Peter Friedrich Röding

Peter Friedrich Röding (1767-1846) was a German malacologist. Very little is known about this naturalist who lived in Hamburg. He was the principle author of a 1798 catalogue of an important mollusc collection. This was entitled "Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae. Pars secunda contens Conchylia…"and was publihed in Hamburg. It is a sale catalogue and was ignored until William Healey Dall recognized that it introduced new valid taxa, though with long names and short descriptions.So Röding is credited with many names of his own.His other descriptions (often simply a German rendition of the Latin binomial name) are of the species of earlier authors such as Johann Hieronymus Chemnitz, Friedrich Wilhelm Martini, Martin Lister but with references to existing descriptions and figures making these names also valid, since they are unequivocally recognizable, and were after Röding adopted by many later authors.

"Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus....." is a rare book.

External links

* [http://users.swing.be/sw216502/s-dictio-Roding.html Dictionnaire de malacologie de la Société belge de malacologie (in French)]