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List of malacologists

This is a list of malacologists i.e. a list of notable scientists, biologists, zoologists or naturalists, who are or were interested in malacology, which is the scientific study of the Mollusca, i.e. snails, clams, octopus, etc. People who specialize in studying only or primarily the shells of mollusks are sometimes called conchologists instead of malacologists. Many of these malacologists are notable for having named species and other taxa of mollusks.

Contents

This list focuses primarily on people who study or studied recent taxa of mollusks rather than fossil mollusks, i.e., only a few paleontologists are included here. The list includes malacologists who are still alive, as well as those who lived in previous centuries. The list also includes researchers who devoted some of their research effort to malacology and some to other sciences.

Considering that mollusks are such a very large and diverse phylum of invertebrates, malacology in general is greatly understaffed in its research efforts. For example, there is no living malacological expert who can properly identify all the species of Onchidiidae (about 143 species). There are also not enough malacologists studying freshwater snails.

A

  • Donald Putnam Abbott (1920–1986) US
  • R. Tucker Abbott (1919–1995) US
  • William Adam (1909–1988) Belgium
  • Arthur Adams (1820–1878) Great Britain (brother of Henry Adams)
  • Charles Baker Adams (1814–1853) US
  • Henry Adams (zoologist) (1813–1877) Great Britain (1813–1877) (brother of Arthur Adams)
  • Johann Christian Albers (1795–1857) Germany
  • Joshua Alder (1792–1867) Great Britain
  • Frederick Aldrich (1927–1991) US
  • Truman Heminway Aldrich (1848–1932) US, civil engineer and paleontologist
  • César Marie Félix Ancey (1860–1906) France
  • George French Angas (1822–1886) Great Britain
  • Hermann Eduard Anton (1794–1872) Germany
  • Edwin Ashby (1861–1941) Australia, expert in chitons
  • Jean Victoire Audouin (1797–1841) France
  • B

  • Kikutaro Baba (1905–2001) Japan
  • Fred Baker (1854–1938) US
  • David Dwight Baldwin (1831–1912), Hawaii, US. Studied land snails of Hawaii.
  • Paul Bartsch (1871–1960) American malacologist and carcinologist of German origin
  • Frederick Bayer (1921–2007) US
  • William Henry Benson (1803–1870), malacologist "UK/India/South Africa"
  • Joseph Charles Bequaert
  • Rudolph Bergh
  • Samuel Stillman Berry
  • William G. Binney
  • Hope Black (born 1919) Australian
  • Willis Blatchley
  • Caesar Rudolf Boettger
  • Oskar Boettger
  • Ignaz von Born (1742–1791) Austria
  • Filippo Bonanni
  • Kristine Bonnevie (1872–1948) biologist and Norway's first female professor
  • Philippe Bouchet
  • Jules René Bourguignat
  • Thomas Edward Bowdich (1791–1824) England
  • John William Brazier (1842–1930) Australia
  • William Broderip
  • Captain Thomas Brown (naturalist) (1785–1862) Britain
  • Adolph Cornelis van Bruggen (A. C. van Bruggen, Dolf van Bruggen) (1929–2016) Netherlands and South Africa
  • Jean Guillaume Bruguière
  • Spiridon Brusina (1845–1909) Croatia
  • Rykel de Bruyne Netherlands
  • James Bulwer
  • John B. Burch
  • C

  • Frédéric Cailliaud
  • Philip Pearsall Carpenter
  • Thomas Frederic Cheeseman New Zealand
  • Johann Hieronymus Chemnitz
  • Jean-Charles Chenu
  • Carl Chun
  • George Hubbard Clapp
  • William J. Clench
  • Stefan Clessin
  • Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell
  • Matthew William Kemble Connolly (1872–1947) Great Britain and South Africa
  • Timothy Abbott Conrad
  • Charles Montague Cooke, Jr. (1874–1948) Hawaii
  • William Cooper (conchologist)
  • Alexandre Édouard Maurice Cossmann (1850–1924) France
  • James Hamilton Couper (1794–1866) US
  • Joseph Pitty Couthouy
  • James Charles Cox [M.D.] (1834–1912) Australia
  • Leslie Reginald Cox (1897–1965) UK
  • Percy Zachariah Cox [Major General, Sir] (1864–1937) UK and Iran
  • Henry Crampton
  • Joseph Charles Hippolyte Crosse
  • Hugh Cuming
  • Georges Cuvier
  • D

