David R. Lindberg
Encyclopedia
David R. Lindberg is an American malacologist
and professor of integrative biology
at the University of California, Berkeley
. He is also the Curator for the University of California Museum of Paleontology
and co-editor of the journal Molecular Systematics and Phylogeography of Mollusks.
Much of his work has focused on sea snail
s, specifically on limpet
s, on the phylogeny of the Patellogastropoda
, and various other gastropod groups.
Lindberg renamed the order Docoglossa to Patellogastropoda in 1986. He is also notable for naming the subclass Eogastropoda
, and proposing that the taxonomy of the Gastropoda be rewritten in terms of strictly monophyletic groups.
Malacology
Malacology is the branch of invertebrate zoology which deals with the study of the Mollusca , the second-largest phylum of animals in terms of described species after the arthropods. Mollusks include snails and slugs, clams, octopus and squid, and numerous other kinds, many of which have shells...
and professor of integrative biology
Biology
Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...
at the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
. He is also the Curator for the University of California Museum of Paleontology
University of California Museum of Paleontology
The University of California Museum of Paleontology is a paleontology museum located on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley....
and co-editor of the journal Molecular Systematics and Phylogeography of Mollusks.
Much of his work has focused on sea snail
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
s, specifically on limpet
Limpet
Limpet is a common name for a number of different kinds of saltwater and freshwater snails ; it is applied to those snails that have a simple shell which is more or less conical in shape, and either is not spirally coiled, or appears not to be coiled in the adult snails.The name limpet is most...
s, on the phylogeny of the Patellogastropoda
Patellogastropoda
Patellogastropoda, common name true limpets and historically called Docoglossa, is a major phylogenetic group of marine gastropods, seen either as a clade or as a taxonomic order.-Taxonomy:Patellogastropoda was proposed by David R...
, and various other gastropod groups.
Lindberg renamed the order Docoglossa to Patellogastropoda in 1986. He is also notable for naming the subclass Eogastropoda
Eogastropoda
Eogastropoda was a previously used taxonomic category of snails or gastropods, a subclass which was erected by Ponder and Lindberg in 1997. It was one of two great divisions of the class Gastropoda, the snails. The other subclass of gastropods was the Orthogastropoda.Eogastropoda were the more...
, and proposing that the taxonomy of the Gastropoda be rewritten in terms of strictly monophyletic groups.
Genera and species containing the name Lindberg
Judging from the year the species were named, only a few of the following species can be named after David R. Lindberg.- Bathyglycinde lindbergi (Uschakov, 1955)
- Bathyraja lindbergi Ishiyama & Ishihara, 1977
- Bogidiella lindbergi Ruffo, 1958
- Cyclopteropsis lindbergi Soldatov, 1930
- Dugesia lindbergi de Beauchamp, 1959
- Eualus lindbergi Kobyakova, 1955
- Genioliparis lindbergi Andriashev & Neyelov, 1976
- Glycinde lindbergi Uschakov, 1955 : synonym of Bathyglycinde lindbergi (Uschakov, 1955)
- Gobio gobio lepidolaemus natio lindbergi Turdakov & Piskarev, 1955 : synonym of Gobio gobio gobio (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Gurjanovilia lindbergi Jakovleva, 1952 : synonym of Tripoplax lindbergi (Jakovleva, 1952)
- Hadropogonichthys lindbergi Fedorov, 1982
- Halicyclops lindbergi Rocha C.E.F., 1995
- Iothia lindbergi McLean, 1985
- Lindbergichthys
- Lindbergichthys mizops (Günther, 1880) : synonym of Lepidonotothen mizops (Günther, 1880)
- Lindbergichthys nudifrons (Lönnberg, 1905) : synonym of Lepidonotothen nudifrons (Lönnberg, 1905)
- Liparis lindbergi Krasyukova, 1984 : synonym of Liparis latifrons Schmidt, 1950
- Lottia lindbergiLottia lindbergiLottia lindbergi is a species of sea snail, a true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Lottiidae, one of the families of true limpets....
Sasaki & Okutani, 1994 - Lycodes lindbergi Popov, 1931 : synonym of Lycodes uschakovi Popov, 1931
- Machilis lindbergi Wygodzinsky, 1959
- Mesochra lindbergi Petkovski, 1964
- Mycale lindbergi Koltun, 1958
- Peramphithoe lindbergi (Gurjanova, 1938)
- Potamon gedrosianum lindbergi Pretzmann, 1966 : synonym of Potamon ruttneri Pretzmann, 1962
- Sarothrogammarus lindbergi G. Karaman, 1969
- Scoiiodota lindbergi D'yakonov in D'yakonov et al., 1958 : synonym of 'Scoliodotella lindbergi' (D'yakonov in D'yakonov et al., 1958)
- Scoliodota lindbergi
- Scoliodotella lindbergi (D'yakonov in D'yakonov et al., 1958)
- Tripoplax lindbergi (Jakovleva, 1952)