'' Krasyukova, 1984 : synonym of '' Liparis latifrons'' Schmidt, 1950 * '' Lottia lindbergi'' Sasaki & Okutani, 1994 * ''Lycodes lindbergi'' Popov, 1931 : synonym of '' Lycodes uschakovi'' 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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Webpages for LindLab at BerkeleyHis profile at Berkeley
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lindberg, David R. American malacologists Members of the International Society for Science and Religion University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty 1948 births Living people

Genera and species containing the name Lindberg

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