Victor Sterki (26 September 1846 in Solothurn, Switzerland – 25 January 1933 in New Philadelphia, OH)"Victor Sterki" . Carnegie Museum of Natural History, accessed 23 April 2011. was a malacologist from Switzerland who lived in the United States.Coan E. V., Kabat A. R. & Petit R. E. (15 February 2011). 2,400 years of malacology, 8th ed. , 936 pp. + 42 pp. [Annex of Collations]. American Malacological Society
He worked as an assistant in the Section of Invertebrates in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History from 1909 to 1933.
Malacological collections by Sterki of Pupillidae have 4000 lots and of Sphaeriidae have 12,000 lots. Both collections are deposited in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
The malacological journal Sterkiana and the land snail species Guppya sterkii were named after him.Victor SterkiPilsbry H. A. (1946). Land Mollusca of North America (north of Mexico), vol. II part 1, 1946, pg. 246.
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