malacologist
nounEtymology From malacology + -ist.
1
A person who studies molluscs; a specialist in malacology.
- In the early 1800s the French malacologist Pierre Denys de Montfort published an account of a British ship of the line that he claimed had been sunk, and its crew devoured, by a Colossal octopus, or Kraken.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 233: