Spiridon Brusina Explained

Spiridon Brusina
Birth Date:	11 December 1845
Birth Place:	Zara, Kingdom of Dalmatia, Austrian Empire
Death Place:	Zagreb, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary
Nationality:	Croatian
Fields:	malacology

Spiridon Brusina (11 December 1845 – 21 May 1909)^[1] was a Croatian malacologist.^[2]

Together with Oton Kučera and Gjuro Pilar, he founded the Croatian Society of Natural Sciences in Zagreb in the late 1885.

Taxa described

• Drobacia Brusina, 1904
• Emmericia Brusina, 1870
• Erjavecia Brusina, 1870
• Manzonia Brusina, 1870
• Spelaeodiscus Brusina, 1886
• Vidovicia Brusina, 1904
• Trochulus erjaveci (Brusina, 1870)

Bibliography

• • Brusina S. (1865). "Conchiglie Dalmate Inedite", Wien
  • Brusina S. (1866). "Contribuzione pella fauna dei molluschi Dalmati". Wien
  • Brusina S. (1869)."Gasteropodes noveaux de l'Adriatique" in J. de Conchyl. XVII
  • Brusina S. (1870)."Principi Malacologici", Zagreb
  • Brusina S. (1870). Ipsa Chierrenghinii Conchiglie, Pisa
  • Brusina S. (1870). "Saggio della Malacologia Adriatica" in Boll. Soc. Malac. Ital. VI
  • Brusina S. (1870). "Monographie der Gattungen Emmericia und Fossarulus". Verhandlungen der kaiserlich-königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 20: 925–938.
  • Brusina S. (1872). "Saggio secundo della Malacologia Adriatica", Ebenda
  • Brusina S. (1886). "Ueber die Mollusken-Fauna Oesterreich-Ungarns". Mittheilungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins für Steiermark 22(1885): 29–56. Graz.
  • Brusina S. (1904). "Zur Rettung unserer Mollusken-Fauna". Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 36: 157-168.

Notes and References

1. Hesse P. (1910). "Necrologie". Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 42(2): page 85-86.
2. Coan E. V., Kabat A. R. & Petit R. E. (15 February 2011). 2,400 years of malacology, 8th ed., 936 pp. + 42 pp. [Annex of Collations]. American Malacological Society. (Listed as Špiridion Brusina with dates 1845-1908.)