Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names. V & W

Dr. Jean Vacelet, 1935-, explored most of the reefs on earth and specialized in underwater caves, where he discovered many curious and novel sponge types. Recently he published an article in Nature on the first carnivorous sponge ever to be found. He is employed at the Station Marine d'Endoume at Marseille [Acanthella vaceleti Van Soest & Stentoft, 1988, Stelletta vaceleti Lévi & Lévi, 1983a, Vaceletia Picket, 1982, Vaceletida Reitner, 1992]. (Dr. Rob van Soest kindly provided this information).

Prof. Max(ime) Vachon, 1908-91, specialist of arachnids, particularly scorpions and pseudoscorpions. Director (1955-77) of the Laboratoire de Zoologie (Arthropodes) of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris. He is honoured in the amphipod name Elasmopus vachoni Mateus & Mateus, 1966 and in the diogenid hermit crab name Calcinus vachoni Forest, 1958. (Dr. Mark Judson, at the MNHN, Paris, kindly provided most of this information and Dr. Alain Crosnier from the same museum added the hermit crab name).

Sunniva Vader (neé Lønning), 1934-85, Norwegian zoophysiologist, is honoured in the amphipod name Bathyporeia sunnivae Bellan-Santini & Vader, 1988, the last author Professor Wim (Willem Jan Marinus) Vader, 1937-, being her widower. He is curator of every kind of animals except insects at the Tromsø Museum and a generalist in fauna knowledge, but mainly a specialist on amphipods and has been the instigator and editor of the Amphipod Newsletter from 1970 on. He was born in the Netherlands, married, lived and worked in Bergen, Norway during the 1960s and early 1970s, but the family moved in 1973 to Tromsø, where he has stayed [Wimvadocus Krapp-Schickel & Jarrett, 2000, Epimeria vaderi Coleman, 1998, Metandania wimi Berge, 2001, also a terrestrial gastropod is named for him] (Prof. Vader himself kindly provided some informations).

Vagner : (see N.P. Wagner).

Prof. Martin Hendriksen Vahl, (10 Oct. - Bergen) 1749-1804 (24 Dec. - Copenhagen), Norwegian-Danish Linnean disciple, geographer and botanist, edited i.a. several volums of "Flora Danica" [Lycodes vahlii Reinhardt, 1831, Margarites vahlii Møller, 1842], though Lysianassa vahlii Krøyer, ex Reinhardt MS,1838 and Socarnes vahli (Krøyer, 1838) is named for M. Vahl's son Jens Lorenz Mostue Vahl, 1796-1854, also he a botanist, who during a stay in Greenland (1828-36), sent several different specimens to Reinhardt.

Lacking information about E. Vahlkampf, 18??-19??, in the gymnamoeba name Vahlkampfia Chatton & Lalung-Bonnaire, 1912, and Vahlkampfia vahlkampfi Chatton, 1910 (formerly Amoeba limax Vahlkampf, 1905). Vahlkampf was the first person to describe the characteristic mitosis of these animals.

The marine officer Auguste Nicolas Vaillant, 1793-1858, took part in the circumnavigation 1836-37 with "La Bonite".

Léon Louis Vaillant, (11 Nov.) 1834-1914 (24 Nov.), French naturalist and malacologist, professor at the natural history museum, Paris, who i.a. took part in the expeditions with "Travailleur" (1880, 1881 & 1882) and "Talisman" (1883). He was the son of Auguste Nicolas Vaillant above. [Munidopsis vaillanti (A. Milne-Edwards, 1881), Amphiporus vaillanti Joubin, 1902, Bathophilus vaillanti (Zugmayer, 1911), Solariella vaillanti Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1896, Turbonilla vaillanti Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1896, Solamen vaillanti Issel, 1869, Lophius vaillanti Regan, 1903].

Lacking information about Valder in the cyanophyte name Leptolyngbya valderiana (Gomont) Anagn. & Komárek.

Valdes : (see Scarabino).

Achille Valenciennes, (9 Aug. - Paris) 1794-1865 (13 Apr.), French disciple of de Lamarck (q.v.), who occupied the chair of non articulate invertebrates at the Paris Museum during 33 years. He was an all round zoologist, but is most well-known as an ichthyologist [Valenciennea Bleeker, 1868, Valenciennellus Jordan & Evermann in Goode & Bean, 1896, Valenciennius Rousseau, in Démidoff, 1842, Valencinia de Quatrefages, 1846, Acropora valenciennesi (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1860), Ophiacantha valenciennesi Lyman, 18??, Glossodoris valenciennesi (Cantraine, 1835), Nemadactylus valenciennesi, Hypselodoris valenciennesi (Cantraine, 1841), Lithuaria valenciennesi d'Hondt, 1984, Montastrea valenciennesi (Milne Edwards & Haime 1848), Symphyllia valenciennesi Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849, Valenciennellus Jordan & Evermann in Goode & Bean, 1895, Pachyseris valenciennesi , Oculina valenciennesi Milne Edwards & Haime, 1850, Callionymus valenciennei Temminck & Schlegel, 1845].

The cowry name Leporicypraea valentia (Perry, 1811) is in honour of Lord Valentia, who aquired the first specimen. This person is likely identical with George Annesley, Earl of Mountnorris, Viscount Valentia, 1769-1844, who published about his "Voyages and travels to India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia, and Egypt : in the years 1802, 1803, 1804, 1805, and 1806".

Valentich-Scott : (see Scott).

Lacking information about Valentin (or Valentini) in the fish name Canthigaster valentini (Bleeker, 1853). Possibly a tribute to the German physiologist Gabriel Gustav Valentin, (8 July - Breslau) 1810-83 (4 May - Bern, Switzerland), or perhaps honouring the Dutch malacologist François Valentijn (Valentinyus), 1656-1727,?

Valentina : (see Chernysheva).

Clare A. Valentine, 1964-, at the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) is a spongiologist.

Lacking information about Valentine in the Gilbert Islands polychaete name Idanthyrsus valentinei Kirtley, 1994.

Lacking information about Valerie? in the European gastropod name Cerithiopsis valeriae Giusti, 1987.

Lacking information about Valero in the gastropod name Odostomia valeroi Bartsch, 1917.

Lacking information about Vales in the amphipod name Melita valesi Karaman, 1955.

Lacking information about Valette in the bivalve name Yoldiella valettei Lamy, 1906. Possibly, however, Adolf Johann Hubert, Freiherr von La Valette Saint George, 1831-1910, may be the honoured person?. One other person, L.H. Valette, was an entomologist.

Barone Rafaello Valiante, 18??-1???, Italian algologist, who published about the cystoseiras of the Gulf of Naples in 1883 [Herponema valiantei (Bornet ex Sauvageau) G. Hamel].

Alexander K. Valkanov, 1904-72, Bulgarian zoologist and protistologist, director of the marine biological station, Varna between 1942-63, professor in Sofia from 1953 [Stenocaris valkanovi Marinov, 1974, Labyrinthula valkanovi J.S. Karling, 1944, Pomoriella valkanovi Golemansky, 1970, Baltoplana valkanovi Ax, 1959, Eurydice valkanovi Bacescu, 1949].

Antonio Valle, 18??-1927? or 1928?, at the Natural History Museum of Trieste (who is not identical with Antonio Della Valle of Naples) published on Adriatic crustaceans and fishes and is honoured in several names of marine creatures, e.g. Lophotaspis vallei (Stossich,1899), Amphibdelloides vallei Llewellyn, 1960, Ancyrocotyle vallei (Parona & Perugia, 1895), Encotyllabe vallei Monticelli, 1907, Bothriocephalus vallei Stossich, 1899, Colobomatus vallei Essafi, Cabral & Raibaut, 1984, Amphithalamus vallei Aguayo & Jaume, 1947. There is also an exact namesake, Dr. Antonio Valle, (20 May - Trieste) 1925-79 (8 Jan. - Bergamo), who was an acarologist and director of the museum in Bergamo and likely related to the first. [Dr. D. Damkaer kindly directed my attention to the fact that A. Valle and A. Della Valle were two different persons].

Mr. Rupert Vallentin, 1859-1934, made several researches on botany and zoology of the Falkland Islands [Sphaerium vallentinianum Melvill & Standen,1904, Staurocladia vallentini (Brown, 1902), Vallentinia Browne, 1902, Cratena vallentini Eliot, 1907]. His father-in-law, Mr. Wickham Bertrand, 18??-19??, aided authors in field research in the Falklands [Savatieria bertrandi Melvill & Standen, 1904].

Dave Valles, 19??-, research assitant at the University of Sn Carlos, Cebu, the Philippines. [Vaceuchelus vallesi  Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006]. (G. Poppe kindly provided this information).

Vallin : (see Wallin).

Antonio Vallisnieri de Vallisnera, 1661-1730, Italian physician and naturalist, who had a professorship in Padua.

Richard A. Van Belle, 1920-, of Sint-Niklaas, Belgium, is honoured in the polyplacophoran name Ischnochiton vanbellei Kaas, 1985. (Dr. D. Eernisse kindly provided much of the information about Van Belle (summer 2001), e.g.: I think he is a retired officer of the Belgian Air Force. He is another amateur malacologist who has specialized on chitons, publishing in 1983 "The Systematic Classification of the Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) in Informations de la Soc. Belge de Malacologie. Ser. 11(1-3): 1-78. Also, Kaas and Van Belle (1985-1994) Monograph of Living Chitons. Vols. 1-5. E.J. Brill, Leiden. and many other important studies of living and fossil chitons either by himself or with Piet Kaas, who died several years ago. As far as I know, Van Belle is still alive).

Dr. Adolf Cornelis Van Bruggen, 1929-, who in 1978 worked at the Dept. of Systematic Zoology and Evolutionary Biology, Rijkmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden, is honoured in the gastropod names Cyclostremiscus vanbruggeni de Jong & Coomans, 1988, Cingula bruggeni Verduin, 1984 & Chrysallida vanbruggeni van Aartsen & Corgan, 1996. (Andrew Vik, Tampa, Florida kindly provided part of this information).

The diatom name Navicula vandamii Schoeman & Archibald, 1987 must likely be a tribute to the Dutch algae researcher Dr, Herman van Dam, 1948?-,

Harley Jones Van Cleave, (5 Oct. - Knoxville, Ill.) 1886-1953 (2 Jan. - Urbana, Ill.), parasitologist (and freshwater malacologist) at the Univ. of Illinois.

