Fred Gilbert Thompson

Fred Gilbert Thompson, herpetologist & malacologist.

Curator of Malacology, Department of Natural Sciences, Flolida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

14 taxon names authored by Fred Gilbert Thompson

Publications

1957

Thompson, F.G. 1957. A new Mexican gartersnake (genus Thamnophis) with notes on related forms. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 584: 1–10. hdl: 2027.42/57022 Reference page.
Thompson, F.G. 1957. A collection of land and fresh-water mollusks from Tabasco, Mexico. The Nautilus 70(3): 97–102.
Thompson, F.G. 1957. A collection of mollusks from northern Venezuela. Occasional papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 591: 1–10, 4 figs, 2 pls.

1958

Thompson, F.G. 1958. The land snail genus Microconus. The Nautilus 72(1): 5–10, pls. 1–2: 1 map.

1959

Thompson, F.G. 1959. A new Spiraxis from Guatemala. The Nautilus 72(4): 115, pl. 12, fig. 4.
Thompson, F.G. 1959. Two new pleurocerid snails from eastern Mexico. Occasional papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 600: 1–8.
Thompson, F.G. 1959. A new helicid snail from Mexico. Occasional papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 610: 1–9.

1962

Thompson, F.G. 1962. A new endodontid land snail from Guatemala. The Nautilus 76(1): 23–25, text-fig. 1.

1963

Thompson, F.G. 1963. New land snails from El Salvador. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 76: 19–32.
Thompson, F.G. 1963. Systematic notes on the land snails of the genus Tomocyclus (Cyclophoridae). Breviora 181: 1–12.
Thompson, F.G. 1963. Two Mexican species of Guillarmodia s.s. The Nautilus 76(3): 95–99, text-figs. 1–4.

1964

Thompson, F.G. 1964. A new aquatic snail of the family Amnicolidae from Costa Rica. Revista de Biología Tropical 12(1): 97–105.
Thompson, F.G. 1964. Systematic studies on Mexican land snails of the genus Holospira, subgenus Bostrichocentrum (Stylommatophora: Urocoptidae). Malacologia 2(1): 131–143.

1966

Thompson, F.G. 1966. A new pomatiasid from Chiapas, Mexico. The Nautilus 80(1): 24–28, figs. 1–5.

1967

Thompson, F.G. 1967. A new cyclophorid land snail from the West Indies (Prosobranchia), and the discussion of a new subfamily. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 80: 13–18.
Thompson, F.G. 1967. New helicid snail from Zacatecas, Mexico. The Nautilus 81(1): 22–25: 27, figs. 1–4.
Thompson, F.G. 1967. Two new species of Pachychilus from northeastern Mexico. The Nautilus 81(1): 25–31.
Thompson, F.G. 1967. The land and freshwater snails of Campeche. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum. Biological sciences 2 (4): 221–256.

1968

King, F.W. & Thompson, F.G. 1968. A review of the American lizards of the genus Xenosaurus Peters. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum 12(2): 93–123. DOI: 10.58782/flmnh.ushf5538 Reference page.
Thompson, F.G. 1968. Ceochasma, a remarkable new land snail from Colima, Mexico (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia, Helicinidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 81: 45–52.
Thompson, F.G. 1968. Two noteworthy achatinids from Panama. The Nautilus 81(3): 105.
Thompson, F.G. 1968. Some Mexican land snails of the family Urocoptidae. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum. Biological sciences 12: 125–183; fig. 1–29.
Thompson, F.G. 1968. The aquatic snails of the family Hydrobiidae of peninsular Florida. Gainesville, University of Florida Press. xv + 268 pp.

1969

Thompson, F.G. 1969. Bulimus unicolor and Bulimulus ocraspiris. The Nautilus 82(3): 106–107.
Thompson, F.G. 1969. Some Mexican and Central American land snails of the family Cyclophoridae. Zoologica; scientific contributions of the New York Zoological Society 54(2): 35–78.

