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Malacology

Academic Supervision

Dissertations

  • Helmkampf, M. 2009. Molecular phylogenetic analyses of Bryozoa, Brachiopoda, and Phoronida.
  • Sauer, J. 2010. Systematics and Evolution of the Helicellinae (Gastropoda: Helicoidea) from Crete, particularly the Xerocrassa radiation.
  • Nesnidal, M. 2013. Phylogenomic analyses of the relationships of Lophophorata and Myxozoa – two enigmatic metazoan phyla.
  • Neiber, M. T. 2016. Phylogenetic and phylogeographic studies on selected Palaearctic land snails (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora), with a special focus on the Caucasus region.
  • Walther, F. Laufend. Systematics and biogeography of land molluscs of the Caucasus region.
  • Nurinsiyah, A. S. Laufend. Systematics and biogeography of land snails of Java.
  • Hessmann, A. Laufend. Diversity of rhytitid land snails of New Caledonia.

 

Master theses

  • Scheel, B. 2013. Evolution of mitochondrial ribosomal proteins in Holozoa.
  • Koch, E. L. 2014. Phylogenetic analysis of the Alopia taxa (Gastropoda: Clausiliidae) of the Bucegi mountains in Romania and evolutionary effects of left-right reversal.
  • Nägele, K.-L. 2014. Speciation and comparative phylogeography of two groups of southern alpine land snails Clausilia (Strobeliella) NORDSIECK 1977 (Clausilidae, Gastropoda) and Cochlostoma porroi (STROBEL 1850) (Cochlostomatidae, Gastropoda).
  • Hessmann, A. 2015. Reevaluation of Ouagapia and Ptychorhytida (Gastropoda: Rhytididae) from New Caledonia based on a redescription of their type species.

 

Bachelor theses

  • Scheel, B. 2011. Genetic differentiation of populations of the land snail Charpentieria itala (Martens, 1824) (Gastropoda: Clausiliidae) in the Southern Alps.
  • Boxnick, A. 2014. Terrestrial mollusc fauna of Nyungwe Forest National Park in Rwanda: diversity, distribution and ecology.
  • Henke-von der Malsburg, J. 2014. Populationsgenetik des Graubraunen Mausmakis (Microcebus griseorufus) im Nationalpark Tsimanampetsotsa, Madagaskar. 
  • Wendebourg, B. Laufend. Diversity and structure of land snail communities in the nature reserve Panguana in Peru.
  • Kronschnabel, A. Laufend. Systematics of urocyclid semislugs from Central Africa.