Frank Fortescue Laidlaw
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Frank Fortescue Laidlaw was a British biologist
who studied molluscs, a malacologist.
He named a number of species of snail
s, including:
Biologist
A biologist is a scientist devoted to and producing results in biology through the study of life. Typically biologists study organisms and their relationship to their environment. Biologists involved in basic research attempt to discover underlying mechanisms that govern how organisms work...
who studied molluscs, a malacologist.
He named a number of species of snail
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
s, including:
- The land snail genus ColparionColparionColparion is a genus of minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Euconulidae, the hive snails....
Further reading
- S. P. Dance, 1964. Obituary. Frank Fortescue Laidlaw, 1876-1963. Journal of Conchology 25(7): 288-291, pl. 19