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.
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>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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