Heinrich Simroth

Heinrich Rudolf Simroth (10 May 1851 Riestedt (now a part of Sangerhausen) – 31 August 1917 Gautzsch near Leipzig), was a German zoologist and malacologist. He was a professor of zoology in Leipzig.

Academic career: 1888–1917 University of Leipzig.

He was a specialist for slugs. He discovered and described various new species of slugs.

Species of animals named in honor of him include:

• Bulimulus simrothi (Reibisch, 1892) – snail
• Pseudaneitea simrothi (Suter, 1896) – slug
• Arion simrothi - slug
• Tapinoma simrothi Krausse, 1911 - ant
• Bipalium simrothi - planarian

It was thought that there is no collection by Simroth. His collection of type specimen of 43 slugs has been found Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin in 2010.