1970

Thompson, F.G. 1970. Some hydrobiid snails from Georgia and Florida. Quarterly journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 32: 241–265.

1971

Thompson, F.G. 1971. Some Mexican land snails of the genera Coelostemma and Metastoma (Urocoptidae). Bulletin of the Florida State Museum. Biological sciences 15(1): 267–302.

1974

Thompson, F.G. 1974. A xeric snail from New Mexico. The Southwestern naturalist 19(1): 53–56.

1976

Thompson, F.G. & Franz, R. 1976. Some urocoptid land snails from Hispaniola. Revista de Biología Tropical 24(1): 7–33.
Thompson, F.G. 1976. The occurrence in Florida of the West Indian land snail Bulimulus guadalupensis. The Nautilus 90(1): 10.
Thompson, F.G. 1976. The genus Epirobia in Chiapas, Mexico. The Nautilus 90(1): 41–46, figs. 1–3.
Thompson, F.G. 1976. Land snails from Monito Island, West Indies. The Nautilus 90(4): 152–153.

1977

Thompson, F.G. 1977. The polygyrid genus Mcleania in Hispaniola. The Nautilus 91(3): 77–80, fig. 1.
Thompson, F.G. 1977. The hydrobiid snail genus Marstonia. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum. Biological sciences 21: 113–158.

1978

Thompson, F.G. & McCaleb, J.E. 1978. A new freshwater snail from a spring in eastern Alabama. American Midland Naturalist 100(2): 350–358.
Thompson, F.G. 1978. Two new land snails of the genus Opisthostoma from Borneo (Prosobranchia, Cyclophoroidea, Diplommatinidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 91(2): 386–391.
Thompson, F.G. 1978. A new genus of operculate land snails from Hispaniola with comments on the status of family Annulariidae. The Nautilus 92(1): 41–54, figs. 1–6.

1980

Thompson, F.G. & Deisler, J.E. 1980. The introduction of the land snail Alcadia striata (Lamarck) into Miami, Florida. The Nautilus 94(1): 3–4.
Thompson, F.G. & Lee, H.G. 1980. A new helicarionid land snail from the southeastern United States. Malacological Review 13(1-2): 37–44. Reference page.
Thompson, F.G. 1980. Proserpinoid land snails and their relationships within the Archaeogastropoda. Malacologia 20(1): 1–33.

1982

Thompson, F.G. & Deisler, J.E. 1982. A new tree snail, genus Drymaeus (Bulimulidae) from southeastern Peru. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 95: 265–268.
Thompson, F.G. 1982. A new species of Euglandina from Peru (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Spiraxidae). Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 95(4): 763–765.
Thompson, F.G. 1982. The Helicina umbonata complex in the West Indies (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia, Helicinidae). Bulletin of the Florida State Museum. Biological sciences 28(1): 1–23.

1983

Thompson, F.G. & Dance, S.P. 1983. Non-marine mollusks of Borneo. II Pulmonata: Pupillidae, Clausiliidae. III Prosobranchia: Hydrocenidae, Helicinidae. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum. Biological sciences 29(3): 101–152.
Thompson, F.G. 1983. The planorbid snail Micromenetus dilatatus avus (Pilsbry) in the West Indies and Central America. The Nautilus 97(2): 68–69.

1984

Thompson, F.G. & Auffenberg, K. 1984. Hypselostoma latispira, a new pupillid land snail from the Philippine Islands. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 97 (1): 86–89. Reference page.
Thompson, F.G. 1984. North American freshwater snail genera of the hydrobiid subfamily Lithoglyphinae. Malacologia 25(1): 109–141.

1985

Thomas, R., McDiarmid, R.W. & Thompson, F.G. 1985. Three new species of thread snakes (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae) from Hispaniola. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 98(1) 204–220. BHL; hdl: 10088/4581 Reference page.
Thompson, F.G. & Huck, E.L. 1985. The land snail family Hydrocenidae in Vanuatu (New Hebrides Islands), and comments on other Pacific islands species. The Nautilus 99(2-3): 81–84, figs. 1–9.
Thompson, F.G. 1985. Columbinia vasquezi, a new clausiliid land snail from Bolivia. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 98(4): 768–773.

