David Lindberg

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David R. Lindberg is an American malacologist and professor of integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley. Much of his work has focused on the phylogeny of the Patellogastropoda, and various other gastropod groups. Lindberg named the renamed the order Docoglossa to Patellogastropoda in 1986.<ref>D.R. Lindberg, 1986. "Radular evolution in the Patellogastropoda". American Malacological Bulletin</ref> 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. <ref> W.F. Ponder and D.L. Lindberg, 1997. "Towards a phylogeny of gastropod molluscs: An analysis using morphological data" Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society</ref>