  • Dezallier d'Argenville
  • Emanuel Mendez da Costa
  • William Healey Dall
  • Philippe Dautzenberg
  • Léopold de Folin
  • Pierre Denys de Montfort
  • Richard Dell
  • Gérard Paul Deshayes
  • Charles des Moulins
  • Lewis Weston Dillwyn
  • Heinrich Wolfgang Ludwig Dohrn (1838–1913)Germany, also entomologist
  • Alcide d'Orbigny
  • Jacques Philippe Raymond Draparnaud
  • Wilhelm Dunker (1809–1885) Germany
  • E

  • Charles Eliot, full name: Charles Norton Edgcumbe Eliot (1862–1931)
  • Arthur Erskine Ellis, 1902–1983, [1]
  • William Keith Emerson
  • Bob Entrop
  • F

  • Jacques Sébastien François Léonce Marie Paul Fagot (1842–1908) French malacologist who often published as Paul Fagot
  • Jules Favre from Switzerland
  • James Ferriss
  • André Étienne d'Audebert de Férussac (1786–1836) France, also a naturalist
  • Harold John Finlay (1901–1951) New Zealand palaeontologist and conchologist
  • John Fleming (1785–1857) Scotland
  • Edward Forbes (1815–1845) from Britain
  • Lothar Forcart, Lothar H. E. W. Forcart (1902–1990) Switzerland
  • G

  • Joseph Paul Gaimard (1796–1858)
  • Andrew Garrett (explorer)
  • David Geyer
  • Theodore Gill
  • Gustave Gilson (1859–1944) Belgium, portrait
  • Johann Friedrich Gmelin
  • Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen
  • Joaquín González Hidalgo y Rodríguez (1839–1923) Spain, known as Hidalgo
  • Terrence Gosliner
  • Augustus Addison Gould
  • Stephen Jay Gould paleontologist who also studied land snails.
  • Arthur Fairfield Gray (1855–1944) US
  • Edward Whitaker Gray (1748–1806) Great Britain
  • Elizabeth Gray (1831–1924) Great Britain
  • Francis Calley Gray (1790–1856) US
  • John Edward Gray (1800–1875) Great Britain
  • Maria Emma Gray (1787–1876) Great Britain, wife of John Edward Gray
  • Oliver Peter Gray (19th/20th century) Great Britain
  • Russell Gray (died 1948) US
  • Sally J. Gray (born 1952) US
  • Samuel Frederick Gray (1766–1828) Great Britain
  • Thomas Gray (biologist) (1820–1910) Great Britain
  • F. Wayne Grimm (1941–2005) US and Canada
  • Karl Grobben
  • Alexandru Vasile Grossu (1910–2004) Romanian malacologist
  • Niccolò Gualtieri
  • Gerard Pierre Laurent Kalshoven Gude (1858–1924) Great Britain
  • J. T. Gulick (1832–1923) Hawaii, developed evolution theories with Charles Darwin
  • H

  • Fritz Haas (zoologist)
  • Tadashige Habe (1916–2001) Japan
  • Samuel Stehman Haldeman
  • Sylvanus Charles Thorp Hanley (1819–1899) Britain
  • Johann Daniel Wilhelm Hartmann Germany
  • Johan Coenraad van Hasselt (1797–1823) vertebratologist, he also studied mollusks from Java
  • William H. Heard
  • Charles Hedley (1862–1926) Britain, but mostly active in Australia
  • Georg Sebastian Helbling von Hirzenfeld (1751–1782) Austria
  • Joseph Heller (zoologist) Israel, malacologist
  • Leo George Hertlein
  • Pierre Marie Heude
  • Joaquín González Hidalgo y Rodríguez (1839–1923) Spain, known as Hidalgo
  • Shintarō Hirase 平瀬 信太郎 (Hirase Shintarō) (1884–1939) Japan
  • Yoichirō Hirase 平瀬 与一郎 (Hirase Yoichirō) (1859–1925) Japan, father of Shintarō Hirase
  • Thomas George Bond Howes (1853–1905) Great Britain portrait
  • Leslie Hubricht
  • Christian Hee Hwass
  • I

