Bruce Marshall (taxonomist)
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Bruce Anders Marshall (born 29 March 1948)[1] is a New Zealand taxonomist and malacologist. He is an expert on New Zealand mollusca[2] and has named hundreds of species and genera.[3][4][5][6][7]
He is a self-taught malacologist and started working at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in 1976.[8]
Until 2019, he was the Collection Manager of Molluscs at the Te Papa Tongarewa, where he described the largest number of new species in the history of the museum.[4][5][6]
In 2012 he was awarded a Doctor of Science degree by Victoria University of Wellington.[7] The conferment letter described him as "the leading authority on the taxonomy and systematics of living molluscs in New Zealand".[9]
In 2018 he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement award by the Malacological Society of Australasia.[7]