The isopod name Hydroniscus vandeli Chardy, 1974 and the prymnesiophycean name Palusphaera vandeli Lecal, 1965 are likely in honour of Albert Vandel, 1894-1980, "Membre de l'Académie des Sciences, Professeur à la Faculté des Sciences de Toulouse". Vandel was a renowned biospeleologist.. (Dr. Riccardo Giannuzzi-Savelli kindly provided this information).

Dr. Domingos Vandelli, 1735-1816, naturalist pioneer of Italian origin in Portugal.

The ostracod name Cytherella vandenboldi Sissingh, 1972 is la tribute to the micropalaeontologist Prof. Willem Aaldert van den Bold, (30 Mar. - Amsterdam) 1921-2000 (20 Oct.) (obituary arrived in 2002 in Revue de Micropaleontologie 45(1) : 69-70 ), from the Netherlands (achieved his PhD at the Univ. of Utrecht), from the 1960s working in USA, where he was professor of Geology in Louisiana [Cytheridella boldi Purper, 1974].

Stany Vanderhoydonck, 19??-, Belgian collector specialising in land snails and active in shell clubs all over Europe. [Calliotropis stanyi  Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006]. (G. Poppe kindly provided this information).

van der Land : (see Land).

Chrysallida vanderlindeni Van Aartsen, Gittenberger & Goud, 2000 was named for Mr. J. Van der Linden, 19??-, of Den Haag, Dutch fellow malacologist.

Prof. Cindy Lee Van Dover, 19??-, after having been an ALVIN pilot for a few years in the beginning of the 1990s, she worked at the Duke Marine Laboratory, Beaufort, NC, later at the Univ. of Alaska, from 1998 at the College of William & Mary, (PhD in 1989 at WHOI), & from 2006 Professor at Duke, is working on hydrotermal vent fauna and has published popular accounts on deep sea biology during the 1990s [Chorocaris vandoverae Martin & Hessler, 1990, Caymanabyssia vandoverae McLean, 1991].

Lacking information about Vanduzee in the gastropod name Triphora vanduzeei F. Baker, 1926.

Lacking information about Vanee? in the diatom name Navicula vaneeii Lange-Bertalot in Witwowski, Lange-Bertalot & Stachura, 1998.

Lacking information about de Vaney in the ophiuroid name Ophiambix devaneyi Paterson, 1985. Possibly Clément Vaney, 1871?-1955 (29 Dec. - at age 84), who (from 1899 on) published on echinoderms, mainly Holothuroidea, together with R. Koehler (q.v.) is honoured. Like Koehler, he seem to have lived in Lyon, where he was adj. Professor in Zoology at the University and kept publishing until at least 1937. Vaney also published on Diptera and Eulimidae. (Cédric Audibert, Centre de Conservation et d'Etude des Collections, at the Museum of Lyon, kindly provided the dates).

Dr. Jackie L. Van Goethem, (9 May) 1943-, "Head of Department of Invertebrates, 'Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen' (Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences), Brussels, Belgium". Secretary of Unitas Malacologica. He has mainly published on non-marine molluscs [Meylia vangoethemi Decraemer & Jensen, 1981, Omalogyra vangoethemi Sleurs, 1983, Actaletes vangoethemi Jacquemart, 1980, Bishopina vangoethemi Wouters, 1981, Chiton vangoethemi Leloup, 1981, Brianola vangoethemi Fiers, 1982, Scalptia vangoethemi Verhecken, 1995, Vaceuchelus vangoethemi  Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006]. Rissoina vangoethemorum Sleurs, 1994 is named after Dr. and Mrs. Jackie L. and Lutgarde Van Goethem-Vanderborght and their children Bart and Ruth who collected the species. (G. Poppe kindly provided one of the eponyms).

Andreas Cornelis Joseph Van Goor, 1881-1925, Dutch algologist at the Zoological Station of Den. Helder [Ollicola vangoorii (Conrad) Vørs, 1992].

Dr. Hans van Haren, 19??-89, member of the former Dutch mollusca working group (but doing most research on zooplankton), is honoured in the gastropod names Granulina vanhareni van Aartsen, Menkhorst & Gittenberger, 1984 and Eulimella vanhareni van Aartsen, Gittenberger & Goud, 1998. A younger exact namesake exists at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research.

Jonkheer Drs. Willem Cornelis van Heurn (20 Febr. – the Hague, the Netherlands), 1887-1972 (6 June – de Wilp, the Netherlands), civil engineer and zoologist. He collected animals and plants where he happened to be from his early youth until his death. He made extensive collections not only in the Netherlands, but also in Surinam (1911) and the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) (1912-14 and 1919-39 – including the New Guinea-expedition 1920-21). In the Dutch East Indies he worked among others at the Phytopathological Institute in Buitenzorg (Bogor), the Laboratory for Sea Research in Batavia (Djakarta) and the Netherlands Indies Medical School in Soerabaja. Almost from the beginning he sent part of his collected material to the Rijksmuseum of Natural History in Leiden ("Naturalis"), which institute received also his entire private collection. Between 1910 and 1968 he has published extensively about his travels and collected material. At least 39 taxa have been named after him: Mammalia – 3; Aves – 4; Reptilia – 2; Pisces – 2; Acari – 1; Crustacea – 1; Hymenoptera – 1; Lepidoptera – 4, Coleoptera – 12; Orthoptera – 3; Onychophora – 1; Vermes – 1 and Mollusca – 4. Aquatic taxa among were the fishes Rhombatractus vanheurni Weber & De Beaufort, 1922  and Apogon heurni Weber & De Beaufort, 1929, the crustacean Paratelphusa (Liotelphusa) vanheurni J. Roux, 1927 and the molluscs †Natica (Naticina) heurni Koperberg, 1931 and Solarium perspectivum heurni Bayer, 1940. (Curator Henk K. Mienis, Tel Aviv Univ., kindly provided all this information).

The diatom name Plagiogrammopsis vanheurckii (Grunow in Van Heurck) Hasle, von Stosch & Syvertsen is of course honouring Henri Ferdinand Van Heurck, 1838-1909.

Thompson Van Hyning, 18??-19??, the founder and from 1914 to -43 the director of the Florida Museum of Natural History, is likely the person honoured in the bivalve names Dinocardium robustum vanhyningi Clench & L.C. Smith, 1944 and Cumingia tellinoides vanhyningi Rehder, 1939 and in the gastropod name Conus jaspideus vanhyningi Rehder, 1944. He was a mollusk enthusiast, who named his children after mollusks.

Professor Ernst Vanhöffen, (15 Nov.) 1858-1918 (14 June), German biologist in Kiel and Zoological Museum, Berlin [Oikopleura vanhoeffeni Lohmann, 1896, Klugeflustra vanhoffeni (Kluge, 1914), Planktonemertes vanhoeffeni Brinkmann, 1915-16, Lumbrineris vanhoeffeni Michaelsen, 1898, Atolla vanhoeffeni Russell, 1957, Pterosperma vanhoeffenii (Jørgensen) Ostenfeld, 1899, Rhynchothalestris vanhoeffeni Brady, 1910, Solmaris vanhoeffeni Neppi & Stasny, 1911, Lucernariopsis vanhoeffeni (Browne, 1910), Atorella vanhoeffeni Bigelow, 1909, Leukon vanhoeffeni Zimmer, 1907, Gigantactis vanhoeffeni Brauer, 1902, Campyloderes vanhoeffeni Zelinka, 1913, Vanhoeffenella Rhumbler, 1905, Boreomysis vanhoeffeni Zimmer, 1914, Bunodactis vanhoeffeni Pax F., 1922, Zeuxo vanhoeffeni Sieg, 1980, Ampharetides vanhoeffeni Ehlers, 1913, Staurotheca vanhoeffeni (Peña Cantero, García, Carrascosa & Vervoort, 1994), Schellenbergia vanhoeffeni (Schellenberg 1926), likely Navicula vanhoffenii Gran].

Prof. Pieter Nicolaas Van Kampen, 1878-1937 (3 July - Leiden), published in 1925 on the Siboga Rhizocephala together with the author of Sacculina vankampeni Boshma, 1931, (who in 1931 succeded Van Kampen as zoology teacher at the Leiden University) but Van Kampen's main interest was perhaps amphibians and reptiles.

Willard Gibbs Van Name, (New Haven) 1872-1959, U.S. zoologist (PhD at Yale Univ. in 1898); tunicate specialist, who also published on land and fresh water isopods and was also an interested ornithologist. He was curator of marine invertebrates at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, but also interested in field ornithology and devoted to the field of conservation problems and in 1929 he published "A Crisis in Conservation", which caused Rosalie Barrow Edge, (3 Nov.) 1877-1962 (30 Nov.), (a relative of Charles Dickens) to become his helper concerning common activities in the biological conservation movement. Privatly Van Name lived a simple bachelor's life. His large monograph "The North and South American Ascidians" arrived in 1945 in Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 84: 1-476 and in 1954 he published on ascidians from the Lund University Chile expedition [Penaeus vannamei Boone, 1931]. One of his siblings, the chemist Ralph Gibbs Van Name, (22 Oct. - New Haven) 1877-1961, published in 1906 a book about the scientific works of his and W. G. Van Name's uncle Josiah Willard Gibbs, (11 Feb.) 1839-1903 (28 Apr.), mathematical physicist at Yale University, best known for developing the theory of thermodynamics. (Dr. Christopher B. Boyko, AMNH, kindly provided the year of Dr. W. G. Van Name's decease).

Prof. Marco Vannini, 1943-, is honoured in the polyplacophoran name Callochiton vanninii Ferreira, 1983. He is full professor of Zoology at the Florence University, Firenze (Italy) and a specialist of crustaceans, especially Decapods. He has been the Director of the Zoological Museum La Specola. (Dr. Gianna Innocenti at the Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze, kindly informed about prof. Vannini).

Henry D. Van Nostrand, 1823-96, US Malacologist.

The Brazilian oceanographer Marta Vannucci, 1921-, who i.a. has published on marine plankton larvae, is honoured in the proseriatan genus name Vannuccia Marcus, 1948 and is possibly also the person honoured in the hydroid genus name Vannucia Brinckmann-Voss, 1967.

The hydromedusa Spectacularia vanoppenae Gershwin, 2005 is in honour of the AIMS (Australian Institute of Marine Science) scientist Dr. Madeleine van Oppen, 19??-, who achieved her PhD at Univ. of Groningen in the Netherlands in 1995.

Petrus ("Piet") Leonardus van Pel, (8 Dec., Egmond aan Zee, the Netherlands) 1931-, former officer in the Dutch Navy. While in the Navy he had the opportunity to collect intensively marine molluscs over the whole world, however especially in New Guinea and the Netherlands Antilles. Since his retirement he works regularly as a volunteer in the Department of Malacology of the Zoological Museum of Amsterdam (ZMA) of which he is an honorary associate. He is in the middle of transferring his extensive private collection (7000 species, more than 12000 lots) to that institute and has been awarded the prestigious "Natura Peperit Scientiam"-medal from the ZMA in May 2006. He is a longtime member of the Dutch Malacological Society and for years he was a corresponding editor of "Hawaiian Shell News" until it was transformed in an electronic-journal. The following names of marine molluscs have been given in his honour: Manzonia pelorum Moolenbeek & Faber, 1987; Alvania peli Moolenbeek & Rolán, 1988; Rissoina vanpeli de Jong & Coomans, 1988 (now Schwartziella vanpeli); Conus peli Moolenbeek, 1996 and Nassarius vanpeli Kool, 2005. (Curator Henk K. Mienis, Tel Aviv Univ., kindly provided all this information).

Van Straelen : (see Straelen).

Robert Van Syoic, 19??-, Department of Invertebrate Zoology & Geology, Calif. Acad. of Sciences, San Francisco, found the type material of Cavernularia vansyoici Williams, 2005 close to the Aleutian Islands.

The London (Paternoster Row) book publisher John Van Voorst, 1804-98, is honoured in the algal genus Vanvoorstia Harvey, who helped the author (and other naturalists) publishing their books.

René Vanwalleghem, 19??-, Belgian conchologist, active in the group of collectors situated in and around Oostende for several decades. Specialised in Thailand mollusca. [Gibbula vanwalleghemi  Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006]. (G. Poppe kindly provided this information).

Mr. Joaquin de La Vara, 19??-, of Gibara, Cuba, collected specimens of Latirus varai Bullock, 1970.

Lacking information about the eponym in the sponge name Mycale varpachowski Schwartschevski, 1905. Possibly a tribute to Nikolai Arkadievich Varpakhovskij, 1862-19??, who published on fish fauna?

Marcus Terentius Varro, (Reate) 116-23 B.C. (Rome), (with the additional name Reatinus after his birth place), the most learned person of the Roman golden age, belonging to an old Sabinean family. He had been an officer in Pompeius' troups and was a close friend of Pompeius. His last war duty was in France 49 B.C., when he had to give up for Gaius Iulius Caesar, (12 July) 100-44 (15 Mar.) B.C., who was well aware of Varro's intellectual capacity and put him on a duty to collect literature to a city library for Rom. Varro not only gathered literature, but also had an almost inbelievable capacity to publish himself on almost every kind of items and had evidently read most of the availavle books of his time. He produced ca 74 works in around 620 books, most of them sorrily lost today. He was well respected among other intellectuals of his time, like Titus Pomponius Atticus, 110 (or 109?)-32 (31 Mar.) B.C., and Pomponius' close friend Marcus Tullius Cicero (3 Jan.) 106-43 (7 Dec.) B.C., and did himself dedicate the last 20 (of 25) books of his De lingua latina (with i.a. etymological explanations) to Cicero and Cicero answered by dedicating his Academica to Varro. They were friends, but not very close, although they shared many views and Varro is sometimes said to have been even more [conservatively] Roman than Cicero. After the murder of Caesar both ended up on the proscription lists of Caesars old officer and distant relative Marcus Antonius, 83-31 B.C., but unlike Cicero and most of his family, Varro was saved by a friend. His writing on natural history was a small part of his publishing, but e.g. Res rusticae in 4 books has been saved and is mainly dealing with agriculture and in book 4 one can read about i.a. fish breeding and bee keeping and the bee parasite Varroa Oudemans, 1904 must be named for him. He somtimes delivered practical advice like Varro's rule of banquets: the number of guests of a succesful feast should not be less than the number of graces (3) and fewer than the number of muses (9), likely something he had learned from own practical experiences. Although perhaps not a primary person in marine biology, he was influential through Gaius Plinius Secundus (q.v.), who often used information from Varro in his Naturalis Historia.

Lacking information about Vascomarques in the hydroid name Crypthelia vascomarquesi Zibrowius & Cairns, 1992.

Lacking information about Vasina? in the isopod name Eurycope vasinae Malyutina & Kussakin, 1996.

Lacking information about Vassal in the fish name Parophidion vassali Risso, 1810.

Lacking information about Vasseur in the mysid name Anisomysis vasseuri Ledoyer, 1974.

Dr. Stella Vladinirovna Vas(s)ilenko, 19??-, Zoological Institute, St Petersburg, a disciple of Gurjanova (q.v.), studying amphipods (caprellids), euphausids and decapods.

Lacking information about Vathelet in the gastropod name Patella vatheleti Pilsbry, 1891.

Aristocle Vatova, (Capodistria) 1897-1992, was engaged at the Marine Research Station, Rovinj - dealing with phycology, invertebrate taxonomy and benthic biocoenology - between around 1923-43. He also collected in Eritrea. [Mitrella vatovai Coen, 1933, Psammobia vatovai Coen, 1933, Epizoanthus vatovai Pax & Lochter, 1935, Ceramium vatovai Schiffner].

The polyplacophoran name Leptochiton vaubani Kaas, 1991 and the gastropod names Volutomitra vaubani Cernohorsky, 1982, Conus vaubani Rockel, & Moolenbeek 1995 & Mareleptopoma vaubani Le Renard & Bouchet, 2000 are named for a French research ship, operateing from 1965 until the late 1980s by ORSTOM (Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique d'Outre-Mer which has been renamed IRD, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, some years ago). The ship itself was named after Sebastien Vauban, 1633-1707, a French military architect, famous for building fortifications all around France. (Dr. Hans Turner, Casa La Conchiglia, Rovia, Switzerland, kindly added the last species and informed about which person, who is honoured in the ship's name).

Jean Pierre Étienne Vaucher, 1763-1841, Swiss clergyman and botanist, professor of church history at the university of Geneva, particularly interested in fresh water algae [Vaucheria A.P. de Candolle, 1801].

The gastropod name Nassarius vaucheri Pallary, 1906, is most likely a tribute to the French / Algerian malacologist Henry Vaucher, 18??-19??, because this Vaucher collected, when for several years being based in the Tanger region, in the neigbourhood and on trips, e.g. to the Atlas mountains in 1901, for - among others - Pallary.

Reginald E. Vaughan, 1895-1987, was a Welsh botanist who lived in Mauritius from 1923, i.a. collecting algae there.

Thomas Wayland Vaughan, (20 Sep. - Jonesville, Texas) 1870-1952 (16 Jan. - Washington, D.C.), US zoologist/palaeontologist and director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, who published on e.g. scleractinians, foraminiferans and tintinnids, at least between 1896-1945 [Acropora vaughani Wells, 1954, Concentrotheca vaughani Cairns, 1991, Deltocyathus vaughani Yabe & Eguchi, 1932, Flabellum vaughani Cairns, 1984, Fungia vaughani Boschma, 1923, Porites vaughani Crossland, 1952, Psammocora vaughani Yabe & Sugiyama, 1936, likely Thelepus vaughani Gravier, 1906] (The Director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library, Peter Brueggeman, kindly provided the information about Vaughan's directorship).

Lacking infomation about T.K. Vaught, 19??-, in the muricid name Vaughtia Houart, 1995. Kay Cunningham Vaught, 1916-95, is an US malacological namesake.

The copepod Monstrilla careli Suárez-Morales & Dias, 2000 is dedicated to Dr. Jan Carel von Vaupel Klein, (5 Apr.) 1945-, Leiden University, "using his first name (Carel) Latinized, for his outstanding contributions to the knowledge of the morphology of marine copepods" [Pontella kleini Mulyadi, 2003]. His daughter Lisette is memorized in the copepod name Euchirella lisettae von Vaupel Klein, 1989 and his wife Pauline is honoured in the copepod name Euchirella paulinae Von Vaupel Klein, 1980. (Dr. von Vaupel Klein himself found this note and kindly provided the date and some other information in Sep. 2005, e.g. that he now is early retired).

The French chemist Baptiste Nicolas Louis Vauquelin, 1763-1829, is likely the person honoured in the crab name Pilumnopeus vauquelinii (Auduoin, 1826) and in the gastropod name Mangelia vauquelini Payraudeau, 1826, because he had malacological interests.

Lacking information about Vauris in the gastropod name Cerithiopsis vaurisi Jay & Drivas, 2002.

Abel Vautier, 1???-1863?, French malacologist, is honoured in the gastropod name Conus vautieri L. C. Kiener, 1849.

Lacking information about Vavaos in the gastropod name Polinices vavaosi Le Guillou in L. A. Reeve, 1855.

Jean Baptiste Marie Albert Vayssière, 1854-1942, French zoologist, professor at the University of Marseille and director of Laboratoire Marion between 1921-24, particularly interested in opisthobranchs [Conus vayssierei Pallary, 1906, Theta vayssierei Dautzenberg, 1925, Spurilla vayssierei J.C. Garcia & Cervera, 1985, Lanicides vayssierei (Gravier, 1911)]. (Andrew Vik, Tampa, Florida kindly provided the full name).

Lacking information about Vedelsby in the gastropod name Diaphana vedelsbyae Schiøtte, 1989.

Bauke van der Veen, 1930-, Dutch malacologist, not related? to J. van Veen, a compatriot presenting the van Veen grab in 1933 (possbly identical with the engeneer Johan van Veen, 1893-1959,)?.

Lacking information about Veil in the copepod name Ectinosoma veili Labbé, 1926

Mr. J. Veitch, 19??-, of Port Lincoln, Victoria, [Brechites veitchi Smith, 1971], who collected type series specimens. Possibly? identical with the US? speleologist John D. Veitch, 19??-,?

Pseudocyclopina veitkoehlerae Elwers, Arbizu & Fiers, 2001 was named for the cold water diving colleague of the authors, Gritta Veit-Köhler, (24 Nov.) 1967-, Universität Oldenburg, "who collected the specimen in the Potter Cove and kindly placed it at our disposal for this study".

Prof. Frantiišek Vejdovský (also known as Frantisk Vejdovsému) 1849-1939, at the Univ. of Prag, Czechoslovakian zoologist, who published on a broad spectrum of invertebrates [Vejdovskya von Graff, 1905].

Lacking information about the Russian diatom worker N.V. Vekhov in the diatom name Navicula vekhovii Lange-Bertalot & Genkal, 1999.

The W African fish name Schedophilus velaini (Sauvage, 1879) is likely a tribute to the French malacologist Charles Vélain, 1845-1925.

Lacking information about Velasco in the gastropod name Emarginula velascoi Rehder, 1980.

