Alan Solem

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Alan Solem
Born
George Alan Solem

(1931-06-21)June 21, 1931
DiedMarch 26, 1990(1990-03-26) (aged 58)
NationalityAmerican
Known forOne of the most renowned land snail experts of his time
Scientific career
FieldsMalacology
Author abbrev. (zoology)Solem

George Alan Solem (21 June 1931 – 26 March 1990),

mollusks
.

He was one of the most renowned land snail experts of his time and had earned a reputation for his comprehensive revisions of mainly terrestrial

Pacific Islands. His 140 academic papers dealt with the snail phylogeny, feeding patterns and reproductive strategies.[3]

He named many

taxa, amongst them about 350 species of Australian land snails, and several genera.[4]
Some species named by him are:

Taxa described by Solem

Bibliography

  • Solem, A. 1955. Mexican molluscs collected for Dr. Bryant Walker in 1926. XI. Drymaeus. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 566: 1–20 pp., pl. 21–25.
  • Solem, A. 1956. The helicoid cyclophorid mollusks of Mexico. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 108: 41-59, pl. 45, 46.
  • Solem, A. 1957. Philippine Zoological Expedition 1946-1947. Philippine snails of the family Endodontidae. Fieldiana Zoology 41: 1-12.
  • Solem, A. 1958. Endodontide Landschnecken von Indonesien und Neu Guinea. Archiv für Molluskenkunde 87: 19-26.
  • Solem, A. 1959. Notes on Mexican mollusks. II. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 611: 15 pp.
  • Solem, A. 1961. New Caledonian land and fresh-water snails. An annotated check list. Fieldiana: Zoology 41(3): 415–501.
  • Laidlaw, F.F., Solem, A. 1961. The land snail genus Amphidromus. A syntopic catalogue. Fieldiana Zoology 41: 506-677.
  • Solem, A. 1964. A collection of non-marine molluscs from Sabah. Sabah Society Journal 11: 1-40.
  • Solem, A. 1966. Some non-marine mollusks from Thailand, with notes on classification of the Helicarionidae. Spolia Zoologica Musei Hauniensis 24: 1-110.
  • Solem, A. 1968. "Ptychodon" misoolensis Adam and Van Benthem Jutting, 1939, A New Guinea Strobilopsis land snail and review of the genus Enteroplax. Veliger 11: 24-30.
  • Solem, A. 1974. The shell makers: introducing mollusks. New York: John Wiley & Sons. xiv + 289 pp.
  • Solem, A. 1975. Notes on Salmon River oreohelicid land snails, with description of Oreohelix waltoni. The Veliger 18(1): 16-30.
  • Solem, A. 1975. Polygyriscus virginianus (Burch, 1947) a helicodiscid land snail (Pulmonata: Helicodiscidae). The Nautilus 89(3): 80–86.
  • Solem, A. 1976. Comments on eastern North American Polygyridae. The Nautilus 90(1): 25-36.
  • Solem, A. 1976. Endodontoid land snails from Pacific islands (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Sigmurethra). Part I, Family Endodontidae. Chicago, Illinois: Field Museum of Natural History. i-xii, 1-508 pp.
  • Solem, A. 1976. Species criteria in Anguispira (Anguispira) (Pulmonata: Discidae). The Nautilus 90(1): 15–23.
  • Solem, A. 1977. Radiodiscus hubrichti Branson, 1975, a synonym of Striatura pugetensis (Dall, 1895) (Pulmonata: Zonitidae). The Nautilus 91(4): 146-148.
  • Solem, A. 1977. Shell microsculpture in Striatura, Punctum, Radiodiscus, and Planogyra (Pulmonata). The Nautilus 91(4): 149-155.
  • Solem, A. 1978. Cretaceous and Early Tertiary camaenid land snails from Western North America (Mollusca: Pulmonata). Journal of Paleontology 52: 581-589.
  • Solem, A., Yochelson, E.L. 1979. North American Palaeozoic land snails, with a summary of other Palaeozoic non-marine snails. United States Geological Survey, Professional Paper 1072: 1-42.
  • Solem, A. 1979. "Some mollusks from Afghanistan".
    Fieldiana Zoology
     new series 1: 1-89.
  • Solem, A. 1979. Camaenid land snails from Western and central Australia (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Camaenidae). I. Taxa with trans-Australian distribution. Records of the Western Australian Museum Suppl. 10: 5-142.
  • Solem, A., van der Spoel, S. Van Bruggen, A.C., Lever, J. 1979. A theory of land snail biogeographic patterns through time. In: Pathways in Malacology. Utrecht: Scheltema & Holkema.
  • Solem, A. 1981. Camaenid land snails from Western and central Australia (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Camaenidae). II. Taxa from the Kimberley, Amplirhagada Iredale 1933. Records of the Western Australian Museum Suppl. 11: 147-320.
  • Solem, A. 1981. Camaenid land snails from Western and central Australia (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Camaenidae). III. Taxa from the Ningbing Ranges and nearby areas. Records of the Western Australian Museum Suppl. 11: 321-425.
  • Solem, A., W.K. Emerson, B. Roth and F.G. Thompson. 1981. Standards for malacological collections. Curator 24(1): 19-28.
  • Solem A. (7 January 1983) "Endodontoid land snails from Pacific Islands (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Sigmurethra). Part II. Families Punctidae and Charopidae, Zoogeography". Fieldiana Zoology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, ISSN 0015-0754.
  • Solem, A., Tillier, A., Mordan, P. 1984. Pseudo-operculate pulmonate land snails from New Caledonia. Veliger 27: 193-199.
  • Solem, A., Christensen, C. 1984. Camaenid land snail reproductive cycle and growth patterns in semiarid area of north-western Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 32: 471-491.
  • Solem, A. 1984. Camaenid land snails from Western and central Australia (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Camaenidae). IV. Taxa from the Kimberley, Westraltrachia Iredale, 1933 and related genera. Records of the Western Australian Museum Suppl. 17: 427-705.
  • Solem, A. 1985. Simultaneous character convergence and divergence in Western Australian land snails. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 24: 143-136.
  • Solem, A. 1985. Camaenid land snails from Western and central Australia (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Camaenidae). V. Remaining Kimberley genera and addenda to the Kimberley. Records of the Western Australian Museum Suppl. 20: 707-981.
  • Solem, A. 1988. New camaenid land snails from the northeast Kimberley, Western Australia. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 9: 27-58.
  • Solem, A. 1988. Maximum in the minimum: Biogeography of land snails from the Ningbing Ranges and Jeremiah Hills, northeast Kimberley, Western Australia. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 9: 59-113.
  • Solem, A. 1989. Non-camaenid land snails of the Kimberley and Northern Territory, Australia. I. Affinities and ranges. Invertebrate Taxonomy 2: 455-604.
  • Solem, A. 1991. Land snails of Kimberley rainforest patches and biogeography of all Kimberley landsnails. In: McKenzie, N.L., Johnston, R.B., Kendrick, P.G. (eds), Kimberley rainforests of Australia. Canberra: Surrey Beatty & Sons and Department of Conservation and Land Management Western Australia.
  • Solem, A., McKenzie, N.L, 1991. The composition of land snail assemblages in Kimberley rainforests. In: McKenzie, N.L., Johnston, R.B., Kendrick, P.G. (eds), Kimberley rainforests of Australia. Canberra: Surrey Beatty & Sons and Department of Conservation and Land Management Western Australia.
  • Solem, A. 1991. The next challenge: Life styles and evolution. American Malacological Bulletin 8(2): 173-175.
  • Solem, A. 1992. Camaenid land snails from southern and eastern Australia, excluding Kangaroo Island. Records of the South Australian Museum, Monogr.Ser. 2: 1-425.
  • Solem, A. 1993. Camaenid land snails from Western and central Australia (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Camaenidae). VI. Taxa from the Red Centre. Records of the Western Australian Museum Suppl. 43: 983-1489.
  • Solem, A. 1997. Camaenid land snails from Western and central Australia (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Camaenidae). VII. Taxa from Dampierland through the Nullabor. Records of the Western Australian Museum Suppl. 50: 1461-1906.
  • Solem, A. 1998. Family Camaenidae. In: Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B., Wells, A. (eds), Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing.

