Erich Wagler (7 September 1884 in Zwickau – 29 August 1951) was a German ichthyologist and malacologist.

He studied natural sciences in Leipzig and Jena, obtaining his doctorate in zoology at Leipzig in 1912. From 1920 to 1926 he worked as a privat-docent, afterwards serving as a "non-scheduled associate professor" at the University of Leipzig.^[1]

Written works

• Faunistische und biologische Studien an freischwimmenden Cladoceren Sachsens, 1912 - Faunistic and biological studies of free-swimming cladocerans in Saxony.
• Amphipoda der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition. 2, Scinidae (1926) - part of the series: Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer Valdivia 1898/99, 20,6. - Amphipoda from the German Deepsea Expedition of 1898-99, Scinidae.
• Die Sciniden der deutschen Südpolar-Expedition 1901-1903, 1927 - Scinidae from the German South Pole Expedition of 1901-03.
• Die Tierwelt der Nord- und Ostsee, 1929 (with Georg Grimpe) - Fauna of the North and Baltic Seas.
• Die Coregonen in den Seen des Voralpengebietes - Whitefish native to the lakes of the Alpine region.
• Crustacea (Krebstiere), 1937 - Crustacea.
• Die Tierwelt Mitteleuropas, 1937 (with other authors) - Fauna of Central Europe.^[2]

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