Carmen Velasquez, 19??-, Philippine fish parasitologist.

The marine gastropod Pusiolina veldhoveni de Jong & Coomans, 1988 is named after the physician and shell collector Michel van Veldhoven, 19??.

Lacking information about Velez in the E Pacific skate name Raja velezi Chirichigno F., 1973.

Lacking information about Velie in the gastropod name Hyalina veliei (Pilsbry, 1896).

Henry Vendryes, 1822-1907, Jamaican Malacologist.

Dr. Leonardus Alphonsus Wilhelmus Cornelis Venmans, 1898-1959, Dutch Malacologist.

Chevalier Jean Baptiste Vérany, 1800-1865, French pharmacist, born in Nice, where he later established a natural history museum; interested in natural history, especially cephalopods. In Genova he published a catalogue about the marine invertebrates of the area in 1846 and in 1851 he published on Mediterranean cephalopods. He published partly together with his disciple Vogt (see Fritz Müller) [Rhodope veranii Kölliker, 1847, Symbolophorus veranyi (Moreau, 1888), Abralia veranyi (Rüppell, 1844), Chiroteuthis veranyi (de Férussac, 1835), Verania Krohn, 1847].

Lacking information about the palaeontologist Verbeek, 18??-19??, in the scleractinean name Favia verbeeki ?, 192?

Petrus Verberne (also known as Frère Fredericus), (23 Nov. - Asten, the Netherlands) 1912-98 (31 May - Cuyk, the Netherlands), was a member of the "Congregation of the Brothers of the Christian Schools" and worked as a teacher in Aruba, the Netherlands Antilles (1937-92). For his educational and social activities on Aruba he was decorated both by the Pope and the Dutch Queen. From about 1962 until 1992 he collected and studied marine molluscs on Aruba. He was especially interested in micro-shells. He published a single, popular article on molluscs, but contributed as co-operator to a book by De Jong & Coomans (1988) on the 'Marine Gastropods from Curaçao, Aruba and Bonaire'. Although he was never a member of the Dutch Malacological Society, he maintained close connections with some of its members, but even more with the Zoological Museum of Amsterdam (ZMA). Shortly after his return to the Netherlands he donated his collection to that Institute. Almost until his sudden death he visited regularly the ZMA in order to work on his collection. So far two marine gastropods from the Caribbean has been named after him: Crassispira verbernei De Jong & Coomans, 1988 and Triphora verbernei Moolenbeek & Faber, 1989 (now transferred to the genus Cheirodonta). (Dr. Henk K. Mienis, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, kindly provided this information).

Sir Joseph Cooke Verco, (1 Aug. - Fullarton) 1851-1933 (19 July - Adelaide), Australian physician (helped found the Medical School at the Univ. of Adelaide and lectured in medicine there between 1887-1915) and malacologist, who dredged largely in South Australian waters. President of the Royal Society of South Australia between 1903-21. Honorary Curator of Mollusca of the South Australian Museum from 1814 until his death. [Leda verconis Tate, 1891, Vercoia Baker, 1904, Sepia vercoi W. Adam, 1979, Zoila friendii vercoi Schilder, 1930, Acanthochites verconis Torr & Ashby, Chiton verconis Torr & Ashby, Ischnochiton verconis Torr, Verconia verconis Basedow & Hedley, 1905, Tambja verconis Basedow & Hedley, 1905].

Lacking information about Verdicio in the gastropod name Doto verdicioi Ortea & Urgorri, 1978, but perhaps not a person's name but geographical - from Verdicio, Asturias, Spain?

Eng. Adriaan Verduin, 1921-88, Dutch amateur malacologist [Aclis verduini van Aartsen, Menkhorst & Gittenberger 1984, Alvania verduini van Aartsaen, 1983, Odostomia verduini van Aartsen, 1987, Laeviphitus verduini van Aartsen, Bogi & Giusti, 1989, Eulimella verduini van Aartsen, Gittenberger & Goud, 1998].

Lacking information about Veren? in the gastropod name Cornisepta verenae McLean & Geiger, 1998.

André Verhecken, 1943-, malacologist with a special interest in Cancellaridae, at the Malacology Dept., Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels [Zeadmete verheckeni Petit & Harasewych, 2000]. (Andrew Vik, Tampa, Florida kindly provided this information).

Mr. Gordon Carel Verhoef, 19??-, South Africa, provided financial assistance in connection with the detection of Trivia verhoefi Gosliner & Liltved, 1982.

M. Verhoeven member of the former Dutch mollusca working group, is honoured in the gastropod name Odostomia (Odostomia) verhoeveni van Aartsen, Gittenberger & Goud, 1998.

Lacking information about Verity in the bivalve name Protocuspidaria verityi Allen & Morgan, 1981.

Lacking data about Theodor Anton Verkrüzen, 18??-1???, German / British professional shell collector, cooperating with especially Dr. Kobelt (q.v.) at the Senckenberg Museum in Schwanheim (Frankfurt am Main), who in 1872 published a short paper about a dredging-excursion to Iceland and in 1871 had dredged in Hardangerfjord, Norway and returned to Norway, where he collected during autumn 1875. He also visited the Fiji Islands and Australia and dredged off New Foundland in 1876 and again in the summer 1880. He kept publishing at least until 1882 [Colus verkruezeni (Kobelt, 1876), Buccinum verkruzeni Kobelt, 1883, Turbonilla verkruezeni. Clessin, S., 1902], (also the slug Geomalacus maculosus Allman, 1843, var. verkruzeni Heynemann, 1873)] .Together with Moritz Anton Verkrüzen (a brother?) he had a Designers company in London and they had a patent on painting on velvet, cloth, etc. with gold, silver or other metal paints. (Dr. Anders Warén kindly mentioned that T.A. Verkrützen in the foreword of his work from 1872. "Norwegen: seine Fjorde und Naturwunder: eine naturwissenschaftlice Reise unternommen im Sommer 1871" is mentioning that he has lived abroad during 42 years, so he must have been born before 1830 and that he he lived at least until 1884, but the compiler also having seen references to Verkrüzen 1887, but not later).

Lacking information about Verlaque in the red algal name Osmundea verlaquei Furnari.

Eatonina vermeuleni Moolenbeek, 1986 was named for Mr. J. Vermeulen, (likely Jaap J. Vermeulen, 1955-, Chairman NMV (Dutch Malacological Society)), who collected specimens [likely Acantholaimus vermeuleni Muthumba & Vincx, 1997]. However, another malacologically interested compatriot and namesake was Frederik Pieter Vermeulen, 1870-1964, who was instrumental in the growth of the IJmuiden fishing port..

Vernberg : (see Winona).

Lacking information about Vernede in the scaphopod name Pictodentalium vernedei (Hanley in Sowerby, 1860).

Johannes Hendrik Vernhout, 1866-1955, Dutch Malacologist.

Vero : (see Alonso Ferreira)

Dr. John E.N. (Charlie) Veron, 19??-, well-known coral taxonomist at Australian Institute of Marine Science in Townsville, Queensland, is honoured in the coral names Favia veroni Moll & Best, 1984 and Truncatoflabellum veroni Cairns, 1998. He has himself, described around 20% of existing scleractinean species. He is planning to make three resources freely downloadable over internat: Corals of the World - a 3 volume colour compendium of corals, Coral ID - an electronic key to species & Coral Geographic - an electronic global database and maps of species.

The French naturalist and taxidermist Pierre Jules Verreaux, (24 Aug.) 1807-73, who i.a. worked in South Africa, is honoured in the gastropod name Olivella verreauxii (Duclos, 1857) was brother of Joseph Alexis Verreeux, 1???-1868, who lived in Cape Town. [likely Jasus verreauxi (H. Milne Edwards, 1851) & Culicia verreauxi (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849)]. P.J. Verreaux also collected a lot of natural history objects in Australia and Tasmania during the 1840s. Another malacologically interested compatriot, ornithologist and namesake was Jean Baptiste Édouard Verreaux, 1810-68, who was a brother of Jules and Alexis. Their father's name was also Édouard. P.J. V. already at age 12 arrived at Cape of Good Hope in company with an uncle, stayed there in 2 years, after which he returned to France, studying under Cuvier and Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. In 1825 he returned to Cape of Good Hope, where he collected together with i.a. Sir A. Smith (q.v.) and later his brother Édouard arrived and helped him to handle specimens. In 1832 these brothers again were collecting together. In 1837 P.J. V. travelled collecting in Cochin-China and the Philippines. In 1864 P.J.V. succeeded Florent Prévost (who died in 1870) as assistant naturalist at the Paris Museum. (Cédric Audibert, Muséum, CCEC, Lyon, kindly provided some corrections).

A.E. Verrill : (see Bush).

Alpheus Hyatt Verrill, 1871-1954 (Nov.), US naturalist, malacologist, photographer and author (wrote 105 books on history and travel). Bearing in mind that his first names is that of an US naturalist (see Hyatt), who a few years before A.H. Verrilll's birth studied for L. Agassiz at Harvard together with i.a. A.E. Verrill (see Bush), he was the son of the latter.

Lacking information about Verrycken in the W African fish name Parablennius verryckeni (Poll, 1959).

Lacking information about Verscheld in the nematode name Acantholaimus verscheldi Muthumba & Vincx, 1997.

Lacking information about Verschuren in the cestodan name Echinocotyle verschureni (Baer, 1959), but likely a tribute to Jacques Verschuren, 1???-, Belgian zoologist, active during the 1950s, later chief biologist in the Park Albert, Congo.

Dr. Jakob Verseveldt, (8 Feb.) 1903-87 (29 Mar.), Zwolle, The Netherlands, identified many octocorals, which were the hosts for copepods, e.g. Acanthomolgus versveldti (Humes & Ho, 1968). [Verseveldtia Williams 1990, Sinularia verseveldti van Ofwegen, 1996, Protodendron verseveldti Bayer, 1995, Xenia verseveldti Benayahu, 1990, Telestula verseveldti Weinberg, 1990, Alcyonium verseveldti (Benayahu, 1982)].

Jan Versluys Junk jr., 1873-1939, Dutch zoologist who had worked in Giessen, Germany (where he graduated) and Utrech was invited by count Dalmas (q.v.) to take part in the Caribbean expedition with "Chazalie", after wich he took part in the Siboga expedition as assistent at the Amsterdam Univ. to Weber (q.v.) (publishing on the gorgonids of the expedition in 1902), became the first professor of Zoology at Gent University (1916-25), later prof. of Zoology and Palaeontology at the Univ. of Wien (Vienna) (1925-39).

The amphipod name Ampelisca vervecei Bellan-Santini & Kaim-Malka, 1977 is likely not named for a person, but for Vervece, a locality near Sorrento in the Naples area. (Dr. Riccardo Giannuzzi-Savelli kindly provided this information).

Prof. Willem Vervoort, 1917-, at the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie in Leiden, Netherlands, is one of our great masters of copepods. However, those who are overwhelmed by his numerous and excellent works in this field are always surprised to hear that his REAL love and work is with hydroids. Dr. Vervoort has 18 species of copepods named after him, e.g. Macrochiron vervoorti Humes & De Maria, 1966, Patagoniaella vervoorti Pallares, 1968, Epicalymma vervoorti Heron, English & Damkaer, 1984 , Ectinosoma vervoorti Soyer, 1972, Esola vervoorti Huys & Lee, 2000, Collocheres vervoorti Humes, 1998, Enhydrosoma vervoorti Fiers, 1987, Mixtocalanus vervoorti (Park 1980), Nothobomolochus vervoorti Avdeev, 1986, Holobomolochus vervoorti R. Cressey, 1983, Scaphocalanus vervoorti Park, 1982, Cotylemyzon vervoorti Stock, 1982 and Euchaeta vervoorti Park, 1978 [the hydrocoral Distichopora vervoorti Cairns & Hoeksema, 1998, the hydroid Eudendrium vervoorti Marques & Migotto, 1998, the hydroid Sertularella vervoorti El Beshbeeshy, 1991, the hydroid Euphysa vervoorti Brinkmann-Voss & Arai, 1998, the hydroid Eudendrium vervoorti Marques & Migotto, 1998, the hydroid Sertularia vervoorti Migotto & Calder, 1998, Oswaldella vervoorti Pena Cantero & Garcia Carrascosa, 1998, the sponge Desmapsamma vervoorti van Soest, 1998, the hydroid Schizotricha vervoorti Pena Cantero, 1998, the hydroid Bougainvillia vervoorti Bouillon, 1995, the hydroid Papilionella vervoorti (El Beshbeeshy 1991), the octocoral Dendronephthya (Roxasia) vervoorti Verseveldt & van Ofwegen, 1991, the hydroid Thecocarpus myriophyllum vervoorti Stepan'yants, 1979, the octocoral Sinularia vervoorti Verseveldt, 1977]. (Dr. David Damkaer kindly supplied this information and Dr. Bert Hoeksema kindly corrected a description year and pointed out that Zoologische Verhandelingen 323 "Commemorative volume for the 80th bitrhday of Willem Vervoort in 1997" edited by J.C. den Hartog was honouring this researcher).

Dr. Jan Verwey, 1899-1981, Dutch zoologist [Psittacorhynchus verweyi den Hartog,1968, Acropora (Acropora) verweyi Veron & Wallace, 1984, Platygyra verweyi Wijsman-Best, 1976, Mitra verweyi Knudsen, 1970; type locality: Bali Sea, Indonesia, 200 m, mud bottom; ranges from East Africa to Vietnam and the Philippines, in rather deep water from about 150 to 650 m]. (Dr. Hans Turner, Casa La Conchiglia, Rovia, Switzerland, kindly added the last species).

The gastropod Nannodiella vespuciana (d'Orbigny, 1842)and the bivalve Tellina vespuciana d'Orbigny, 1842 were likely named for the Italian traveller Amerigo Vespucci, (Florence) ca 1454-1512 (Seville), who's first name became used to name a continent (by the German scholar Waldseemüller), likely because Vespucci claimed that he reached South America one year before Columbus reached the southern part of the continent on his 3:rd trip, i.e. already in 1497.

Lacking information about Vespucci in the amphipod name Labriphimedia vespuccii K.H. Barnard, 1931.

Lacking information about Vetault in the pagurid name Pagurus vetaultae Harvey & McLaughlin, 1991

Lacking information about Vibe in the tunicate name Synoicum vibei Lützen, 1959.

Vicdan : (see Victor Dan).

vicmanoui : (see Suduiraut for Victor and Manou).

Lacking information about Victor in the isopod name Leptanthura victori Negoescu, 1985.

Victor in Vigtorniella : (see Zaika)

Lacking information about Victoria in the diatom name Nitzschia levidensis var. victoriae (Grunow) Cholnoky).

The gastropod name Conus vicweei Old, 1973 is named for Vic Wee, 19??-, amateur conchologist. (Dr. Riccardo Giannuzzi-Savelli kindly provided this information).

Crisiliaa vidali Templado & Rolan, 1993 was named for Enrique Vidal, 19??-, a founder of Società Espanola de Malacologia. An older compatriot malacologist and namesake was Lluis Marian Vidal i Carreras, 1842-1922.

Lacking information about Vidal in the amphipod name Neoischyrocerus vidali Ortiz & Lalana, 2002, - likely not honouring the French (at MNHN, Paris) Cardiidae researcher Jacques Vidal, 19??-2006 (Sep.), but possibly Lluis Marian Vidal i Carreras (see above) .

Lacking information about Vidler in the gastropod names Simnia aequalis vidleri (Sowerby, 1881) and Delonovolva aequalis vidleri (Sowerby, 1881).

Lacking information about Vidovic in the bryozoan name Amathia vidovici (Heller, 1867).

Lacking information about Vidovich in the diatom name Nitzschia vidovichii Grunov, 1862.

José M. Viéitez, 19??-, who has published on Iberian benthos, is honoured in the polychaete name Grubeosyllis vieitezi (San Martin, 1984).

Dr. Karl Heinrich Viets, 1882-1961, researcher from Bremen of water living Acarina (including halacarids) [Rhombognathus karlvietsi Bartsch, 1975].

Dr. Imm(anuel) Vigeland, 1917-, Kristiansand, Norway. Travelling skilled bryozoologist. He is the youngest son of the painter artist Emanuel Vigeland, 1875-1948, brother of the very well known Gustav Vigeland, 1869-1943, creator of the Vigeland Sculpture Park in Oslo. Imm Vigeland very often spent years travelling the seas and exotic countries, collecting bryozoans and other animals with a small dredge in his luggage, which when not used as a dredge, was used as one of his luggage bags. He also learned to speak exotic languages, e.g. Malay, fluently and became involved in the cryptozoologial searchiing of "Bigfoot". Honouring his name is Ophiothrix vigelandi A.M. Clark, 1968, like e.g. at least one spider species.

The gastropod names Gibberula vignali (Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1896) & Joculator vignali Jay & Drivas, 2002, may possibly be a tribute to the biological illustrator Pierre Victor Louis Vignal, 1855-1925 or more likely to the French malacologist Louis Vignal, 1849-1941,?.

Nicholas Aylward Vigors, (Old Leighlin, County Carlow) 1785-1840 (26 Oct.), politician and the zoologist born in Ireland and educated in England, who first used the ending -idae for families of birds.

Vigtor in Vigtorniella : (see Zaika)

Lacking information about Dr. Camille Viguier, 1850?-1???, at the Station zoologique d'Alger?,in the amphipod name Tethylembos viguieri (Chevreux, 1911) and the copepod name Phyllognathopus viguieri (Maupas, 1892). (The last name is likely a courtesy recompense for the polychaete name Maupasia Viguier, 1886). He was likely a relative of Alexandre Viguier, 1790-1867, French bookseller and and botanist of Montpellier, who is honoured in the the genus Viguiera, Humboldt, Bonpland & Knuth (a Compositeae).

Vikram in the Myxozoan name Leptotheca vikrami Tripathi,1948 is likely honouring the Vikram University, India.

Lacking information about Vilaevelebit in the hydroid name Tiaropsidium vilaevelebiti (Hadzi, 1915).

Curtis Nathaniel Vilas, 1894-1976, and his wife Naomi Agnes Rowe Vilas, 1907-89, were Florida malacologists.

Lacking information about Vilela in the copepod name Eudactylina vilelai Nunes-Ruivo, 1956.

Who is Vilhelmina in the isopod name Tole vilhelminae (Stephensen, 1913)?

Antonio Villa, 1806-85, and Giovanni Battista Villa, 1810-87, Italian malacological brothers.

Villalobos : (see Figueroa).

The gastropod name Raphitoma villaria Pusateri & Giannuzzi-Savelli, 2008 is in honour of Alberto Villari, 19??-, amateur conchologist from Messina. (Dr. Riccardo Giannuzzi-Savelli, Palermo, kindly provided this information).

Felix Villeneuve, 1???-19??, published together with his wife? Simone Villeneuve, 1???-19??, on protoctists during the 1930s.

Lacking information about Villepin in the gastropod name Conus villepini Fischer & Bernardi, 1857.

François Charles Alfred Villot, 18??-1???, published in 1875 two works on freeliving and parasitical helminths from the Bretagne (Brittany) coast. He published at least from 1868 on and kept publishing at least until 1891 and was interested also in physics and methaphysics [Odontophora villoti Luc & de Coninck, 1959, Polygordius villoti Perrier,1875].

Calliostoma vilvensi Poppe, 2004 is honouring Claude Vilvens, 19??-, Belgian teacher and conchologist specialised in Trochidae. Active in the Société Belge de Malacologie. [Calliotropis vilvensi  Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006]. (Guido T. Poppe kindly provided this information).

Gérard Vincent, 1824-99, Belgian Malacologist. A compatriot malacologist and namesake was Émile Gérard Vincent, 1860-1928, possibly his son?

Lacking information about Vincent in the actinian name Epiactis vincentina Carlgren O., 1939, described from the Scottish "Scotia" Expedition 1902-04 to the Antarctic area. Possibly also the Gulf catshark Asymbolus vincenti (Zeitz, 1908) (from south Australia) may honour the same person and possibly also the Western shovelnose ray Aptychotrema vincentiana (Haacke, 1885) (from W & S Australia)?

Decio Vinciguerra, 1856-1934, Italian ichthyologist from Genova [Vinciguerria Jordan & Evermann in Goode & Bean, 1895].

Magda Vincx, 1955-, nematode researcher at the Univ. of Ghent, Belgium, is honoured in the nematode name Ptycholaimellus vincxae Jensen & Nehring, 1992.

Lacking information about Dr. Peter J. Vine, 19??-, who has published on Spirorbiidae and the Red Sea fauna, in the polychaete name Vinearia Knight-Jones, 1984.

The gastropod name Inodrillia vinki de Jong & Coomans, 1988 is likely honouring Dr. D.L.N. Vink, 19??-, from South America. (His namesake, Dr. Rob (R.J.) Vink, malacologist at The Netherlands Natural History Museum, Rotterdam kindly provided this information).

