Spiridon Brusina

Spiridon Brusina (11 December 1845 – 21 May 1909)^[1] was a Croatian malacologist.^[2]

Spiridon Brusina
1898 portrait of Spiridon Brusina
Born	(1845-12-11)December 11, 1845 Zara, Kingdom of Dalmatia, Austrian Empire
Died	May 21, 1909(1909-05-21) (aged 63) Zagreb, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary
Nationality	Croatian
Scientific career
Fields	malacology

Sculpture of Spiridon Brusina in Zadar

Together with Oton Kučera and Gjuro Pilar, he founded the Croatian Society of Natural Sciences in Zagreb in the late 1885.

Taxa described

• Drobacia Brusina, 1904
• Emmericia Brusina, 1870
• Erjavecia Brusina, 1870
• Manzonia Brusina, 1870
• Spelaeodiscus Brusina, 1886
• Vidovicia Brusina, 1904
• Trochulus erjaveci (Brusina, 1870)

Bibliography

• • Brusina S. (1865). "Conchiglie Dalmate Inedite", Wien
  • Brusina S. (1866). "Contribuzione pella fauna dei molluschi Dalmati". Wien
  • Brusina S. (1869)."Gasteropodes noveaux de l'Adriatique" in J. de Conchyl. XVII
  • Brusina S. (1870)."Principi Malacologici", Zagreb
  • Brusina S. (1870). Ipsa Chierrenghinii Conchiglie, Pisa
  • Brusina S. (1870). "Saggio della Malacologia Adriatica" in Boll. Soc. Malac. Ital. VI
  • Brusina S. (1870). "Monographie der Gattungen Emmericia und Fossarulus". Verhandlungen der kaiserlich-königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 20: 925–938.
  • Brusina S. (1872). "Saggio secundo della Malacologia Adriatica", Ebenda
  • Brusina S. (1886). "Ueber die Mollusken-Fauna Oesterreich-Ungarns". Mittheilungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins für Steiermark 22(1885): 29–56. Graz.
  • Brusina S. (1904). "Zur Rettung unserer Mollusken-Fauna". Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 36: 157-168.