Louis Charles Kiener

Louis Charles Kiener (born July 31, 1799 in Paris , † July 24, 1881 there ) was a French malacologist .

Bistolida kieneri, Hidalgo 1906

From the age of 12, Kiener was at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle , where he was taxidermist at the Department of Zoology.

He published a catalog of the mollusks in the Natural History Museum in Paris (he was in charge of the Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert collection ). There are many initial descriptions in it. The work is not dated and appeared in 165 livraisons from 1834, of which 138 are by Kiener and were published until 1850. It was continued by Paul-Henri Fischer from 1873 to 1879, but was not completed.

The red-bellied eagle and two sea snails ( Murexsul kieneri , Thais kieneri and the cowrie snail Bistolilda kieneri ) are named in his honor .

Fonts

• Spécies général et iconographie des coquilles vivantes comprenant la collection du Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Paris, la collection Lamarck, celle du prince Masséna (appartenant maintenant a MB Delessert) et les découvertes récentes des voyageurs, 11 volumes, Paris: Chez Rousseau: JB Ballière, Biodiversity Library from 1834
  • English translation of six sections from the work of David Humphreys Storer : General species and iconography of recent shells: comprising the Massena Museum, the collection of Lamarck, the collection of the Museum of Natural History, and the recent discoveries of travelers, Boston: Ticknor 1837

literature

• Marien J. Faber, The holy grail of Louis Charles Kiener's Spécies général et iconographie des coquilles vivantes, Miscellanea Malacologica 5, 2011, 61–70
• CD Sherborn, BB Woodward: Notes on the date of publication of the parts of Kiener's Spécies général et iconographie des coquilles vivantes etc. (1834–1880), Proc. Malacological Society of London, Volume 4, 1901, 216-219

References and comments

1. ^ Smithsonian Libraries, Catalog