References

  1. ^ van Bruggen A. C. (1990). "Obituary – G. Alan Solem, 21.VI.1931 – 26.III.1990". Basteria 54(1-3): 151-154.
  2. ^ Coan E. V., Kabat A. R. & Petit R. E. (2009). 2,400 years of malacology, 6th ed., February 15, 2009, 830 pp. + 32 pp. [Annex of Collations]. American Malacological Society: http://www.malacological.org/publications/2400_malacology.html Archived 2018-10-05 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Invertebrates - Research". Field Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
  4. ^ Cameron, R. A. D., B. M. Pokryszko, and F. E. Wells. 2005. Alan Solem's work on the diversity of Australasian land snails: an unfinished project of global significance. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 68:1-10.

Further reading

(chronologically)

  • Williams P. (1978). "Solem and snails". Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin 49(10): 16-19.
  • Backhuys W. (1990). "Obituary: Alan George [sic] Solem (1931–1990)". The Papustyla, Manus Landsnail Society, April 1990: 1.
  • Ponder W. F. & Stanisic J. (1990). "Obituary – G. Alan Solem". Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 11: 1-7.
  • Raeihle D. (1990). "George Alan Solem". New York Shell Club Notes 315: 2-3.
  • Scheu L. & Goldberg R. L. (1990). "Alan Solem and the shell makers". American Conchologist September 1990: 9-11.
  • Wenzel R. L. (1990). "G. Alan Solem, 1931- 1990". Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin 61(3): 8-10.
  • Colman P. (1990). "Vale Alan Solem 21 July 1931 – 27 February 1990". Australian Shell News 70: 5.
  • Girardi E.-L. (1991). "A bibliography and brief biography of G. Alan Solem 1931- 1990". The Veliger 34(4): 317-323
  • Wells F. (1996). "Alan Solem honoured". Australian Shell News 93: 3.

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