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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. David R. Lindberg
(1948, U.S.A.) is an American malacologist and professor of integrative
biology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the
Curator for the University of California Museum of Paleontology and
co-editor of the journal Molecular Systematics and Phylogeography of
Mollusks. Much of his work has focused on sea snails, specifically on
limpets, on the phylogeny of the Patellogastropoda, and various other
gastropod groups.Lindberg renamed the order Docoglossa to
Patellogastropoda in 1986. He is also notable for naming the subclass
Eogastropoda, and proposing that the taxonomy of the Gastropoda be
rewritten in terms of strictly monophyletic groups.