Mattheus Marinus Schepman

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Mattheus Marinus Schepman (1908)

Mattheus Marinus Schepman (born August 17, 1847 in Rhoon , † November 19, 1919 in Bosch en Duin ) was one of the most important Dutch malacologists .

By collecting, swapping and buying things himself, Mattheus Marinus Schapman had assembled one of the most important shell collections of molluscs in the Netherlands. After his death in 1920, the University of Amsterdam (ZMA) bought his library and collection (9000 species in 1250 genres) for 6205 guilders .

Species table from Schepman's 494-page main work The Prosobranchia of the Siboga Expedition

He was given the opportunity to identify and describe the mollusks that Max Wilhelm Carl Weber had brought with him from the important Siboga expedition in Dutch East India in 1899–1900. Between 1908 and 1913, Schepman published descriptions of about 2500 species in seven volumes , many of them new to science. In total he wrote more than 60 malacological publications. Of the 450 or so newly described taxa, including 6 genera and a family of underwater cave snails ( Neritiliidae ), 192 are still valid species in 2014 according to the World Register of Marine Species .

In honor of Mattheus Marinus Schapman, the following species were named after him:

  • Argyropeza schepmaniana Melvill, 1912
  • Bathyliotina schepmani Habe, 1953
  • Clavosurcula schepmani Sysoev, 1997
  • Epitonium schepmani (Melvill, 1910)
  • Lucerapex schepmani Shuto, 1970
  • Mitra schepmani Salisbury & Guillot de Suduiraut, 2003
  • Mitrella schepmani Monsecour & Monsecour, 2007
  • Natica schepmani Thiele, 1925
  • Neilonella Schepmani Prashad, 1932
  • Pagodidaphne schepmani (Thiele, 1925)
  • Trivellona schepmani (signs, 1941)

literature

  • Tom Eichhorst: Book Review: "Mattheus Marinus Schepman (1847-1919) and His Contributions to Malacology" . In: American Conchologist . tape 39 , no. 2 , 2011, p. 37 . ( pdf )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ World Register of Marine Species , accessed March 28, 2014

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Schepman, Mattheus Marinus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch malacologist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Rhoon
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1919
Place of death Bosch en Duin