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Comitas Vegai
''Comitas'' is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, which are Marine (ocean), marine gastropod molluscs in the family (biology), family Pseudomelatomidae. Species and subspecies Species and subspecies (indented) in the genus ''Comitas'' include: * † ''Comitas abnormis'' L. C. King, 1933 * ''Comitas aequatorialis'' (Johannes Thiele (zoologist), Thiele, 1925) * ''Comitas albicincta'' (Arthur Adams (zoologist), A. Adams & Lovell Augustus Reeve, Reeve, 1850) * † ''Comitas aldingensis'' Powell, 1944 * † ''Comitas allani'' Powell, 1942 * ''Comitas anteridion'' (Watson, 1881) * ''Comitas arcana'' (Edgar Albert Smith, E. A. Smith, 1899) * † ''Comitas bilix'' Marwick, 1931 * ''Comitas bolognai'' Bozzetti, 2001 * ''Comitas breviplicata'' (Edgar Albert Smith, E. A. Smith, 1899) * ''Comitas chuni'' (von Martens, 1902) * † ''Comitas clarae'' (G.F. Harris, 1897) * ''Comitas crenularoides'' (Pritchard, 1896) * ''Comitas curviplicata'' Sysoev, 1996 * † ''Comitas declivis'' Powell, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold John Finlay
Harold John Finlay (22 March 1901 – 7 April 1951) was a New Zealand palaeontologist and conchologist. Biography Finlay was born in Comilla, India (now Bangladesh), on 22 March 1901, to a family of Baptist missionaries. He was left a paraplegic after contracting poliomyelitis at the age of four, but was able to participate in field excursions. The family moved to Dunedin in 1906. He graduated from the University of Otago with B.Sc. and M.Sc. He received the Hamilton Memorial Prize of the New Zealand Institute in 1926 and a D.Sc. in 1927. His main research interest was marine and non-marine malacofauna of New Zealand, both recent and fossil. Much of his work focused on mollusc taxonomy and biostratigraphy. After graduation, Finlay ran into financial hardship, living off of research grants, and occasional work as a contract consultant for oil exploration companies. Finlay was appointed to the Geological Survey of New Zealand in 1937, where he worked a micropaleontologist st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |