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Alan Solem

April 11, 2024

George Alan Solem (21 June 1931 – 26 March 1990),[1][2] known professionally as Alan Solem, was an American malacologist, a biologist who studied mollusks.

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

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. 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 edit

Bibliography edit

  • 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 edit

  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 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 edit

(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.

External links edit

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George Alan Solem 21 June 1931 26 March 1990 1 2 known professionally as Alan Solem was an American malacologist a biologist who studied mollusks Alan SolemBornGeorge Alan Solem 1931 06 21 June 21 1931DiedMarch 26 1990 1990 03 26 aged 58 NationalityAmericanKnown forOne of the most renowned land snail experts of his timeScientific careerFieldsMalacologyAuthor abbrev zoology SolemHe 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 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 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 Aaadonta fuscozonata depressa Solem 1976Contents 1 Taxa described by Solem 2 Bibliography 3 References 4 Further reading 5 External linksTaxa described by Solem editAslintesta Solem 1992 Caperantrum Solem 1997 Carinotrachia Solem 1985 Cooperconcha Solem 1992 Cristilabrum Solem 1981 Falspleuroxia Solem 1997 Kendrickia Solem 1985 Melostrachia Solem 1979 Mesodontrachia Solem 1985 Micromelon Solem 1992 Minimelon Solem 1993 Montanomelon Solem 1993 Mouldingia Solem 1984 Ningbingia Solem 1981 Orangia Solem 1976 Ordtrachia Solem 1984 Promonturconchum Solem 1997 Prototrachia Solem 1984 Prymnbriareus Solem 1981 Pseudcupedora Solem 1992 Retroterra Solem 1985 Strepsitaurus Solem 1997 Tatemelon Solem 1993 Turgenitubulus Solem 1981 Vatusila Solem 1983Bibliography editSolem 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 fur 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 amp 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 amp 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 amp 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 amp 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 edit van Bruggen A C 1990 Obituary G Alan Solem 21 VI 1931 26 III 1990 Basteria 54 1 3 151 154 Coan E V Kabat A R amp 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 Invertebrates Research Field Museum of Natural History Retrieved 10 October 2021 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 edit 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 amp 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 amp 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 External links editWorks by or about Alan Solem at Internet Archive List of Australian land snails at Australian Faunal Directory Retrieved from https en 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