Alan Solem, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Alan Solem

American malacologist

Date of Birth: 21-Jun-1931

Date of Death: 26-Mar-1990

Profession: zoologist, malacologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

George Alan Solem (21 June 1931 – 26 March 1990), known professionally as Alan Solem, was an American malacologist, a biologist who studied 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 pulmonates.
He worked on land snails from all regions of the world but became particularly known for his revisions of land snails from Australasia and various Pacific Islands. He named many taxa, amongst them about 350 species of Australian land snails, and several genera.
Some species named by him are: Ba humbugi Solem, 1983 — a species of Fijian land snail Hadra wilsoni Solem, 1979 - a species of Western Australian land snail Glyptorhagada janaslini Solem, 1992 - a species of land snail