John D. Slapcinsky

Where Slapcinsky collected

Specimens by decade

Earliest: Tornatellides procerulus, 1988. Latest: Lamellidea, 2025.

In the Library

Publications in the Library whose author line carries this name.

1. 2025

   First record of Mieniplotia scabra (Gastropoda: Thiaridae) in Hawaiʻi: Another non-native introduction to Hawaiʻi’s already imperiled freshwater systems

   Hayes, K.A., Slapcinsky, J., Atta, C., Strong, E.E., Derne, B.T., Kinzler, T.P., Hill, M.M.Y., Kim, J.R. & Yeung, N.W. · In: Evenhuis, N.L., (ed.), Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2025. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 163: 103-108.

   Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey

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2. 2025

   Sorting out the stupefying systematics of Succineidae introduced to Hawaiʻi

   Hayes, K.A., Slapcinsky, J., Kim, J.R., Strong, E.E., Robinson, D.G., Meyer, W.M., III & & Yeung, N.W. · Bioinvasions: in press.

   Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey

3. 2025

   First record of Mieniplotia scabra (Gastropoda: Thiaridae) in Hawaiʻi: Another non-native introduction to Hawaiʻi’s already imperiled freshwater systems

   Hayes, K.A., J. Slapcinsky, C. Atta, E.E. Strong, D. B.T., T.P. Kinzler, M.M.Y. Hill, J.R. Kim, and N.W. Yeung · Bishop Museum Occasional Papers

   Museum research publication

4. 2023

   Tiny snails with large distributions: systematics and delimitation of the Pacific land snails Pacificella and Lamellidea (Stylommatophora: Achatinellidae: Pacificellinae

   Goulding, T.C., N.W. Yeung, J. Slapcinsky, E.E. Strong, J.R. Kim, F. Brook, and K.A. Hayes · Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists

   Museum research publication

   DOI

5. 2020

   Overlooked but not forgotten: the first new extant species of Hawaiian land snail described in 60 years, Auriculella gagneorum (Achatinellidae: Auriculellinae)

   Yeung, N.W., Slapcinsky, J., Strong, E.E., Kim, J.R. & Hayes, K.A. · ZooKeys: in press.

   Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey

6. 2020

   Plants critical for Hawaiian land snail conservation: arboreal snail plant preferences in Puu Kukui Watershed, Maui, and other Hawaiian Islands

   Meyer, W.M. III, Evans, L.M., Kalahiki, C.J.K., Slapcinsky, J., Goulding, T.C., Robinson, D.G., Kaniaupo-Crozier, D.P., Hayes, K.A. & Yeung, N.W. · Oryx. In press.

   Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey

7. 2020

   Type specimens of Hawaiian land snails in the Paleontological Research Institutiion in Ithaca, New York

   Goulding, T.C., Strong, E.E., Hayes, K.A., Slapcinsky, J., Kim, J.R. & Yeung, N.W. · American Malacological Bulletin: in press.

   Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey

8. 2020

   The last known Endodonta species?

   Hayes, K.A., Slapcinsky, J., Sischo, D.R., Kim, J.M. & Yeung, N.W. · Endodonta christenseni sp. nov. (Gastropoda: Endodontidae). Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 138: 1-15.

   Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey

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Named for Slapcinsky

Taxa in the collection whose epithet is formed from the name Slapcinsky. The naming author’s intent is not recorded, so where several collectors share a surname they are listed under the best-known one.

• Gerrhopilus slapcinskyi Gerrhopilidae2

From the field

As a determiner

682 specimens carry this name as the person who identified them. Most often:

• Leptopoma72
• Palaeohelicina71
• Pseudocyclotus54
• Rhynchotrochus albocarinatus21
• Trochomorpha21
• Rhynchotrochus wiegmanni18
• Dendrotrochus16
• Megalacron novaegeorgiensis15
• Partula14
• Chloritis14