Victor Sterki (September 26, 1846 in

Solothurn Solothurn ( ; ; ; ; ) is a town, a municipality, and the capital of the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. It is located in the north-west of Switzerland on the banks of the Aare and on the foot of the Weissenstein Jura mountains. The town is ...

, Switzerland – January 25, 1933 in New Philadelphia, OH)"Victor Sterki"
.

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, accessed 23 April 2011. was a

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 ...

from

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who lived in the

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. He worked as an assistant in the Section of Invertebrates in the

from 1909 to 1933. Malacological collections by Sterki of

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have 4000 lots and of

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have 12,000 lots. Both collections are deposited in the

. The malacological journal '' Sterkiana'' and the land snail species '' Guppya sterkii'' were named after him.Victor Sterki
/ref> Pilsbry H. A. (1946). ''Land Mollusca of North America (north of Mexico), vol. II part 1'', 1946, pg. 246.

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1846 births 1933 deaths Swiss emigrants to the United States Swiss malacologists People from Solothurn {{Switzerland-scientist-stub