Name Stefan Clessin | Died 1911 | |
Stefan Clessin (13 November 1833, Würzburg – 21 December 1911, Regensburg) was a German malacologist.
He served as a military officer, and from 1862 worked for the Bavarian railways. He was an editor of the Malakozoologische Blätter and made major contributions to Martini and Chemitz' Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet. He conducted research of fossil mollusks as well as living species.
Taxa described
Clessin named more than 90 species of non-marine gastropod mollusks, including:
References
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