David R. Lindberg

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David R. Lindberg (* 1948 in the USA ) is an American malacologist and professor of integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley. In addition to his work on the Patellogastropoda group , he is known for the taxonomy by Ponder & Lindberg (1997).

Life

The main focus of his work is the phylogenesis of the Patellogastropoda and various other groups of snails . One of his results is the renaming of the order Docoglossa in Patellogastropoda (1986).

His main work consists in a new taxonomy of snails. On the basis of new findings, it turned out that the taxonomy of snails, which was valid until the 1990s and dates back to Johannes Thiele, had paraphylic taxa. It was particularly serious that this particularly affected the Prosobranchia subclass, which was very high in the hierarchy . The previously valid trisection of the Gastropoda class could no longer be maintained. With Winston F. Ponder , he proposed an adjustment of the taxonomy of snails. A first step was to replace the tripartite division with a developmentally motivated, oriented division into two parts. With Winston F. Ponder he therefore introduced the new subclass Eogastropoda ( early snails ). The counterpart is the subclass of the Orthogastropoda ( real snails ). In a second step, the revision was consistently continued downwards. As a result, a new taxonomy with strictly monophyletic groups was proposed. This proposal was accepted, and the taxonomy is now known as the Ponder & Lindberg (1997) snail taxonomy. It is the last taxonomy of snails to date that is based on purely morphological principles. Since the replacing taxonomy by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005), phylogenetic aspects have been in the foreground.

David R. Lindberg is currently Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley . He is also curator of the University of California Museum of Paleontology and co-editor of the journal Molecular Systematics and Phylogeography of Mollusks .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Coan, EV, Kabat, AR & Petit, RE: February 15, 2009; 2,400 years of malacology, 6th ed . ; 830 pp. + 32 pp. [Annex of Collations]; American Malacological Society.
  2. ↑ Lindberg, DR: 1986; Radular evolution in the Patellogastropoda ; American Malacological Bulletin.
  3. ↑ Ponder, WF & Lindberg, DR: 1997; Towards a phylogeny of gastropod molluscs: An analysis using morphological data . Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.
personal data
SURNAME Lindberg, David R.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American zoologist and malacologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH United States