Otto Andreas Lowson Mörch (his last name also spelled Mørch) (1828-1878) was a biologist

Biologist

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, specifically a malacologist. He lived in Sweden

Sweden

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, in Denmark

Denmark

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, and in France

France

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Taxa described

Bibliography and taxa described by Otto Andreas Lowson Mörch include:

1863

Mörch O. A. L. (1863). "Revision des especes du genre Oxynoe Rafinesque, et Lobiger Krohn". Journal de Conchyliologie 11: 43-48.

• Oxynoe antillarum
  Oxynoe antillarum
  Oxynoe antillarum is a species of small sea snail or sea slug, a bubble snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Oxynoidae.-Distribution:The type locality for this species is Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.-Description:...
  
  Mörch, 1863 - on page 46.

1864

Mörch O. A. L. (1864). "Fortegnelse over de i Danmark forekommende land- og ferskvandsblöddyr". Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den Naturhistoriske Forening i Kjöbenhavn (2)1863(17-22): 265-367.

• Valvata macrostoma
  Valvata macrostoma
  Valvata macrostoma is a species of minute freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Valvatidae, the valve snails.-Habitat:...
  
  Mörch, 1864
• Zonitidae
  Zonitidae
  Zonitidae, common name the true glass snails, are a family of mostly rather small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Zonitoidea....
  
   Mörch, 1864, also known as the "true glass snails".

External links

• works by Otto Andreas Lowson Mörch at Internet Archive
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