Victor Sterki

Victor Sterki
Born	1846 Solothurn, Switzerland
Died	1933 (aged 86–87)
Alma mater	University of Bern and Munich University[1]
Known for	Research in Pupillidae and in Sphaeriidae[1]
Scientific career
Fields	malacology

Victor Sterki (September 26, 1846 in Solothurn, Switzerland – January 25, 1933 in New Philadelphia, OH)[1] was a malacologist from Switzerland who lived in the United States.[2]

He worked as an assistant in the Section of Invertebrates in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History from 1909 to 1933.[1]

Malacological collections by Sterki of Pupillidae have 4000 lots and of Sphaeriidae have 12,000 lots.[1] Both collections are deposited in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.[1]

The malacological journal Sterkiana and the land snail species Guppya sterkii were named after him.[3][4]

References

1. "Victor Sterki" Archived 2011-09-27 at the Wayback Machine. Carnegie Museum of Natural History, accessed 23 April 2011.
2. Coan E. V., Kabat A. R. & Petit R. E. (15 February 2011). 2,400 years of malacology, 8th ed. Archived 2012-11-11 at the Wayback Machine, 936 pp. + 42 pp. [Annex of Collations]. American Malacological Society
3. Victor Sterki
4. Pilsbry H. A. (1946). Land Mollusca of North America (north of Mexico), vol. II part 1, 1946, pg. 246.