Vasiliy Lindholm

Vasiliy Adolfovich Lindholm (Russian: Bасилий Aдольфович Линдгольм; 1874 – 17 September 1935), also published as Wilhelm Adolf Lindholm, was a Russian malacologist and herpetologist.

Lindholm was a curator at the Zoological Museum of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Leningrad. He published works on the molluscs of Lake Baikal, the Crimea, the Caucasus and other parts of the U.S.S.R., and on Palaearctic molluscs generally.^[1] He also studied amphibians and reptiles, and described three new species of reptiles.^[2] A frog Afrixalus lindholmi is named for him, sometimes known as Lindholm's banana frog.^[3]

References

1. Anonymous (1936). "Notes and News, Wilhelm A. Lindholm, 1874–1935". The Nautilus 50 (2): 69.
2. "Lindholm". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
3. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael & Grayson, Michael (2013). The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians. Pelagic Publishing. p. 126. ISBN 978-1-907807-42-8.

External links

• Vinarski, M. V. "WA Lindholm: A bibliography of his malacological publications with the catalogue of molluscan taxa described by him or named in his honour." Труды Зоологического института РАН 323.3 (2019): 187-213.