nationality fields workplaces birth_date article_title name
usa malacology university of california , berkeley 1948 david r. lindberg
 david r. lindberg
david r. lindberg

david r. lindberg -lrb- 1948 , u.s.a. -rrb- is an american malacologist and professor of integrative biology at the university of california , berkeley .
he is also the curator for the university of california museum of paleontology and co-editor of the journal `` molecular systematics and phylogeography of mollusks '' .
much of his work has focused on sea snails , specifically on limpets , on the phylogeny of the patellogastropoda , and various other gastropod groups .
lindberg renamed the order docoglossa to patellogastropoda in 1986 .
he is also notable for naming the subclass eogastropoda , and proposing that the taxonomy of the gastropoda be rewritten in terms of strictly monophyletic groups .
