Heinrich Simroth

Heinrich Rudolf Simroth (10 May 1851 Riestedt (now a part of Sangerhausen) – 31 August 1917 Gautzsch near Leipzig ), was a German zoologist and malacologist. He was a professor of zoology in Leipzig.

Academic career: 1888–1917 University of Leipzig.

He was a specialist for slugs. He discovered and described various new species of slugs.

Species of animals named in honor of him include:
 * Bulimulus simrothi (Reibisch, 1892) – snail
 * Pseudaneitea simrothi (Suter, 1896) – slug
 * Arion simrothi - slug
 * Tapinoma simrothi Krausse, 1911 - ant
 * Bipalium simrothi - planarian

It was thought that there is no collection by Simroth. His collection of type specimen of 43 slugs has been found Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin in 2010.