A Field Guide to the Snails of Lord Howe Island

159 About the authors Isabel Hyman earned her B. Sc (Adv.) and Ph.D. from the University of Sydney for a taxonomic and systematic study of Australian Helicarionidae and Microcystidae, leading to the first of many field trips to Lord Howe Island in 2002. After a Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship at the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology in Munich working on limacid slugs, followed by several years of maternity leave, Isabel returned to the Australian Museum in 2015 where she has continued her research on the taxonomy and conservation of Australian land snails. Frank Köhler earned his diploma (MSc) and doctorate in biology from the Humboldt University, Berlin for a systematic study of freshwater snails in Southeast Asia. After completing a post-doc at the Museum of Natural History in Berlin, he moved to Sydney to commence working as a Research Scientist at the Australian Museum. Here, taxonomic studies of land snails in the Kimberley, central Australia and Queensland have been the main focus of his research since 2012. Frank first visited Lord Howe Island in 2016, and has since returned several times to investigate the endemic land snails of the island.