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and became a private tutor for the daughter of Consul General Blau in Sarajevo whom he later married. While in Bosnia, he began to study the zoology of the region and wrote a Fauna von Bosnia as his doctoral dissertation in 1872. His brother Paul Georg took up a diplomatic position in China and under
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by Möllendorff in 1895 in honour of Don José Florencio Quadras, a Spanish malacologist who was also based in Manila at that time. He examined the specimens from Southeast Asia and produced an inventory of land molluscs of the Philippines in 1898. He published over 128 publications and described 102
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and Hongkong before moving to Manila in 1886. During his travels he collected shells. Poor health forced him to transfer to Lithuania in 1896 and he moved to Frankfurt am Main in 1901. He gave lectures on consular matters and in his spare time he worked on the mollusc specimens at the Senckenberg
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Davis GM (1979). "The origin and evolution of the gastropod family Pomatiopsidae, with emphasis on the Mekong river Triculinae".
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the influence of his father in law, he too became a diplomat. He studied Chinese and worked as an interpreter in
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to economist Georg (1811–61) and Emma née Meyer (1817–72). He studied chemistry and zoology at the
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stored in glass vials. The species of small snails was later named
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list of marine species named by Otto Franz von Möllendorff
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Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011).
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Zilch, Adolf (1994). "Moellendorff, Otto Franz von".
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Paul Georg von Möllendorff
Hoyerswerda
University of Halle
Canton
Wilhelm Kobelt
malacologist
Jose Rizal
Dapitan
Manila
large sea snails known as tun shells
species
freshwater snails
Oncomelania quadrasi
rat snake
Elaphe moellendorffi
Reisen im Archipel der Philippinen
WoRMS
list of marine species named by Otto Franz von Möllendorff
2,400 years of malacology, 6th ed.
Archived
Wayback Machine
Neue Deutsche Biographie 17
Academy of natural Sciences of Philadelphia
ISBN
978-1-4223-1926-0
at Google Books
ISBN
978-1-4214-0135-5
"Otto Franz von Moellendorff"

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