1987

Thompson, F.G. & Iliffe, T.M. 1987. Two new operculate land snails from the Palau Archipelago. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 100(3): 447–451. Reference page.
Thompson, F.G. 1987. Giant carnivorous land snails from Mexico and Central America. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum. Biological sciences 30(2): 29–52.
Thompson, F.G. 1987. A review of the land snails of Mona Island, West Indies. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum. Biological sciences 31(2): 69–106.
Thompson, F.G. 1987. A new prosobranch land snail from eastern Mexico. Archiv für Molluskenkunde 117(4/6): 159–162.

1988

Thompson, F.G. & Lee, H.G. 1988. Hypselostoma holimanae new species, a pupillid land snail from Thailand. The Nautilus 102(2): 78–81, figs. 1–6. Reference page.
Thompson, F.G. 1988. The hollow-ribbed land snails of the genus Coelostemma of the southwestern United States and Mexico. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum. Biological sciences 33(2): 87–112.

1991

Thompson, F.G. & Correa, S. 1991. Mexican land snails of the genus Hendersoniella. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History. Biological sciences 36(1): 1–23.
Thompson, F.G. & Hershler, R. 1991. New hydrobiid snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Truncatelloidea) from North America. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 104(4): 669–683. Reference page.
Thompson, F.G. & Hershler, R. 1991. Two new hydrobiid snails (Amnicolinae) from Florida and Georgia, with a discussion of the biogeography of freshwater gastropods of South Georgia streams. Malacological Review 24: 55–72. Reference page.

1994

Thompson, F.G. & Correa, A. 1994. Land snails of the genus Coelocentrum from northeastern Mexico. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History. Biological sciences 36: 141–173.

1995

Thompson, F.G. 1995. A new freshwater snail from the Coosa River, Alabama (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Hydrobiidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 108(3): 502–507.
Thompson, F.G. 1995. New and little known land snails of the family Spiraxidae from Central America and Mexico (Gastropoda, Pulmonata). Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 39: 45–85.

1996

Thompson, F.G. & Al López, S.J. 1996. A new land snail of the genus Gastrocopta from Nicaragua (Pulmonata: Vertiginidae), and its relationship to species from northeastern South America. American Malacological Bulletin 13: 47–54.

1997

Thompson, F.G. & Upatham, S. 1997. Vertiginid land snails from Thailand (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Pupilloidea). Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History, Biological Sciences 39(7): 221-245. full article (PDF). Reference page.

1998

Thompson, F.G. 1998. Clausiliid land snails from Hispaniola and their relationships to other New World genera (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Clausiliidae). Archiv für Molluskenkunde 127(1/2): 33‑41. Frankfurt am Main.

2000

Thompson, F.G. & Brewer, G.P. 2000. Landsnails of the genus Humboldtiana from northern Mexico (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Helicoidea, Humboldtianidae). Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 43(2): 49–77.
Thompson, F.G. 2000. Freshwater snails of the genus Elimia from the Coosa River system, Alabama. Walkerana 11(25): 1–54.
Thompson, F.G. 2000. Three new freshwater snails of the genus Cincinnatia from peninsular Florida (Prosobranchia, Hydrobiidae). Walkerana 11(25): 55–73.

2001

Thompson, F.G. 2001. A new hydrobiid snail from a saline spring in southern Alabama (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia, Rissooidea). American Malacological Bulletin 16(1/2): 41–46.

