Heinrich Simroth

Who was Heinrich Simroth?

Prof. Dr. phil. Heinrich Simroth, full name Heinrich Rudolf Simroth, was a German zoologist and malacologist. He was a professor of zoology in Leipzig.

Academic career: 1888–1917 University of Leipzig.

He was a specialist for slugs. He discovered and described various new species of slugs.

Species of animals named in honor of him include:

Bulimulus simrothi – snail

Pseudaneitea simrothi – slug

Arion simrothi - slug

Tapinoma simrothi Krausse, 1911 - ant

Bipalium simrothi - planarian

It was thought that there is no collection by Simroth. His collection of type specimen of 43 slugs has been found Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin in 2010.