  • Tom Iredale (1880–1972) England
  • Arturo Issel (1842–1922) Italy
  • J

  • John Clarkson Jay (1808–1891) American amateur conchologist. [2]
  • John Gwyn Jeffreys (1809–1885)
  • Charles W. Johnson (naturalist) (1863–1932) American naturalist and malacologist
  • George Johnston (naturalist) (1797–1855) British malacologist
  • Israel Heymann Jonas (1795–1851) German malacologist
  • Félix Pierre Jousseaume
  • K

  • Pieter Kaas nl:Pieter Kaas
  • E. Alison Kay
  • Myra Keen US
  • Louis Charles Kiener
  • Richard Kilburn (1942–2013) (South Africa)
  • Jared Potter Kirtland
  • Roger Klocek (born 1948) Chicago region [3]
  • Jørgen Knudsen (born 6 March 1918) Denmark
  • Wilhelm Kobelt
  • Heinz Albert Kollmann, Heinz A. Kollmann (1939) Austria, prehistoric gastropods, website
  • Yoshio Kondo (1910–1990) Hawaii
  • Dieter Korn
  • Arthur Krause (1851–1920) Germany
  • Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Krauss
  • Endre Krolopp (1935–2010) Hungary, interested in Quaternary and Tertiary molluscs
  • Tokubei Kuroda
  • Heinrich Carl Küster (1807–1876) Germany, uncle of Emil Küster (1838–1921)
  • L

  • Frank Fortescue Laidlaw (1876–1963) United Kingdom
  • Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829) France
  • Aurèle La Rocque Canada
  • Charles Francis Laseron (1887–1959) US, Australia
  • Isaac Lea (1792–1886) US
  • José H. Leal Brazil
  • Michele Lessona (1823–1894) Italy
  • Mario Lessona (1855–1911) Italy
  • Jan Lever nl:Jan Lever (bioloog) (born 1922) Netherlands
  • John Lightfoot (biologist) (1735–1788) United Kingdom
  • Ilya Mikhailovich Likharev (1917–2003) Russia
  • David R. Lindberg (born 1948) US
  • Karl Emil Lischke – de:Karl Emil Lischke fr:Karl Emil Lischke (1813–1886)
  • Arnould Locard (1841–1904) France
  • Richard Thomas Lowe (1802–1874) United Kingdom
  • Sven Ludvig Lovén (1809–1895) Sweden, marine zoologist and malacologist
  • Dochiţa Lupu Romania, malacologist
  • M

  • Frank Mace MacFarland (1869–1951) US, Hopkins Marine Biological Station at Pacific Grove
  • William Macnae (1914–1975) South Africa.
  • Edward Henry Madge (1901–1970) Great Britain
  • Virginia Orr Maes (1920–1986) US, malacologist associated with the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
  • August Wilhelm Malm
  • Manuel Antonio E. Malaquias
  • Ernst Gustav Gotthelf Marcus (Ernesto) (1893–1968) Germany, Brazil, spouse of Eveline du Bois-Reymond Marcus
  • Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus (1901–1990) from Germany, Brazil
  • Jan Marcus (Jacob) (1702–1750) Netherlands
  • Patrick Marshall (1869–1950) New Zealand, geologist
  • Eduard von Martens
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Martini
  • Thomas Martyn
  • J. C. McConnell
  • James Hamilton McLean
  • Albert Raymond Mead (1915–2009) US, malacologist, specialist in Achatinidae
  • Karl Theodor Menke
  • Artie L. Metcalf (1929–2016)
  • Friedrich Christian Meuschen
  • Louis André Gaspard Michaud (1795–1880) France, malacologist, also known as Gaspard Michaud and as A. L. G. Michaud
  • Jesse Wedgwood Mighels (1795–1861) US
  • Pierre-Aimé Millet (1783–1873) France
  • Adolph Modéer
  • Otto Franz von Möllendorff (1848–1903) Germany, malacologist
  • Tommaso di Maria Allery Monterosato (1841–1927) Italy
  • John Edmund Sharrock Moore (1870–1947) England
  • Otto Andreas Lowson Mörch (1828–1878) Sweden, Denmark, France
  • E. S. Morse
  • Johann Rudolf Albert Mousson (1805–1890) France, Switzerland
  • Robert C. Murdoch
  • N

