Peter Friedrich Röding
German malacologist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Peter Friedrich Röding (17 June 1767 – 8 June 1846) was a German malacologist who lived in Hamburg. Very little is known about this naturalist.
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Peter Friedrich Röding | |
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Born | Peter Friedrich Röding (1767-06-17)17 June 1767 |
Died | 8 June 1846(1846-06-08) (aged 78) |
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Fields | Malacology |
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Many of Röding's descriptions (often simply a German rendition of the Latin binomial name) are of species which were first named by earlier authors such as Johann Hieronymus Chemnitz, Friedrich Wilhelm Martini and Martin Lister. Röding's references to pre-existing descriptions and figures make these names also valid, since they are unequivocally recognizable, and were (after Röding) subsequently adopted by many later authors.