Dr. Nina Georgievna Vinogradova, (30 May) 1928-97 (10 Mar.), Russian marine biologist and oceanologist, a student and follower of the academician Lev Alexandrovich Zenkevitch (q.v.), PhD in 1951, working mainly on deep sea biogeography and fauna, particularly on ascidians at the Institute of Oceanology, Moscow [Meroscalpellum vinogradovae (Zevina) Zevina, 1978, Octacnemus vinogradovae Sanamyan & Sanamyan, 1999, Amaroucium vinogradovae Beniaminson 1974 (synonym of Aplidium glabrum (Verrill, 1871)), Corynascidia vinogradovae Sanamyan, 1998, Neoarcturus vinogradovae Kussakin & Vasina, 1997, Pourtalesia vinogradovae Mironov, 1995, Harmothoe vinogradovae Averintsev, 1978, Choanostomellia vinogradovae Murina, 1978]. Her son Dr. Georgyi (Egor) Mikhailovich Vinogradov, 1965-, is also a biological oceanographer, working on amphipods in Moscow at the Severtsov Institute. He has worked on hyperiids, scavenging amphipods and the area of mud volcanoes, etc. He has dived with the bathyscaph rather much, i.a. at the wreck of the submarine Konsomolets at a depth of ca 1000 meters close to the Bear Island. He named the ammphipod species Trischizostoma tanjae G. Vinogradov, 1991 after his wife, Tanya Vinogradova, 1965-, who is a botanist and is working on boreal orchids. His father, Prof. Mikhail Evgenevich Vinogradov, 1927-, Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Moscow, published a monograph on hyperoid amphipods together with Volkov and Semenova (English translation in 1996) and also published several essential works on deep sea amphipods together with Birstein (q.v.) [Proscina vinogradovi Shih & Hendrycks, 1996, Neolithodes vinogradovi Macpherson, 1988, Scionella vinogradovi (Uschakov 1955), Calocalanus vinogradovi Shmeleva, 1987, Manningia vinogradovi Makarov, 1978]? A namesake, Prof. K. A. Vinogradov, 1???-, (Possibly Konstantin Aleksandrovich Vinogradov?) worked at the hydrobiological station in Odessa between 1955-71 and another namesake, Boris Stepanovich Vinogradov, 1891-1958, was working on mammals (Prof. Wim Vader, Tromsø, kindly provided much of this information and Dr. G. Vinogradov himself also kindly provided i.a. his and his wifes dates).

Paul Percy Viosca, Jr., (New Orleans, LA) 1892-1961, Lousiana ichthyologist and herpetologist, who i.a. published "Principles of Bullfrog Culture", New Orleans, La., 1931, is likely the person honoured in the penaeid name Solenocera vioscai Burkenroad.

Virchow : (see Sczelkov).

The Swedish admiral and diplomat Christian Adolf Virgin, 1797-1870, who was the captain of Eugenie during the circumnavigation 1851-53 is honoured in the polychaete name Phragmatopoma virgini Kinberg, 1867.

Virginie in the scaphopod name Episiphon virginieae Scarabino, 1995 (and some other names) : (see Heros).

The gastropod name Turbonilla viscainoi Bartsch, 1917 is likely a tribute to Sebastian Vizcaino (sometimes spelled Viscaino), 1548-1643, : (see Vizcaino)

Pierre Vitiello, 19??-, professeure a l'Universitè de Provence, Aix en Provence, France, is honoured in the nematode name Prochaetosoma vitielloi Allen & Noffsinger, 1978 and the copepod name Pontostratiotes vitielloi Dinet, 1978. (Dr. Riccardo Giannuzzi-Savelli kindly provided this information).

Vitjaz/ Vityaz in the ophiuroid name Amphiophiura bullata vitjazi Litvinova, 1971, in the ostracod name Paraconchoecia vitjazi (Rudjakov, 1962), in the tanaid name Cryptocope vitjazi Kudinova-Pasternak, 1982, in the bivalve names Spinula vityazi Filatova, 1964, Saturnia vityazi Filatova, 1964 and in the siphonophoran name Frillagalma vityazi Daniel, 1966 must be named from the expedition vessel with this name, meaning "Knight". The ship wos initially a dry-cargo vessel "Mars", but was re-equipped into a research vessel and renamed to be the "Vityaz" in honour of the Russian sailing-propeller corvette, commanded by the Russian Admiral Stepan Osipovich Makarov during its circumnavigation, although another prropeller driven ship by that name had already earlier been used by Miklucho-Maklaj (q.v.) on his trip to New Guinea.

Lacking information about Vitoria in the holothuroid name Psolus vitoriae Tommasi, 1971.

The calanoid name Calocalanus vivesi Shmeleva, 1979 is named for Prof. Francisco Vives, (Oct. - Mallorca) 1926-, who worked mainly on Mediterranean and Atlantic plankton, particulary Copepodes. For a long time he worked in Barcelona at Instituto de Investigaciones Pesqueras, Pases National, Barcelona-3, then till pension he worked at Instituto Espanol de Oceanograpfia (Muelle Pelaire P.O. Box 291, Palma de Mallorca, Baleares, Spain). He started to work on teleosts, continuing with phytoplankton and later zooplankton [Acartia vivesei Unal & al., 2005]. (Olga Akimova, Head of library of the Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, Sevastopol, kindly provided this information and the photo).

Lacking information about Vives in the gastropod name Turbonilla vivesi Hertlein & Strong, 1951.

The harpacticoid name Attheyella (Chappuisiella) vivianii Ebert & Noodt, 1975 is honouring Prof. Carlos Viviani, 19??-, who earlier was stationed at the Instituto de Zoología, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia.

Domenico Viviani, 1772-1840, collector of natural history objects.

Vivianne : (see Solís-Weiss).

Lacking information about Vivienne in the gastropod name Claviscala vivienneae E.F. Garcia, 2003.

Lacking information about Vivier in the harpacticoid name Pontostratiotes vivierae Dinet, 1978.

The gastropod name Odostomia vizcainoana Baker, Hanna & Strong, 1928 is named for Sebastian Vizcaino (sometimes spelled Viscaino), 1548-1643, Spanish citizen, leading a fleet consisting of the ships San Diego and Santo Tomás, and the frigate Tres Reyes, which sailed past Carmel Bay and on December 16, 1602 rounded Punta de los Pinos (Point Pinos) and entered the harbor. They named the harbor after the viceroy of Mexico, Don Gaspár de Zúñiga y Acevedo, Count of Monte Rey, who had dispatched the expedition. They were the first known European explorers to reach Monterey. (Dr. Riccardo Giannuzzi-Savelli kindly provided this information and the portrait).

Who is Vladimir in the tanaid name Pseudosphyrapus vladimiri Gutu, 1989?

Vadim Dimitrovitch Vladykov, 1898-1986, North American ichthyologist.

Vladimir Alexeevich Vodjanitsky, (24 Dec. - Poltav province) 1892- 1971 (30 Nov) , Sevastopol, zoologist-hydrobiologist, professor (1941), corresponding member of Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (1957), honoured scientist of Ukraine (1968). One of founders of Novorossiysk Biological Station (1921), till 1968 he was a director of Institute of Biology of the southern Seas (former Sevastopol biological station). In 1976 the scientific ship was named in honour of him, "Profesor Vodyanitsky". [trematoda: Skrjabinozoum vodjanitskii Nikolaeva & Paruchin, 1974; copepoda: Oncaea vodjanitskii Shmeleva & Delalo, 1965]. (Prof. Albina Gaevskaya, Sevastopol, kindly provided this information).

Prof. Alfred Voeltzkow, 1860-1947, German / Austrian collector of natural objects in East Africa, is honoured in the ciliate name Spinivorticella voeltzkowi (Sondheim, 1929) and in the Tanzanian sponge name Cinachyrella voeltzkowii (Lendenfeld).

Vogt : (see Fritz Müller & Vérany).

Dr. Janet R. Voight, 19??-, curator at the Field Museum, Chicago (since 1990 - after a PhD at the Univ. of Arizona that year), Cephalopod specialist, is honoured in the Staurozoan name Lucernaria janetae Collins & Daly, 2005, "in recognition of her commitment to discovering and describing deep-sea invertebrates" [Oligocladus voightae Quiroga, Bolaños & Litvaitis, 2006, Paronesimoides voightae Larsen, 2007, Anatoma janetae Geiger, 2006, Xyloplax janetae Mah, 2006].

Friedrich Sigmund Voigt, 1781-1850, palaentologist and botanist, who wrote a part in the 1834 edition of Cuvier's "Das Tierreich". A younger namesake was the Hamburg geologist / palaentologist Prof. Dr. Ehrhard Voigt, (28 July - Schönebeck) 1905-2004 (22 Nov. - Hamburg), working on bryozoans - almost until he died.

The German diver and underwater photographer Herwarth Voigtmann, 19??-, is honoured in the reef lobster name Enoplometopus voigtmanni Türkay, 1989.

Lacking information about Vojtek in the cestodan name Echinocotyle vojteki Koubek, 1982, but likely a tribute to the Czeckoslovakian zoologist Jaromír Vojtec, 19??-, who has published on flatworms and birds..

Dr. Emily Hoskins Vokes 1930-, US (LA) paleontologist and malacologist (retired in 1996) [Naquetia vokesae (Houart 1986), Lindapterys vokesae Petuch, 1987, Pteropurpura vokesae Emerson, 1964, Chicoreus vokesae R. Houart, 1986, Ocenebra vokesae W. K. Emerson, 1964]. Siratus vokesorum (E.F. Garcia, 1999) is named for her and her late husband Dr. Harold Ernest Vokes, (27 June) 1908-98 (16 Sep.), also he a well know US malacologist [Volvarina vokesi de Jong & Coomans, 1988, Aspella vokesiana R. Houart, 1983].

Georg-Ludwig August Volkens, 1855-1917, German Malacologist, i.a. collecting in East Africa.

Mr. Jacob (Jacques) Voorwinde, 1909-82, of Sydney, Australia (but of Dutch origin), honorary member of Dep. of Malacology of Australian Museum, helped the authors of Pisinna voorwindei Ponder & Yoo, 1976 and Eatoniopsis voorwindei Ponder & Yoo, 1980. Voorwinde was originally a Dutch amateur conchologist, but emigrated to Australia in 1950, opening a hairdressing establishment for female citizens and spent his spare time looking for odd Rissoids and other small species [Pronucula voorwindei Bergmans, 1969, Favartia voorwindei Ponder, 1973, Murexiella voorwindei W. F. Ponder, 1972, Miralda (Oscilla) voorwindei (Laseron 1959)].