  • Adolf Naef
  • Wesley Newcomb (1818–1892) US
  • Carlos Núñez Cortés (born 1942) Argentina
  • O

  • Charles Henry O'Donoghue (1885–1961) England
  • Nils Hjalmar Odhner (1884–1973) Sweden
  • William Erwood Old, Jr.
  • Arthur Peter Hoblyn Oliver (1918–1984) UK
  • Walter Reginald Brook Oliver (1883–1957) Australia, New Zealand
  • Alcide d'Orbigny
  • Arnold Edward Ortmann
  • A. B. Odaibo the first university in Nigeria, University of Ibadan
  • P

  • J.J.I. Alcide de Paladilhe France
  • Somsak Panha Thailand
  • Juan José Parodiz (1911–2007) Argentina-born US, malacologist at Carnegie Museum of Natural History
  • Somnuek Patamakanthin Thailand, father of Somwang Patamakanthin
  • Somwang Patamakanthin (born 1976) Thailand, son of Somnuek Patamakanthin
  • Katherine Evangeline Hilton Van Winkle Palmer (1895–1982) US, Tertiary molluscs, portrait
  • William Harper Pease
  • Paul Pelseneer (1863–1945) Belgium
  • Anselm Peñas (1943-) Spain, malacologist
  • George Perry (naturalist) (born 1771) UK, naturalist and malacologist
  • Richard Eugene Petit (1931–2013) US, malacologist at the Smithsonian
  • Sauveur Abel Aubert Petit de la Saussaye (1792–1870) France
  • Edward J. Petuch (born 1949) US, paleontologist with malacological interests
  • Georg Johann Pfeffer (1854–1931) Germany, zoologist
  • Carl Pfeiffer (malacologist) (died 1852) Germany, malacologist
  • Carl Jonas Pfeiffer (1779–1836) Germany, malacologist, uncle of Louis Pfeiffer
  • Ludwig Karl Georg Pfeiffer (1805–1877) Germany, physician, botanist and conchologist
  • Rafael Picardal (born 1981), Philippines, malacologist, Palawan malacofauna
  • Henry Augustus Pilsbry (1862–1957)
  • István Pintér (1911–1998) Hungary
  • László Ernö Pintér (1942–2002) Hungary
  • Elwood Pleas (1809–1897) US, newspaperman and malacologist
  • Carlo Pollonera (1849–1923) Italy
  • Winston Ponder
  • Guido Poppe
  • Valéry Louis Victor Potiez (1806–1870) France
  • Arthur William Baden Powell
  • Hugh Berthon Preston (1871–1945)
  • Temple Prime (1832–1903)
  • Alice Pruvot-Fol
  • Q

  • Jean René Constant Quoy (1790–1869)
  • R

  • Lewis Radcliffe
  • Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
  • Constant A. Récluz (1797–1873) France
  • Lovell Augustus Reeve
  • Harald Alfred Rehder (1907–1996) US
  • Lois Corea Rehder (1911–1988) US, spouse of Harald Alfred Rehder
  • Otto von Retowski (1849–1925) Poland, Russia
  • Gotthard Richter - from Senckenberg Museum Frankfurt am Main, Germany (retired in 1990). Interested in pelagic gastropods.
  • Hendrik van Rijgersma
  • Antoine Risso (1777–1845) France, naturalist
  • Robert Robertson (1934–c. 2000s) UK, US
  • Guy Coburn Robson
  • Jean-Pierre Rocroi
  • Peter Friedrich Röding
  • Thomas Rogers (biologist) (1827–1901) Great Britain [4]
  • Emilio Rolán Spain, father (born 1935) is Emilio Rolán Mosquera, son (born 1965) is Emilio Alvarez Rolán, both malacologists
  • Caroline E. Rooney
  • Landon Timmonds Ross, Jr.
  • Gary Rosenberg (born 1959) US
  • Norman W. Runham (1935–1998) Wales, University College of North Wales, Bangor
  • William B. Rudman
  • John Ruskin
  • Vasiliy E. Ruzhentsev
  • S

