Henry Hemphill

Henry Hemphill
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Born	1830 Wilmington, Delaware
Died	July 24, 1914(1914-07-24) (aged 84) Oakland, California

Henry Hemphill (1830–1914) was an American malacologist, a biologist who studies mollusks. In particular he studied land and freshwater mollusca.

Taxa

He named and described many molluscan taxa, including:

• Fluminicola columbiana Hemphill in Pilsbry, 1899 - a freshwater snail
• Helminthoglypta walkeriana (Hemphill, 1911)

A number of taxa were named after Hemphill, including:

• Hemphillia Bland & Binney, 1872, a land slug genus

References

• Dall W. H. (1914). "Henry Hemphill". Science (n.s.) 40(1025): 265-266.
• Dall W. H. (1914). "Henry Hemphill". The Nautilus 28(5): 58-59.
• Clench (1944). "Hemphill’s Catalogue of the land and freshwater shells of Utah". The Nautilus 57(3): 108.
• Pilsbry H. A. (1944). "Hemphill’s “Catalogue of the land and freshwater shells of Utah”". The Nautilus 57(4): 144.