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Re: Help on a Word
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Thomas Eichhorst <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 18 Oct 2013 20:50:52 -0600
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Yes..., thank you.  This is certainly the chap.  It would have been nice
if Récluz had given some clue as to why the name, but I've got it now.
Thank you,

Tom

On 10/18/2013 8:27 PM, Rick Harbo wrote:
> ... Christian Horace Bénédict Alfred Moquin-Tandon, (7 May) 1804-63 (15
> Apr.), French medical Dr. and marine biologist (mainly malacologist), who
> also used the pseudonym Alfred Frédol. He was Prof. of Zoology in
> Marseille
> between 1829-33, then Prof. of Botany in Toulouse until 1850, when he
> studied the flora of Corsica, but moved in 1853 to Paris, where he i.a.
> became Director of Jardin des Plantes.
> Rick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Callomon,Paul
> Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 7:10 PM
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>
> Possibly named for the naturalist Moquin-Tandon?
>
> PC
> ________________________________________
> From: Conchologists List [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Thomas
> Eichhorst [[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 10:01 PM
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> Subject: [CONCH-L] Help on a Word
>
> Does anyone in Conch-L land know the etymology of moquiniana.  I have
> found it as a plant name as well as a mollusk, but can't find its
> meaning or root.  Thanks,
>
> Tom Eichhorst
>
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