  • Luitfried von Salvini-Plawen (1939–2014) Austria
  • Georg Ossian Sars (1837–1927) Norway, marine and freshwater biologist
  • Madoka Sasaki (died 1927) Japan, works about Cephalopoda
  • Takenori Sasaki (fl. 20th century) Japan, malacologist from the University Museum, the University of Tokyo. http://www.um.u-tokyo.ac.jp/hp/sasaki/
  • Thomas Say
  • Christoffer Schander (1960–2012) Sweden, Director of University Museum of Bergen, Norway
  • Mattheus Marinus Schepman (1847–1919) Netherlands
  • Otto Heinrich Schindewolf (1896–1971) Germany, evolution of cephalopods
  • Hartwig Schütt (1923–2009) Germany, expert in land snails of Turkey
  • Gustav Schwartz (1809-1890) Austria
  • Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher
  • Revett Sheppard
  • Bohumil Shimek
  • Robert James Shuttleworth (1810–1874) Great Britain, Switzerland
  • Charles Torrey Simpson
  • Heinrich Simroth
  • Claude Sionnest
  • Antoni Ślósarski (1843–1897) Poland [5], pl:Antoni Ślósarski
  • Allen K. Smith (fl. 20th century) US
  • Allyn Goodwin Smith (1893–1976) US
  • Annie Mills Smith (born 1897) US
  • Arthur Donaldson Smith (1864–1939) UK
  • Brian John Smith (1939–2006) UK, Australia
  • Burnett Smith (1877–1958) US
  • Charles Smith (topographer) (c. 1715–1762) Ireland
  • Colleen M. Smith (born 1919) US
  • Diderick SmithGermany, Netherlands
  • Doris Amelia Smith (1908–1992) South Africa
  • Douglas G. Smith (born 1945) US
  • Edgar Albert Smith (1847–1916) UK, zoologist
  • Edmund Hobart Smith (born 1935) US
  • Egbert T. Smith (died c. 1973) US
  • Elsie C. Smith (fl. 20th century)
  • Emily Williams Smith (1908–1978) US
  • Eric Richard Anthony Smith (born 1953) US
  • Ernest Rice Smith (1891–1952) US
  • Eugene Allen Smith (1841–1927) US, malacologist
  • Francis A. Smith (died 1983) US
  • Harlan Ingersoll Smith (1872–1940) US, Canada
  • Harry M. Smith (died c. 1974)US
  • Herbert Huntington Smith (1851–1919) US
  • Illene Harper Smith (born 1905) US
  • James Smith (1782–1867) UK
  • James Edward Smith (1759–1828) UK
  • James Perrin Smith (1864–1931) US
  • Judith Terry Smith (born 1940) US
  • Julian Smith (c. 1920–c. 2000s) US
  • Lillian Cassat Smith (1900–1971) US
  • Lourens Johannes Smith (died 2003) South Africa
  • Maxwell Smith (1888–1961) US
  • Mrs. Maxwell Smith (died c. 1946) US
  • Michael Dillon Smith (born 1938) US
  • Muriel F. I. Smith (fl. 20th century) Canada
  • Ralph Ingram Smith (1916–1993) US
  • Ray Fred Smith (born 1919) US
  • Sanderson Smith (1832–1915) UK/US
  • Shelagh M. Smith (fl. 20th century) UK
  • Sidney Irving Smith (1843–1926) US, brother-in-law of A. E. Verrill
  • Terry Smith (died 1979) US
  • Uselma C. Smith (1841–1902) US
  • Vivienne Smith US
  • Walter L. Smith (born 1918) US
  • William Smith (geologist) (1769–1839) UK
  • William A. Smith (died c. 1964) US
  • William Walter Smith (1852–1942) New Zealand
  • Alan Solem, full name George Alan Solem (1931–1990) US, curator of invertebrates in Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
  • Bibliography

  • Árpád Soós (1912–1991) Hungary, son of Lajos Soós
  • Lajos Soós (1879–1972) Hungary
  • Louis François Auguste Souleyet (1811–1852) France
  • George Brettingham Sowerby I
  • George Brettingham Sowerby II
  • George Brettingham Sowerby III
  • James Sowerby
  • Gerard Spaink (1928–2005) Netherlands
  • Lorenz Spengler
  • Alexander Staikopoulos
  • Yaroslav Igorevich Starobogatov Ярослав Игоревич Старобогатов (1932–2004) Russia
  • Robert Edwards Carter Stearns (1827–1909) US – fr:Robert Edwards Carter Stearns
  • William Stimpson
  • Hermann Strebel (1834–1915) Germany, Mexico.
  • Samuel Emanuel Studer
  • Rudolf Sturany (1867–1935) Austria, works
  • Chirasak Sutcharit Thailand
  • Henry Suter
  • William John Swainson
  • Ernest Ruthven Sykes (1867–1954) Great Britain
  • T

  • Cesare Maria Tapparone-Canefri (1838–1891) Italy
  • Dwight Willard Taylor (1932–2006) US, also paleontologist, Hydrobiidae and Physidae
  • Johan Jacob Tesch (1877–1954) Netherlands
  • Pieter Tesch nl:Pieter Tesch (1879–1961) Netherlands, brother of Johan Jacob Tesch
  • William Theobald
  • Johannes Thiele (1860–1935) Germany
  • Fred G. Thompson US, at the Florida Museum of Natural History [6]
  • Thomas Everett Thompson (1933–1990) England
  • John Read le Brockton Tomlin
  • Franz Hermann Troschel
  • George Washington Tryon
  • Ruth Turner (full name Ruth Dixon Turner) (1915–2000) US
  • William Turton (1762–1835), UK, naturalist
  • U

  • William Irvin Utterback (1872–1949) US, author of the The Naiades of Missouri (1916), portrait in 1901, portrait
  • V

  • József Vágvölgyi, Hungarian malacologist, discoverer of Lonesome George, the last Pinta Island tortoise
  • Ángel Váldes
  • Albert Jean Baptiste Marie Vayssière (1854–1942) France, malacologist and entomologist [7]
  • Bernard Verdcourt
  • Geerat J. Vermeij
  • Addison Emery Verrill (1839–1926) US, zoologist, authority on the living cephalopods, especially the colossal squids of the North Atlantic
  • Chavalit Vidthayanon (born 1959) Thailand
  • Haris Vlavianos
  • Emily H. Vokes American malacologist and paleontologist (1930- )
  • Harold E. Vokes American malacologist (1908–1998)
  • W

  • Antoni Józef Wagner (1860–1928) Poland, Austria
  • Carroll Marshall Wagner US
  • Frances Eleanor Wagner (born 1916) US
  • Frances Joan Estelle Wagner (born 1927) Canada
  • Genevieve Wagner (died 1979) US, 1st spouse of
  • János Wagner (1906–1948) Hungary
  • Johann Andreas Wagner (1797–1861) Germany
  • Johann Jacob Wagner (1641–1695) Germany
  • Robert Jacob Lewis Wagner (1905–1992) US
  • Rudolph Wagner (1805–1864) Germany
  • W. M. Wagner (1926–1991) Netherlands
  • William Wagner (zoologist) (1796–1885) US
  • Bryant Walker (1856–1936) US (works) note: a few other malacologists/biologists are also named Walker
  • Robert Boog Watson (1823–1910) Scotland
  • Reverend William Henry Webster (died 1931) Wauiku, New Zealand (his articles)
  • Fred Ethan Wells Jr. (1946 - ) U.S.A./Australia
  • Wilhelm August Wenz (1886–1945) Germany
  • Carl Agardh Westerlund (1831–1908) Sweden
  • Wolfgang Karl Weyrauch (1907–1970) South America, freshwater gastropods and land gastropods
  • Gilbert Percy Whitley (1903–1975) Great Britain, lived in Australia
  • Carl Arend Friedrich Wiegmann (1836–1901) Germany
  • Thomas Vernon Wollaston (1822–1878) Great Britain
  • Martha Burton Woodhead Williamson (1843–1922)
  • Bernard Barham Woodward (1853–1930) Great Britain
  • Charles B. Wurtz (1916–1982) US portrait
  • Z

  • Adolf Michael Zilch (1911–2006) Germany
  • Guoyi Zhang (born 1999) mainland China
  • References

    List of malacologists Wikipedia


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