Heinrich Rudolf Simroth (10 May 1851 Riestedt (now a part of

Sangerhausen Sangerhausen () is a town in Saxony-Anhalt, central Germany, capital of the district of Mansfeld-Südharz. It is situated southeast of the Harz, approx. east of Nordhausen, and west of Halle (Saale). About 26,000 people live in Sangerhausen ( ...

) – 31 August 1917 Gautzsch near

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), was a German

zoologist Zoology ( , ) is the scientific study of animals. Its studies include the structure, embryology, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct, and how they interact with their ecosystems. Zoology is one ...

and

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 ...

. He was a professor of zoology in

. Academic career: 1888–1917

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."Prof. Dr. phil. Heinrich Rudolf Simroth"
Professorenkatalog der Universität Leipzig , catalogus professorum lipsiensis, accessed 15 August 2009. He was a specialist for

slug Slug, or land slug, is a common name for any apparently shell-less Terrestrial mollusc, terrestrial gastropod mollusc. The word ''slug'' is also often used as part of the common name of any gastropod mollusc that has no shell, a very reduced ...

s. He discovered and described various new species of slugs. Species of animals named in honor of him include: * '' Bulimulus simrothi'' (Reibisch, 1892) – snail * '' Pseudaneitea simrothi'' (Suter, 1896) – slug * ''

Arion simrothi ''Arion simrothi'' is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Arionidae, the round-back slugs. Distribution This species is found only in Germany Germany, officially the Federal Rep ...

'' - slug * ''

Tapinoma simrothi ''Tapinoma simrothi'' is a species of ant in the genus '' Tapinoma''. Described by Krausse in 1911, the species is endemic to many countries spanning in Africa, Asia and Europe Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisp ...

'' Krausse, 1911 - ant * ''

Bipalium simrothi ''Bipalium'' is a genus of large predatory land planarians. They are often loosely called "hammerhead worms" or "broadhead planarians" because of the distinctive shape of their head region. Land planarians are unique in that they possess a "cree ...

'' - planarian It was thought that there is no collection by Simroth. His collection of

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of 43 slugs has been found

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in Berlin in 2010.Glaubrecht M. (2010). "Slug(-gish) science, or an annotated catalogue of the types of tropical vaginulid and agriolimacid pulmonates (Mollusca, Gastropoda), described by Heinrich Simroth (1851–1917), in the Natural History Museum Berlin". ''

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'' 86(2): 315-335. .

Bibliography

* Simroth H. (1886). "Weitere Mittheilungen über palaearktische Nacktschnecken". ''Jahrbücher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft'' 13: 16-34. * Simroth H. (1891)
"Die Nacktschnecken der portugiesisch-azorischen Fauna in ihrem Verhältnis zu denen der paläarktischen Region überhaupt"
''Nova Acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Germanicae Naturae Curiosorum'' 56: 201-424, Tab. IX-XVIII 9-18 Halle. * Simroth H. (1892). "Ueber die nackten Limaciden und Testacelliden des Kaukasus". ''Sitzungsberichte der naturforschenden Gesellschaft Leipzig'': 40-49. * Simroth H. (1892–1894). Chapters Polyplacophora, Amphineura and Scaphopoda. In: Bronn H. G. (1892–1894). ''Dr. H. G. Bronns Klassen und Ordnungen des Tierreichs''. Band 3, Mollusca
Abteilung 1, Amphineura und Scaphopoda
* Simroth H. (1894). "Ueber einige von Herrn Dr. Sturany auf der Balkanhalbinsel erbeutete Nacktschnecken"
''Annalen des kaiserlich-königlichen Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums'' 9
(3): 391-394, Taf. 19. Wien. * Simroth H. (1896). "Über bekannte und neue Urocycliden". ''Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft'' 19: 281–312. * Simroth H. (1898). "Über die Gattung ''Limax'' in Russland". ''Ezhegodnik Zoologicheskogo Muzeya Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk'' (Annuaire du Musée Zoologique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg) 3: 52-57. * Simroth H. (1901). ''Die Nacktschnecken des Russischen Reiches''. St.-Petersburg. 321 pp. * Simroth H. (1910). "Kaukasische und asiatische Limaciden und Raublungenschnecken". Ezhegodnik Zoologicheskogo Muzeya Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk (Annuaire du Musée Zoologique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg) 15: 499-560. * Simroth H. (1910). ''Lissopode Nacktschnecken von Madagaskar, den Comoren und Mauritius. Unter Berücksichtigung verwandter Arten''. In: Reise in Ostafrika in den Jahren 1903–1905. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse, 2 (A. Voeltzkow, ed.), 576–622. Schweizerbart, Stuttgart. * Simroth H. (1912)
''Neue Beiträge zur Kenntnis der kaukasischen Nacktschneckenfauna''
St. Petersburg (Russia), ''Izvestiya Kavkazskago Muzeya'' 6: 1-140. * Simroth H. (1914). "Beitrag zur Kentniss der Nacktschnecken Columbiens zugleich eine Uebersicht über die neotropische Nacktschnecken-Fauna überhaupt". ''Mémoires de la Société des Sciences naturelles de Neuchatel'' 5
270
��341. Tables XI-XIV.

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