Henry Hemphill
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Henry Hemphill was an American malacologist, a biologist
who studies mollusks. In particular he studied land and freshwater mollusca.
A number of taxa were named after Hemphill, 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 studies mollusks. In particular he studied land and freshwater mollusca.
Taxa
He named and described many molluscan taxa, including:- Fluminicola columbiana Hemphill in PilsbryHenry Augustus PilsbryHenry Augustus Pilsbry was an American biologist, malacologist and carcinologist, among other areas of study. He was a dominant presence in many fields of invertebrate taxonomy for the better part of a century...
, 1899 - a freshwater snail - Helminthoglypta walkeriana (Hemphill, 1911)
A number of taxa were named after Hemphill, including:
- HemphilliaHemphilliaHemphillia is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Arionidae, the roundback slugs.The generic name Hemphillia is in honor of an American malacologist Henry Hemphill .- Species :...
Bland & BinneyWilliam G. BinneyWilliam Green Binney William G. Binney, as he is usually referenced, was an American malacologist, working mostly during the second half of the nineteenth century...
, 1872, a land slug genus
Further reading
- Anonymous. (1914). "In memoriam – Henry Hemphill". Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 2(1): 58-60.
- Dall W. H.W. H. DallWilliam Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...
(1914). "Henry Hemphill". Science (n.s.) 40(1025): 265-266. - Dall W. H. (1914). "Henry Hemphill". The Nautilus 28(5): 58-59.
- ClenchWilliam J. ClenchWilliam James Clench was an American malacologist, professor at Harvard University and curator of the mollusk collection in the malacology department of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard.Clench was born in Brooklyn, but was largely raised in Massachusetts. In 1913 he entered the...
(1944). "Hemphill’s Catalogue of the land and freshwater shells of Utah". The Nautilus 57(3): 108. - Pilsbry H. A.Henry Augustus PilsbryHenry Augustus Pilsbry was an American biologist, malacologist and carcinologist, among other areas of study. He was a dominant presence in many fields of invertebrate taxonomy for the better part of a century...
(1944). "Hemphill’s “Catalogue of the land and freshwater shells of Utah”". The Nautilus 57(4): 144.