Arthur Adams (1820 in
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, Hampshire – 1878) was an
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Adams was assistant surgeon Royal Navy on board
HMS ''Samarang'' during the survey of the islands of the
Eastern Archipelago, from 1843 to 1846. He edited the ''Zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Samarang'' (1850).
Adam White collaborated with him in the descriptions of the
Crustacea
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from the voyage. In 1857, during the
Second China War whilst serving as Surgeon on
HMS ''Actaeon'', he was present at the storming of
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and awarded the
China War Medal. He retired as Staff Surgeon aboard flagship
HMS ''Royal Adelaide'' at
Plymouth
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in 1870.
He was a prolific
malacologist
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who described "hundreds of new species, most of them unillustrated and insufficiently
diagnosed". He partly worked together with his brother
Henry Adams
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(1813–1877) and together they wrote
The genera of recent mollusca: arranged according to their organization' (three volumes, 1858). He also wrote ''Travels of a naturalist in Japan and Manchuria'' (1870), and an article about the interesting spiders seen on his travels.
Works
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Species named after Arthur Adams
''
Finella adamsi'' (Dall, 1889), ''
Arcopsis adamsi'' (Dall, 1886), ''Hinnites adamsi'' Dall, 1886 (synonym of ''
Pseudohinnites adamsi'' (Dall, 1886) ), ''
Brachidontes adamsianus'' (Dunker, 1857), ''
Nucinella adamsi'' (Dall, 1898); likely ''
Natica adamsiana'' R. W. Dunker, 1860, possibly ''Octopus adamsi'' Benham, 1944 (synonym of ''
Octopus huttoni'' Benham, 1943), possibly ''
Zebrida adamsii'' White, 1847.
Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names: Henry Adams
References
External links
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WoRMS : List with taxa named by Adams
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1820 births
1878 deaths
British conchologists
English malacologists
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English zoologists
British carcinologists
19th-century British zoologists