William Rune Liltved

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William Rune Liltved (born 1960) is a South African malacologist and botanist.

Liltved completed high school 1979 at St George's Grammar School and was employed by South African Museum, Cape Town. [1] He studied marine molluscs at California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. His career has taken him to study molluscs in tropical South Pacific, New Zealand, Australia, the Caribbean and Mediterranean sea, Californian west coast and gulf of California, Gough Island and Tristan da Cunha, and extensively off southern Africa. [1]

The standard author abbreviation Liltved is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name . [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 Liltved, W.R., Cowries and their relatives of Southern Africa: A study of the southern African Cypraeacean and Velutinacean gastropod fauna, Gordon Verhoef, Seacomber publications, Cape Town, 1989. ISBN   0908420897
  2. International Plant Names Index.  Liltved.