Spiridon Brusina
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Spiridon Brusina was a Croatian malacologist.

Together with Oton Kučera
Oton Kucera
Oton Kučera was a Croatian astronomer. He played a crucial role by popularizing science and technology in Croatia...

 and Gjuro Pilar
Gjuro Pilar
Đuro Pilar was an Croatian geologist, professor and rector at the University of Zagreb.-Biography:Pilar had, with his mother , a strong family relationship to Bosnia....

, he founded the Croatian Society of Natural Sciences in Zagreb
Zagreb
Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...

 in the late 1885.

Taxa described

  • Drobacia
    Drobacia
    Drobacia is a genus of medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Helicidae, the typical snails.This genus was formerly a subgenus of the genus Chilostoma.-Species:...

    Brusina, 1904
  • Emmericia
    Emmericia
    Emmericia is a genus of very small freshwater snails which have an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Amnicolidae, according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda ....

    Brusina, 1870
  • Erjavecia Brusina, 1870
  • Spelaeodiscus
    Spelaeodiscus
    Spelaeodiscus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Spelaeodiscidae.This is the type genus of the family Spelaeodiscidae.- Species :The genus Spelaeodiscus contains the following species:...

    Brusina, 1886
  • Vidovicia Brusina, 1904
  • Trochulus erjaveci (Brusina, 1870)
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