Harry Lee is an American shell collector. He has named 36 species and has had 18 others named for him. He is considered one of the top amateur experts in the field of mollusks. He is donating his collection, one of the world's largest, to the

Florida Museum of Natural History The Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH) is Florida's official state-sponsored and chartered natural-history museum. Its main facilities are located at 3215 Hull Road on the campus of the University of Florida in Gainesville. The main pub ...

at the

University of Florida The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida, traces its origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its ...

. Lee lives in

Citrus County, Florida Citrus County is a county located on the west central coast of the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2020 census, the population was 153,843. Its county seat is Inverness, and its largest community is Homosassa Springs, Florida, Homosassa Sprin ...

and is married with two children.

Selected publications

* *Lyons, William G., and Harry G. Lee. "Fasciolaria gigantea Kiener, 1840 (currently Triplofusus giganteus; Mollusca, Gastropoda, Fasciolariidae): the correct name for the horse conch of the southeastern United States and Mexico." ''The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature'' 75, no. 1 (2018): 195-203. *Lee, Harry G. "Genera of American Strombid Gastropods (Gastropoda: Strombidae) and Remarks on Their Phylogený." ''Veliger'' 49, no. 4 (2007): 256-264. *Lee, Harry G. "Partulid snails, their collectors, and a prodigious dynasty of French naturalists." ''American Conchologist'' 40, no. 1 (2012): 10-19. *Lee, Harry G. "Shelled land snails of the Calusa shell mound, Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge, Sanibel Island, and of Lee County, Florida." ''Florida Scientist'' (2014): 2-14.

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