Gary Rosenberg
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Gary Rosenberg is an American scientist, a biologist, a malacologist. He is currently the Pilsbry Chair and Curator of Malacology at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. He is a member of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature
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Rosenberg created "Malacolog", an online Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca. He also contributed significantly to the Biotic Database of Indo-Pacific Marine Mollusks and created an interactive key to the land snails of the West Indian Island of Jamaica
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Rosenberg has described and named various taxa of mollusks, including:
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature
The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature is an organization dedicated to "achieving stability and sense in the scientific naming of animals". Founded in 1895, it currently comprises 28 members from 20 countries, mainly practicing zoological taxonomists...
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Rosenberg created "Malacolog", an online Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca. He also contributed significantly to the Biotic Database of Indo-Pacific Marine Mollusks and created an interactive key to the land snails of the West Indian Island of Jamaica
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...
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Rosenberg has described and named various taxa of mollusks, including:
- Genus ThalutaThalutaThaluta is a genus of small sea snail, marinegastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.-Species:Species within the genus Thaluta include:* Thaluta maxmarrowi* Thaluta takenoko...
Rosenberg & Callomon, 2004