Eduard von Martens (18 April 1831 – 14 August 1904) also known as Carl or Karl Eduard von Martens, was a German zoologist. Born in Stuttgart in 1831, von Martens attended university in Tübingen, where he graduated in 1855. He then moved to Berlin, where he would be based for the remainder of his career, both at the Zoological Museum of the Berlin University (from 1855) and, from 1859 on, at the . In 1860, he embarked on the Thetis expedition of the Prussian expedition to Eastern Asia. When the expedition returned to Europe in 1862, von Martens continued to travel around Maritime Southeast Asia for 15 months. He published the results of the "Thetis" expedition in two volumes, constituting the Zoologischer Theil of the "Preussische Expedition nach Ost-Asien." Vol. ii, consisting of 447 pages and 22 plates, contained a very full account of the land molluscs. Back in Berlin, von Martens was curator of the malacological and other invertebrate sections until his death. Von Martens described 155 new genera (150 of them molluscs) and almost 1,800 species (including around 1,680 molluscs, 39 crustaceans, and 50 echinoderms). He was a foreign member of the Linnean Society of London, and a corresponding member of the Zoological Society of London. Bibliography Besides many memoirs, von Martens wrote over 200 separate papers in scientific publications. Besides his work on Mollusca, von Martens wrote upon all branches of zoology, but especially upon Crustacea and Echinoderms.. 1850s 1856. 1857. 1858. 1858. 1859. 1859. 1859. 1859. 1860s 1860. Die Heliceen, nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet. Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig. (with Johann Christian Albers) 1860. 1860. 1860. 1861. 1861. 1863. 1863. 1863. 1863. 1863. 1864. 1864. 1864. 1864. 1864. 1864. 1864. 1864. 1864. 1865. 1865. 1865. 1865. 1865. 1865. 1865. 1866. 1866. 1866. 1866. 1866. Genus Lanistes Montfort. In: Novitates Conchologicae. Series Prima. Mollusca extramarina. Beschreibung und Abbildung neuer oder kritischer Land- und Süßwassermollusken., vol. 2 Pfeiffer, K. ed., 285–295 1867. Die Preussische Expedition nach Ost-Asien. Nach amtlichen Quellen. Zoologischer Theil. Zweiter Band. Die Landschnecken, vol. 2, Königliche Geheime Ober-Hofbuchdruckerei, Berlin 1867. 1867. 1867. 1867. 1867. 1867. 1868. 1868. 1868. 1868. 1868. 1868. Description of a new species. In: Novitates Conchologicae. Series Prima. Mollusca extramarina. Beschreibung und Abbildung neuer oder kritischer Land- und Süßwassermollusken., vol. 3 Pfeiffer, K. ed., 381 1869. Mollusken. In: Baron Carl Claus von der Decken's Reisen in Ost-Afrika in den Jahren 1859–1865, vol. 3