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Partula Garrettii
''Partula garrettii'' is a species of air-breathing tropical land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Partulidae. This species is endemic to Ra'iātea, French Polynesia French Polynesia ( ; ; ) is an overseas collectivity of France and its sole #Governance, overseas country. It comprises 121 geographically dispersed islands and atolls stretching over more than in the Pacific Ocean, South Pacific Ocean. The t .... Infraspecies '' Partula garrettii garrettii'' - status unknown '' Partula garrettii rustica'' - extinct '' Partula garrettii thalia'' - extinct References External links garrettii Taxa named by William Harper Pease Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Gastropods described in 1864 {{Partulidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Harper Pease
William Harper Pease (1824–1871) was a 19th-century American conchologist, shell collector and malacologist. He described many species of Indo-Pacific marine mollusks from the Cuming collection. He moved in 1849 to Honolulu, from where he continued his research One of the genera he described and named was the sea slug genus: '' Philinopsis'' Pease, 1860 Several species were named in his honor : '' Favartia peasei'' (Tryon, 1880), '' Conus peasei'' J. Brazier, 1877, ''Amygdalum peasei'' W. Newcomb, 1870 and '' Hypselodoris peasei'' (Bergh, 1880) For many years, no image of Pease was known, until a 2021 paper revealed that two (one shown above) had been discovered in the Bishop Museum The Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, designated the Hawaii State Museum of Natural and Cultural History, is a museum of history and science in the historic Kalihi district of Honolulu, Hawaii, Honolulu on the Hawaiian island of Oʻahu. Founded in 1 ... Archives, Honolulu. Bibliography * Peas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |