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Leptochela Papulata
''Leptochela'' is a genus of small, shallow-water shrimp from the family Pasiphaeidae. They are found in the Indo-Pacific region and the western Atlantic with an isolated species in Hawaii, they are absent from the eastern Atlantic Ocean and were absent from the eastern Pacific but specimens of a species widespread in the western Atlantic were collected from waters to the south of the tip of Baja California. Two species, ''Leptochela aculeocaudata'' and ''Leptochela pugnax'' have invaded the eastern Mediterranean from the Red Sea through the Suez Canal and are thus classified as Lessepsian migration, Lessepsian migrants. Species The genus is split into two subgenera ''Leptochela'' and ''Proboloura'' and contains 17 currently recognised extant species. ''Leptochela'' * ''Leptochela aculeocaudata'' Paul'son, 1875 * ''Leptochela bermudensis'' Robert Gurney, Gurney, 1939 * ''Leptochela chacei'' Hayashi, 1995 * ''Leptochela crosnieri'' Hayashi, 1995 * ''Leptochela elevata'' Vereshc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Stimpson
William Stimpson (February 14, 1832 – May 26, 1872) was an American scientist. He was interested particularly in marine biology. Stimpson became an important early contributor to the work of the Smithsonian Institution and later, director of the Chicago Academy of Sciences. Biography Stimpson was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Herbert Hathorne Stimpson and Mary Ann Devereau Brewer. The Stimpsons were of the colonial stock of Massachusetts, the earliest known member of the family being James Stimpson, who was married in 1661, in Milton. His mother died at an early age. William Stimpson's father was an ingenious inventor, and a leading merchant of Boston in the mid decades of the nineteenth century, trading as "H. & F. Stimpson, stoves and furnaces, corner of Congress and Water Streets. It was he who invented the "Stimpson range", the first sheet-iron Kitchen stove, cooking stove, famous in its day throughout New England. He also made Rifle#19th century, improvements in rifl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |