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Re: Couple of taxonomic questions
From:
G Thomas Watters <[log in to unmask]>
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Conchologists of America List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Thu, 30 Sep 1999 14:40:53 -0400
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At 01:52 PM 9/30/99 -0400, you wrote:
>1.  What individual has the greatest number of molluscan species named AFTER
>him? (I realize the Sowerby clan complicates this question).

Linda Petuch.

>
>2.  What individual is the author of the greatest number of valid molluscan
>names?  (Again, the Sowerby boys make this difficult).

Locard? Lea?

>
>3.  Are there any mollusks named after Linnaeus?  If not, why not?  Are
>there non-molluscan species named after him?

Anodonta linneana Lea, 1852


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