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