Malacologist Petr Kuchar - an obituary

Petr Kuchar was born 57 years ago.  He died suddenly on the 29 January 2006.
He spent most of his life in the northern Bohemian town of Mezibori, Czech
Republic. Already in 1959 he began to show an interest in terrestrial
snails. His most productive time were the years 1977 - 1989. His last
collection dates from 1997.  Unfortunately his health problems did not allow
him to either continue or expand his malacological research. His filing
system contained more than 1,600 thoroughly documented entries, from which
90 % refer to the Czech Republic. A string of valuable localities,
especially in the district of Most, had to make way for coal-mining or were
flooded by dam water, and thus no longer exist.

He collaborated, among others, with J. G. J. Kuiper, Vojen Lozek, Vaclav
Pfleger, Sylvestr Macha, Jaroslav Brabenec, Lubos R. Kolouch. In time he
became an acknowledged Czech(oslovak) expert on the taxonomically difficult
group of small, aquatic snails of Sphaeriidae.

He published his findings, e.g. in 1979 "New record of Pisidium
moitessierianum ...in the CSSR = Czechoslovakia", and in 1988, in
co-authorship with Radovan Kuchar "New record of Potamopyrgus jenkinsi ...in
the CSSR" (published in "Fauna Bohemiae Septentrionalis").  His sometimes
difficult life has come to an end.  We shall always remember you, dear
friend!

Lubos R. Kolouch

www.kolouch.com

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