Wolfgang Karl Weyrauch

Wolfgang Karl Weyrauch (1907 - 1970) was a German - Peruvian malacologist and entomologist.

Walter received his Zoology doctorate in 1929 in Berlin.

In 1938 he worked as an entomologist at the agricultural experimental station (Estación Agrícola de La Molina) in Lima.At the time of the second world war he moved to Texas where he did field work in entomology and malacology.. In 1946 he was at the Estación experimental Agrícola de Tingo María in Lima. From 1948 he worked for the Universidad Mayor de San Marcos in Lima as a Professor of zoology and Genetics at the Museo Nacional de Historia. In addition, he was from 1959 to 1961 Professor of agricultural zoology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Lima. in 1962, he went to Argentina and became professor at the Instituto Miguel Lillo in Tucumán. He died of a heart attack.

Wolfgang Karl Weyrauch (1907–1970) studied land and freshwater gastropods of South America, mainly taxa belonging to the families Camaenidae, Charopidae, Clausiliidae, Endodontidae, Helicinidae, “Hydrobiidae”, Orthalicidae, Pupillidae, Scolodontidae, Subulinidae, and Urocoptidae. He left behind many type specimens in museums, of which he published no original description. He was the author of 198 molluscan names.

Works

Many papers in Archiv für Molluskenkunde A list is given by Barbosa et al.[1]

References

  1. ↑ André F. Barbosa, Valdemar K. Delhey, and Eugene V. Coan Molluscan Names And Malacological Contributions Of Wolfgang Karl Weyrauch (1907–1970) With A Brief Biography Malacologia Jan 2008 : Vol. 50, Issue 1, pg(s) 265-277 doi: 10.4002/0076-2997-50.1.265


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