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Winston F. Ponder (1941) è un malacologo neozelandese. Nel corso della sua carriera scientifica ha descritto numerose specie, generi e famiglie di molluschi marini e d'acqua dolce.

He graduated with an MSc, PhD and DSc from the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Ponder was the principal research scientist in the malacologia section of the Australian Museum, Sydney, and helped to build up the museum's mollusc collection so that it became one of the most extensive of its kind in the world.

Ponder retired from this post after a long career of more than forty years of research on molluscs, and is now an Honorary Fellow.^[1]

He has been the president of the Society of Australian Systematic Biologists, and was the managing editor of the journal Molluscan Research of the Malacological Society of Australasia.^[2] for 8 years.

Ponder è autore di oltre 250 pubblicazioni scientifiche.^[3] Many of these are on the subjects of the freshwater molluscs of Australia, and on invertebrate conservation.

Uno dei suoi maggiori contributi was a taxonomy of the Gastropoda, pubblicata assieme a David R. Lindberg nel 1997.^[4] This was the last major publication on the taxonomy of the Gastropoda that was based on the morphology of snails and slugs (their internal and external shapes and forms).

In 2008, again with David Lindberg, he edited the book "Phylogeny and Evolution of the Mollusca"^[5] in which 36 experts provided an up-to-date review on the evolutionary history of the Mollusca, based on reinvestigation of morphological characters, molecular data and the fossil record.

• Clark A., Miller A. C. & Ponder W. F. (2003) Revision of the snail genus Austropyrgus (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae). 109 pp.
• W. F. Ponder, Monograph of the Australian Bithyniidae (Caenogastropoda: Rissooidea) (PDF), in Zootaxa, vol. 230, 4 July 2003, pp. 1–126. - There are 17 newly described species from the genus Gabbia.
• Colgan D. J., Ponder W. F., Beacham E. & Macaranas J. (2006). "Molecular phylogenetics of Caenogastropoda (Gastropoda: Mollusca)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 42(3): 717–737. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2006.10.009 PDF
• Ponder W. & Lindberg D. R. (2008). Phylogeny and Evolution of the Mollusca. University of California Press, 469 pp. ISBN 978-0-520-25092-5.

In 2008 Ponder received the Australian Marine Sciences Association Silver Jubilee Award for a lifetime of achievement in research on marine molluscs.^[6]

In 2009 he was awarded the en:Clarke Medal in recognition of his Zoological work by the Royal Society of New South Wales.^[7]

Sono stati nominati in suo onore:

• il genere Ponderia Hoaurt, 1986

e numerose specie tra cui:

• Aspella ponderi Radwin & D' Attilio, 1976
• Limatula ponderi Fleming, 1978
• Echineulima ponderi Warén, 1980
• Pisinna ponderi Palazzi, 1982
• Notocrater ponderi B. A. Marshall, 1986
• Sassia ponderi Beu, 1986
• Tritonoharpa ponderi Beu & Maxwell, 1987
• Favartia ponderi Myers & d'Attilio, 1989
• Amalda ponderi Ninomiya, 1991
• Choristella ponderi McLean, 1992
• Austrotrochaclis ponderi B. A. Marshall, 1995
• Powellisetia ponderi Numanami, 1996
• Fissidentalium ponderi Lamprell & Healy, 1998
• Posticobia ponderi Clark, 2009
• Amplirhagada ponderi Köhler, 2010