Winston F. Ponder

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Winston Frank Ponder (born July 3, 1941 ) is a New Zealand malacologist .

education

Winston F. Ponder studied at the University of Auckland in New Zealand . He acquired the following qualifications: B.Sc. (1963), M.Sc. with 1st Class Honors (1965), Ph.D. (1968) and received the D.Sc. (1991) awarded.

Research career

Ponder was a senior researcher in the Malacology Department of the Australian Museum in Sydney. He was instrumental in building one of the world's largest mollusc collections at the Australian Museum in Sydney . His main work, however, is the taxonomy of snails published with David R. Lindberg in 1997 . He discovered, described and named many marine snail species, especially micro-snails. After more than forty years of successful research, he finished his work at the museum. He is now retired and will remain an honorary member of the museum.

Ponder published his own publications and was also active as an editor, such as at the scientific societies of the Malacological Society of Australasia , the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County , the South Australian Museum in Adelaide and the journal Molluscan Research . He was also President of the Society of Australian Systematic Biologists .

Scientific contributions

His entry into the scientific career began around 1964. At that time he was working with Richard Dell and Alan Beu on collections of exhibits about the Antarctic . As a result of this activity was a monograph on some classes of Antarctic molluscs: mussels ( Bivalvia ), Chitons ( Polyplacophora ) and Scaphopods ( Scaphopoda ). Since then he has published more than 100 books and essays. Many of the publications deal with Australian freshwater molluscs as well as invertebrate conservation .

His greatest scientific contribution was a new taxonomy of snails (Gastropoda), which he published in 1997 together with David R. Lindberg . It stands in the continuity of the taxonomies of Henri Milne Edwards (1848) and Johannes Thiele (1929-1935) and is the last major publication on the taxonomy of snails, which is based on morphological principles, which means that it is based on external and internal characteristics of the snails was based and not on genetic methods of DNA or RNA analysis.

Taxonomy solves the polyphyly problem of the Prosobranchia subclass by splitting this taxon. It subsequently led to a new system of snails, which was decisive until the introduction of the taxonomy by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005).

In 2008 he was editor of the book " Phylogeny and Evolution of the Mollusca " together with David R. Lindberg . Based on the re-examination and evaluation of morphological characteristics as well as molecular and fossil data, 36 expert contributions were made, which gave an overview of the current state of knowledge of the evolutionary history of molluscs .

In 2008, Ponder received the Australian Marine Sciences Association Silver Jubilee Award for his life's work in marine mollusc research . In 2009 he received the Clarke Medal from the Royal Society of New South Wales .

Some of the snail taxa introduced or co-introduced by WF Ponder

Higher order taxa

Superfamilies

Familys

Subfamilies

Genera

Dedication names

literature

  • Winston F. Ponder, A. Warén : Classification of the Caenogastropoda and Heterostropha - A list of the family-group names and higher taxa . In: Malacological Review . Supplement 4 , 1988, ISSN  0076-3004 , pp. 288-328 (English).
  • Winson. F. Ponder, JH Waterhouse : A new genus and species of Lymnaeidae from the lower Franklin River, South Western Tasmania, Australia . In: Journal of Molluscan Studies . Volume 63, Issue 3 , August 1, 1997, pp. 441–468 (English, online [accessed March 27, 2018] abstract ).
  • Stephanie Clark, Alison C. Miller, Winston F. Ponder : Revision of the snail genus Austropyrgus (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae) . A morphostatic radiation of freshwater gastropods in southeastern Australia . In: Records of the Australian Museum . Supplement 28 , 2003, p. 1–109 , doi : 10.3853 / j.0812-7387.28.2003.1377 (English).
  • Winston F. Ponder : Monograph of the Australian Bithyniidae (Caenogastropoda: Rissooidea) . In: Zootaxa . 230 . Magnolia Press , Auckland 2003, ISBN 1-877354-02-3 , pp. 1–126 (English, online [PDF; 17 kB ; accessed on March 27, 2018] Contains 17 newly described species of the genus Gabbia ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Winston F. Ponder, David R. Lindberg , Towards a phylogeny of gastropod molluscs; an analysis using morphological characters . In: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society . Volume 119 , 1997, pp.  83-265 (English).
  2. ↑ P. Bouchet, JP Rocroi : Working classification of the Gastropoda . In: Malacologia . Volume 27 , 2005, ISSN 0076-2997 , pp.   239-283 (English).
  3. ↑ Winston F. Ponder, David R. Lindberg (Eds.): Phylogeny and Evolution of the Mollusca . University of California Press , 2008, pp.  488 .
  4. ^ Rebecca Hancock : About the Museum - Recognizing research on molluscs . September 17, 2008, archived from the original on May 30, 2009 ; accessed on January 21, 2016 (English).
  5. ↑ Bulletin and Proceedings 333 . (PDF 914 kB) The Royal Society of New South Wales , archived from the original on February 16, 2011 ; accessed on September 21, 2014 (English).
  6. ^ Ponder, Waterhouse : A new genus and species of Lymnaeidae from the lower Franklin River, South Western Tasmania, Australia . In: Journal of Molluscan Studies . 1997 ( abstract ).
personal data
SURNAME Ponder, Winston F.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ponder, Winston Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand zoologist and malacologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1941