2002

Thompson, F.G. & Hershler, R. 2002. Tepalcatia, a new genus of hydrobiid snails (Prosobranchia: Rissooidea) from the Rio Balsas Basin, Central Mexico. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 115: 189–204. Reference page.
Thompson, F.G. & Hershler, R. 2002. Two genera of North American freshwater snails: Marstonia Baker, 1926, resurrected to generic status, and Floridobia, mew genus (Prosobranchia: Hydrobiidae: Nymphophilinae). The Veliger 45(3): 269–271. Reference page.
Thompson, F.G. 2002. The taxonomic status of the freshwater snail Antillobia margalefi Altaba, 1993, from Hispaniola (Hydrobiidae: Cochliopinae). The Veliger 45(3): 264–267.

2005

Thompson, F.G. & Mihalcik, E. 2005. Urocoptid landsnails of the genus Holospira from southern Mexico. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 45(3): 63–124. Reference page.
Thompson, F.G. 2005. Two new species of hydrobiid snails of the genus Marstonia from Alabama and Georgia. The Veliger 47(3): 175–182.

2006

Thompson, F.G. & Mejia, O. 2006. Two new land snails of the genus Humboldtiana (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Humboldtianidae) from Chihuahua, Mexico. The Nautilus 120: 25–29.
Thompson, F.G. 2006. A new land snail of the genus Humboldtiana (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Humboldtianidae) from Nuevo Leon, Mexico. The Nautilus 120: 21–24.
Thompson, F.G. 2006. Some landsnails of the genus Humboldtiana from Chihuahua and western Texas. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 46(3): 61–98.

2008

Thompson, F.G. 2008. An Annotated Checklist and Bibliography of the Land and Freshwater Snails of Mexico and Central America. 903 pp.
Thompson, F.G. 2008. The clausiliid land snail genus Columbinia in Venezuela, and the description of a new species (Gastropoda Pulmonata: Stylommatophora: Clausiliidae: Neniinae). Archiv für Molluskenkunde 137(2): 127–132.

2009

Thompson, F.G. 2009. Five landsnails of the family Spiraxidae from southeastern Mexico: (Pulmonata: Spiraxidae). Archiv für Molluskenkunde 138(1): 63–70.

2010

Thompson, F.G. 2010. Four species of land snails from Costa Rica and Panama (Pulmonata: Spiraxidae). Revista de Biología Tropical 58(1): 195–202.

2011

Thompson, F.G. & Correa-Sandoval, A. 2011. Another new species of the urocoptid land snail genus Hendersoniella (Pulmonata, Urocoptidae, Holospirinae) from northeastern Mexico. The Veliger 51: 91–95.
Thompson, F.G. & Mihalcik, E.L. 2011. Land snails of the family Holospiridae from northern Mexico: Coelostemma and Metastoma (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Orthalicoidea). Archiv für Molluskenkunde 140(2): 245–263. Reference page.
Thompson, F.G. 2011. Mexistrophia, a new genus of Cerionidae from Mexico (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Urocoptoidea). The Nautilus 125(4): 182–192.
Thompson, F.G. 2011. An annotated checklist and bibliography of the land and freshwater snails of México and Central America. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 50(1): 1–299.

2012

Thompson, F.G. & Naranjo-García, E. 2012. Echinichidae, a new family of dart-bearing helicoid slugs from Mexico, with the description of a new genus and three new species (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Xanthonychoidea). Archiv für Molluskenkunde 141(2): 197–208.
Thompson, F.G. 2012: The land snail genus Epirobia and allied genera in México and Central America, with the description of a new family, the Epirobiidae (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Urocoptoidea). Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 51(3): 167-215. PDF Reference page.
Thompson, F.G. 2012. A new species of urocoptid land snail from Haiti and a discussion of the genus Autocoptis (Gastropoda: Urocoptidae). Revista de Biología Tropical 60(3): 1187–1193.

2013

Thompson, F.G. & Dourson, D.C. 2013. A new land snail of the genus Eucalodium from Belize (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Urocoptoidea: Eucalodiidae). The Nautilus 127: 153–155.

2014

Thompson, F.G. 2014. A review of the Mexican and Central American land snails of the genus Eucalodium Crosse & Fischer (Pulmonata: Urocoptoidea: Eucalodiidae). Archiv für Molluskenkunde 143(1): 69–105.