Mikail Stepanovich Voronin, 1838-1903, Russian? algal worker.

Dr. Adriana ("Ati") Geertruida Vorstman (20 Aug., Kotaradja, Dutch East Indies), 1895-1963 (31 March, Amsterdam, the Netherlands), zoologist. Her thesis was dealing with fish teeth for which she received the degree of doctor of biology from the University of Amsterdam on 18^th May 1922. After her studies she returned to the Dutch East Indies were she became a biology teacher at a high school in Bandung, Java. In her spare time she studied tertiary fish otoliths in the Geological Museum at Bandung. In 1926-28 she was transferred to the Zoological Museum in Buitenzorg (Bogor), but in 1928 she returned to Amsterdam where she started to work at the Zoological Institute of the University specializing in the field of hydrobiology. She published numerous articles, especially dealing with limnology, between 1922 and 1960. Two taxa are named after her: Plumatella vorstmani Toriumi, 1952 (Bryozoa) and Ephydatia fortis vorstmani Gee, 1930 (Porifera). (Curator Henk K. Mienis, Tel Aviv Univ., kindly provided all this information).

Anna Petronella Cornelia de Vos, 1893-1958, Dutch curator of invertebrates at the Zoological Museum, Amsterdam from 1938, interested in freshwater crustaceans, mainly ostracods. Before her curatorship at the museum, she had worked at Den Helder as assistant to Redeke (q.v.).

Kirill Alexandrovich Voskresensky (Moscow) 1913-87, zoologist-hydrobiologist, disciple of L. A. Zenkevich, one of founders of Belomorskaya biological station of Moscow Uniiversity, teacher of invertebrate zoology chair in Moscow University. The nematode name Daptonema voskresenskii Tchesunov, 1990, is in honour of him. (Prof. Albina Gaevskaya, Sevastopol, kindly provided this information).

The bivalve name Fulvia voskuili Healy & Lamprell, 1992 is honouring Ron Voskuil, 1963-, Delft, The Netherlands, interested in e.g. Cardiidae & Brachiopods.

Gualtherus Carel Jacob Vosmaer, (29 Aug.) 1854-1916 (23 Sep.), Dutch spongiologist, son of the poet and Rembrandt monographer Carel Vosmaer., 1826-88, and descendant of the naturalist Aernout Vosmaer, 1720-99, the European introducer of the orang-outang, who was a fanatical collector and directed the menagerie and zoological cabinet of Prince William V of Holland. (Pennant (q.v.), who together with P.S. Pallas (q.v.) met A. Vosmaer there in 1765, described him as frenchified and extremely ignorant). Young Vosmaer - after having finished gymnasium school in The Hague - began university studies in Leiden 1873 (biology under C.C. Hoffman (q.v.)), went later to Graz, Austria, and worked under F.E. Schultze (q.v.). In 1880 he achieved his PhD in Leiden on a thesis on sponges. After spending two years as high school teacher in The Hague, he became Anton Dohrn's (q.v.) assistent at the Zoological Station in Naples between 1882-88 and began working on what would later become the famous Bay of Naples monograph (published 1935, many years after his death). He succeded Hoffman at the professorship in Leiden in 1904, but had spent the time before this as assistent and after that lecturer in the Zoology Department of Utrecht University. He published several articles and monographs on sponges from all over the world. He published several essential studies on Arctic sponges collected by the whaling ship "Willem Barents" and was asked to contribute to the influential monographic series "Dr Bronn's Klassen und Ordnungen des Thierreichs". After his sudden death his wife with the help of Maurice Burton posthumously published the two monumental Bay of Naples volumes with the plates&emdash;with many water colours of sponges in their natural state&emdash;as a separate volume. His collections are deposited in the Leiden Museum [Astrella vosmaeri Sollas, 1888, Mycale vosmaeri (Levinsen, 1886), Grantia vosmaeri Dendy, 1892, Oligoceras vosmaeri Lendenfeld, 1889, Psammoclema vosmaeri Poléjaeff, 1884, Synops vosmaeri Sollas, 1886,Vosmaeria Fristedt, 1885, Vosmaeria Lendenfeld, 1885, Vosmaeropsis Dendy, 1892, Asbestopluma vosmaeri (Levinsen, 1886), Pontobdella vosmaeri Apathy, 1888]. (Dr. Rob van Soest kindly provided much of this information).

Lacking information about Voss in the nematode name Bodonema vossi Jensen, 1991.

Prof. Dr. Gilbert Lincoln Voss, (12 Feb. - Hypoluxo, Florida) 1918-89 (23 Jan.), U.S. cephalopod researcher at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences. He was e.g. Chief Scientist during the Pilsbury cruise in the Gulf of Panama [Nanomelon vossi Leal & Rios, 1990, Admete vossi Petit, 1976, Pectindonta gilbertvossi Olsson, 1971, Stiliger vossi Marcus & Marcus, 1960, Vossoteuthis Nesis, 1974, Vossia Alexeyev, 1992, Opisthoteuthis vossi Sanchez & Guerra, 1989, Pickfordiateuthis vossi Brakoniecki, 1996, Uroteuthis vossi (Nesis, 1982), Sepia vossi Khromov, 1996]. Two other U.S. cephalopod writers are related to the him: Nancy A. Voss, 1929-, published from 1962 on and still (2004) at RSMAS, is his widow [Vosseledone Palacio, 1978 is honouring both of them] and Robert S. Voss, 19??-, (PhD at Univ. of Michigan in 1983; now working with marsupials) who co-authored two papers with N.A.Voss from 1962 & 1983, is their son. (Andrew Vik, Tampa, Florida kindly provided the information about N.A. & R.S. Voss).

The zoologist and entomologist Julius Vosseler, 1861-1933, published on copepods and amphipods (e.g. the Hyperiidea from the German Plankton expedition) [Scina vosseleri Tattersall, 1906].

Votadini in the nematode name Neotonchus votadinii (Warwick, 1971) is not a person's name, but the name of a tribe of Celts living in NE Scotland (today the area around Edinburgh) during the Roman time and older Medieval time. Their land was known as Manaw Goddodin during the older Medieval time and it was later conquered by the Northumbrians. (Tommy Tyrberg, Sweden, kindly informed about the Votadini tribe).

Lacking information about Voy in the gastropod name Antiplanes voyi (Gabb, 1866). Of course the French zoologist André Voy, 1906-, is too young to be the honoured person in this name. An US malacologist name is C.D. Voy, 1???-1???, but which activity period?

Ilya Gabrilovic Voznesenski, 1816-71, preparator of the St Petersburg Zoological Museum, who in 1839-49 collected in Alaska, California and Siberia [Mopalia wosnessenskii A. T. Von Middendorff, 1847, Rhinolithodes wosnessenskii F. Brandt, Idotea wosnesenskii F. Brandt, 1851, Placentron wosnessenskii Schalfeew, 1892, Rhinolithodes wosnessenskii Brandt 1848]. (Don Cunningham kindly provided much of this information).

The cowry name Erronea vredenburgi Schilder, 1927 is a tribute to Ernest Watson Vredenburg, 1870-1923, who in 1927 together with i.a. Cossman (q.v.) posthumously published on Indian fossil molluscs..

Mrs. Paula Vreeland, 19??-, collected the first specimens of Elysia vreelandae Marcus & Marcus, 1970 in Mexico.

Lacking information about Vrijmoeth in the octocoral name Sinularia vrijmoethi Verseveldt, 1977.

Charles L. Vriese, 1904-88, Dutch malacologist.

Dr. Tamara Vucetic, (Sep.) 1925-, is working on zooplankton ecology.

Lacking information about Wade in the tanaid name Calozodion wadei Gardiner, 1973, but perhaps the Irish palaeo-ichthyologist Robert Thompson Wade, (8 Oct.) 1884-1967 (23 Sep.), may be the honoured person. He published on fossils from Australia.

Lacking information about Wadd in the blind shark name Brachaelurus waddi (Bloch & Schneider, 1801).

Prof. Mats Waern, 1912-98, Swedish algae researcher. Pioneer of scientific diving in Sweden. He began diving before the SCUBA time and when collecting material for his PhD, his mother had to pump air via a hand pump down a tube to her diving son [Waerniella Kylin, 1947, Tabularia waernii Snoejis in Snoejis & Kuylenstierna, 1991].

Wagenaar Hummelinck : (See Hummelinck).

Guido Richard Wagener, 1822-96, German anatomist and helminthologist [Echinophallus wageneri (Monticelli, 1890)].

The amphipod name Stegocephaloides wagini (Gurjanova, 1936) is likely a tribute to Prof. Vladimir L'vovich Vagin or Wagin, 1907-1984, Kazan State, Univ., (who himself - when using English - spelled his name with a W) who at least between 1937-1976 published on Ascothoracida. [Waginella Grygier, 1983]. (Cédric Audibert, Muséum, CCEC, Lyon, kindly provided the dates).

Antoni J. Wagner, 1860-1928, Polish Malacologist.

Elsa Wagner, 19??-, the wife of the author (the Dutch H.P.. Wagner, 19??-,) of Chlamys elsae Wagner, 1988. He had another Dutch malacological namesake, Dr. W.M. Wagner, 1926-91. (The Dutch malacologist Gijs Kronenberg kindly provided the information regarding which Wagner who was the author of this name).

János Wagner, 1906-48, Hungarian Malacologist.

Moritz Friedrich Wagner, 1813&endash;87, German botanist and zoologist, who collected botany in North and Central America in 1853&endash;1854 and in Panama and Ecuador in 1857&endash;1860.

Nicolaus (Nicolai Petrivitsch) Wagner (or perhaps more correct Vagner), 1829-1907, Russian zoologist in St Petersburg, originally working in Kazan, who in 1885 published "Die Wirbellosen des Weissen Meeres" in Leipzig about invertebrates collected during summer months in the White Sea area between 1877-82. (See also Kessler). Wagner left the university in 1894 and began publishing several literary works, like "The Fairy-tales of the Kitty Cat" and was interested in spiritualism. His most well-known disciple was Merezhkovsky (q.v.). [Wagnerella Mereschkowsky, 1878].

Wagner, Rudolph : (see Leuckart).

Bruno Wahl, 1876-19??, who in 1899 had published on entomology in Vienna, published on dalyellids and umagillids in Jena in 1910 [Wahlia Westblad, 1930 and Collastoma wahli Ponce de Leon & Mane-Garzon, 1980].

