Sylvanus Hanley

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Sylvanus Charles Thorp Hanley (born January 7, 1819 in Holywell Street in Oxford , † April 5, 1899 in Penzance ) was a British malacologist .

Life and Wiken

Hanley had inherited richly and was dedicated to collecting molluscs, especially mussels. The majority of his collection came to the Leeds City Museum, some is in the Natural History Museum .

Many publications come from him, whereby he also used photos. He used the pen name Charles Thorpe.

He was the first to describe at least 219 species, including the first description of the brown mangrove mussel (Glauconome rugosa).

Memberships

In 1843 Hanley was introduced by Lovell Augustus Reeve as member number 282 of the Société cuviérienne .

Fonts

  • The conchologist's book of species: containing descriptions of six hundred species of univalves, London 1842, Archive
  • An illustrated, enlarged, and English edition of Lamarck's Species of shells comprising the whole of the recent additions in Deshayes' last French edition, with numerous species not noticed by that naturalist, accompanied by accurate delineations of almost all the shells described, and forming the third edition of the Index testaceologicus, London 1843, Archives
  • with Edward Forbes : A history of British Mollusca and their shells, 4 volumes, London: van Voorst, 1853, Archives, Volume 1 , Volume 2 , Volume 3 , Volume 4
  • Ipsa Linnaei conchylia: The shells of Linnaeus, determined from his manuscripts and collections; also, an exact reprint of the Vermes testacea of ​​the 'Systema naturae' and 'Mantissa', London: Williams and Norgate 1855
  • with William Wood: Index Testaceologicus: An Illustrated Catalog of British and Foreign Shells 1856
  • with William Theobald : Conchologia Indica: Illustrations of the Land and Freshwater Shells of British India, Malacological Society of London, 1870 to 1876, Archives

literature

  • Adrian Norris, S. Peter Dance: Sylvanus Charles Thorp Hanley (1819-1899) a nineteenth-century dilettante of the shell world . In: Journal of Conchology . tape 37 , no. 4 , 2002, ISSN  0022-0019 , p. 363-382 .
  • Eugene Coan, Alan Kabat: The Malacological Works and Taxa of Sylvanus Hanley (1819-1899) . In: Malacologia . tape 55 , no. 4 , 2012, p. 285-359 , doi : 10.4002 / 040.055.0208 .
  • Edgar A. Smith: Sylvanus Hanley . In: Journal of Conchology . tape 9 , 1900, p. 269-270 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Société Cuvierienne: Nouveaux membres admis dans la Société curvienne . In: Revue Zoologique par La Société Cuvierienne . tape 6 , 1843, pp. 224 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Coan, Kabat, Petit, 2400 years of Malacology, 2011, in Malacologia, Volume 55, 2012, on the other hand, Coan and Kabat state that Charles Thorpe is a relative
  2. ^ Coan, Kabat, see literature
  3. ↑ Glauconomidae
  4. ^ Société cuviérienne, p. 224.
personal data
SURNAME Hanley, Sylvanus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hanley, Sylvanus Charles Thorp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British malacologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Oxford
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1899
Place of death Penzance