Liltved, William Rune
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Name (Latin)
Liltved, William Rune
Other forms of name
Liltved, Bill
Date of birth
1960
Place of birth
Basel (Switzerland)
Associated country
South Africa
United States
Switzerland
Place of residence/headquarters
Noordhoek (South Africa)
Associate group
South African National Biodiversity Institute
Compton Herbarium
California Academy of Sciences
California Academy of Sciences (1985 - 1985)
South African Museum
South African Museum (1979 - 1979)
Occupation
Biologists Marine biologists Botanists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
Sources of Information
- Cowries and their relatives of southern Africa, 2000:t.p. (William Rune Liltved)
- The Cape orchids, 2012:t.p. (William R. Liltved; research associate, Compton Herbarium, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Kirstenbosch, Cape Town) p. xiii (location, Noordhoek, Cape Town) jkt. (William (Bill) Liltved; b. in Basel, Switzerland, of South African and Norwegian parentage; he did extensive research on southern African marine Mollusca; worked at South African Museum, Cape Town (1979-1984) and California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco (1985-1989); returned to South Africa in late 1989; his research interests expanded to Cape flora, particularly orchids and amaryllids; resident of the Cape Peninsula)
- The Cape orchids website, viewed Dec. 9, 2013:the authors (William (Bill) Liltved (1960- ))
Wikipedia description:
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. 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. The standard author abbreviation Liltved is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
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