Paranaitis wahlbergi (Malmgren, 1865) is described from Spitsbergen, probably from Wahlbergöya, named for the botanist Prof. Peter Fredrik Wahlberg, 1800-77 from Lackarebäck outside Göteborg (Gothenburg) or possibly (but less likely) the name of this worm is honouring the memory of P.F.:s brother, engineer Johan August Wahlberg, (9 Oct.) 1810-56 (6 Mar. - Lake Ngami, Bechuanaland), collector for the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, who was killed by a wounded game during elephant hunting [Nucella wahlbergi C. F. Krauss, 1848, Comanthus wahlbergi (J. Müller), possibly Cryptophallus wahlbergi Bock, 1913]. J.A.W. is honoured in several bird and mammal names and in a tree name.

Dr. Ragnar Wahrberg, 1889-1930, Swedish specialist on isopods, upper secondary school teacher (läroverksadjunkt), connected with the bottom fauna surveys in the Kattegatt and the Skagerrak initiated by Jägerskiöld (q.v. - see also Oldevig and Alander) [Wahrbergia Verhoeff, 1926, Mugga wahrbergi Eliason, 1955].

Lacking nationality information about the algologist George H. Wailes, 1862-1945, in the bacillariophycean name Coscinodiscus wailesii Gran & Angst, 1931, the polychaete name Eunereis wailesi Berkeley & Berkeley, 1954 and in the amoeba names Wailesella and Pseudocorythion wailesi Golemansky, 1971. Wailes published on Protozoa from British Columbia in 1932, so he was possibly Canadian. An US "educator" born 1866 is named George Handy Wailes. They are likely not one and the same person.

Lacking information about Waite in the asteroid name Acodontaster waitei (Koehler), but perhaps the English-born ichthyologist Edgar Ravenswood Waite, 1866-1928, may be the honoured person. He worked in Australia and New Zealand [likely the E Indian Ocean skate name Irolita waitii (McCulloch, 1911), Anchistylis waitei Hale, 1929].

The diatom name Dickieia wajdae Witkowski, Lange-Bertalot & Metzeltin, 2000 is dedicated "to our colleague Mrs. Wieslawa Wajda," 19??-, "marine geologist in Fairbanks, Alaska".

Johann Julius Walbaum, (Lübeck) 1724-99, German physician and naturalist, describing several unknown species from remote parts of the globe (such as Sphyraena barracuda, etc.).

Henrietta H.T. Walcott, 1825-1903, US Malacologist.

Lacking information about Waldeck in the amphipod name Waldeckia Chevreux, 1906.

Johann Gotthelf Friedrich Fischer de Waldheim, (13 Oct. - Waldheim, Saxony) 1771-1853 (18 Oct.), paleontologist of German origin active in Moscow (where he achieved a professorship in natural history in 1804 after medical studies in Leipzig and natural history studies in Wien and Paris), i.a. with Foraminifera and Brachiopoda [Waldheimia King, 1850, non Brullé, 1846].

Mr. Alfred Osten Walker, 1832-1925, worked in the Liverpool area, collecting crustaceans (isopods, amphipods, etc.), inspired by i.a. Norman (q.v.), publishing at least between 1898-1916]. He lived in Chester, then Colwyn Bay (N Wales) before retiring to Maidstone (Kent). He was an industrialist who had an amateur interest in marine natural history. He was responsible, with W.A.Herdman (q.v.) and others of the LMBC, for establishing the Marine Biological Laboratory at Port Erin on the Isle of Man (subsequently taken over by the University of Liverpool). There are several peracarids named after him, mostly amphipods [Oradarea walkeri Shoemaker, 1930, Syrrhoites walkeri Bonnier, 1896, Halicoides walkeri (Ledoyer, 1973), Antatelson walkeri (Chilton, 1912), Cheiriphotis walkeri Stebbing, 1918, Epimeriella walkeri K.H.Barnard, 1930,, Metopoides walkeri Chevreux, 1906, Paramoera walkeri (Stebbing, 1906), Podocerus walkeri Rabindranath, 1972.Also the cumacean Ekleptostylis walkeri (Calman, 1907) and an isopod Sphaeroma walkeri Stebbing, 1905 were named for him]. Mr. Walker, 18??-1???, of Exeter, often referred to by Bate & Westwood during the 1860s as a collector, is not identical with A.O. Walker. (Prof. Geoff Walker at the Millport Station, Isle of Cumbrae, is (2003) preparing a biography of A.O. Walker and kindly provided much of the information above).

Dr. Boyd W. Walker, (26 May) 1917-2001 (19 Sep.), of the University of California, Los Angeles. PhD at Scripps in 1949, as a disciple of Carl Hubbs (q.v.). Retired in 1980 [Olivella walkeri Berry, 1958, Knefastia walkeri Berry, 1958, Epitonium walkerianum Hertlein & Strong, 1951].

Bryant Walker, 1856-1936, US Malacologist.

The hagfish name Paramyxine walkeri (McMillan & Wisner, 2004), was named for H.J. Walker Jr., 1950-, a senior museum scientist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography Marine Vertebrates Collection. (Peter Brueggeman, Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library, kindly provided this information).

The Rev. Dr. John Walker, 1731-1803, professor of natural history at the University of Edinburgh and minister of the parish of Moffat, who in 1812 posthumously published "Essays in Natural History", Edinburgh [Walkeria Fleming, 1823, likely Erronea walkeri (Sowerby, 1832) , which was based on "Mr. Walker's collection"].

Liotia walkeri Sowerby, 1908 & Urosalpinx walkeri Sowerby, 1908 were named for Mr. J.J. Walker, who dredged specimens. This may likely have been Commander James John Walker, 1851-1939, U.K. malacologist.

Ray Walker, 19??-, in the gastropod name Dermomurex raywalkeri R. Houart, 1986 is an Australian shell collector and dealer, owner of "AMORA SHELLS", 4 Jennifer Way, Rossmoyne 6155, Western Australia. He has collected all type specimens of this species off Pinneroe Point just north of Perth in 10 m depth of water under rock on limestone reef, Feb. 1984. (Dr. Hans Turner, Casa La Conchiglia, Rovia, Switzerland, kindly provided this information).

Lacking information about Walker in the gastropod names Lataxiena walkeri G. B. Sowerby III, 1908 and Latirus walkeri Melvill, 1895. Possibly this person may be Robert Bruce Napoleon Walker, 1832-1901, F.R.G.S., F.A.S., F.G.S., C.M.Z.S., West African trader, explorer and collector of zoological specimens?

Lacking information about Walker in the isopod name Sphaeroma walkeri Stebbing, 1905

Lacking information about Wallace in the coral name Acropora wallacea Veron, 1990 and in the gastropod name Nipponaphera wallacei Petit & Harasewych, 2000. Possibly, but perhaps not likely, a tribute to the well-known British collector, zoogeographer and evolutionist Alfred Russel Wallace, (8 Jan. - Usk) 1823-1913 (7 Nov. - Broadstone), who travelled much in Brazil and the Malayan archipelago.

Lacking information about Wallace in the SE Atlantic & W Indian Ocean Yellow spotted skate name Leucoraja wallacei (Hulley, 1970)

Hans Thure Sigurd Wallengren, 1864-1938, PhD (on ciliates) at the Univ. of Lund, Sweden in 1897 [Lagenophrys wallengreni Abonyi, 1928]. He had published in orhithology in 1893, likely inspired by his father Hans Daniel Johan Wallengren, (8 June - Lund) 1823-94 (25 Oct. - Farhulty, Höganäs), who had studied zoology under Sven Nilsson (q.v.) and published valuable works about birds and gastropods, but during his time as clergyman, the interest of Wallengren Sr. became focused on entomology and he published much in this field, especially regarding lepidoptera and neuroptera. Hans Wallengren, however, turned to the ciliates, probably inspired by his mentor, Prof. Quennerstedt (q.v.), but after having published 4 thick volumes (between 1894-1900) on these organisms, also he turned to i.a. entomology, but had a broad biological interest. He served as professor of Zoology in Lund between 1908-29. His cousin Sven Axel Olaus Wallengren, 1865-96, was a well-known Swedish author, who used the pseudonym "Falstaff, fakir", technically reminding somewhat of the contemporary US author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910, alias Mark Twain., but with own characteristics, such as the uninhibited fantasy, the cynical stringens, the scepticism and the proud Bohemian superman attitude towards life.

Edward Waller, 1803-73, Irish land owner (and also owner of a yacht used for i.a. dredgings) of Lissenderry, near Aughnacloy, Co. Tyrone (his summer home), but working as a barrister and living in the county Tipperary; dredging and shell collecting colleague of Jeffreys (q.v.) and Johnston (q.v.), also interested in foraminiferans and wrote some reports on them in 1867-68 [Aclis walleri Jeffreys, 1867]. A partial namesake was the friend of Dr. Livingstone, the Rev. Horace Waller, 1833-96, who also visited Africa in 1861-64.

Lacking information about Waller in the gastropod name Siphonofusus walleri Ladd, 1976. An US malacologist Thomas Richard Waller, 1937-, may possibly be the honoured person?

Dr. Boyd Wallace Walker, (Manhattan, Kansas) 1917-2001 (19 Sep.), US ichthyologist. A disciple of Hubbs (q.v.), working at UCLA.

George Charles Wallich, 1815-99 (31 Mar.), British physician and biological oceanographer, born in Calcutta, where his father, the Danish physician and botanist Nathaniel Wallich (original name: N. Adam Wolff) 1786-1854, acted as superintendent of the Botanical Garden. He was educated in Aberdeen and Edinburgh (MD in 1836), but returned to India and served as a military surgeon until 1857, when he returned with his family to Britain. During this trip and during a visit to England 1850 he had collected and made sketches of marine animals and was recommended by T.H. Huxley (q.v.) and the geologist Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 1792-1871, as naturalist on board the cruise of H.M.S. Bulldog in 1860. Wallich's controversies with some of his compatriotic marine biologists, particularly Wyville Thomson (q.v.), W.B. Carpenter (q.v.) and John Murray (q.v.), regarding recognition of his findings of deep sea life were for a long time well-known. Wallich used the nicknames Fur and Weevil for Carpenter and Wyville Thomson, likely a play on the latin word for villan or thief in the first case and in the second case on the name Wyville [Alectona wallichii (Carter, 1874)].

The ophiuroid Ophiurolepis wallini Mortensen, 1925 and the hydroid Hydractinia vallini Jäderholm, 1926 were named for Sten Axel Wallin (or Vallin), (16 Jan.) 1891-19??. Mortensen writes that this young Swedish zoologist during a whaling trip to the Antarctic Seas in February - April 1924 had the opportunity of making a few dredgings in the Ross Sea and at Stewart Island, securing i.a. some new echinoderms. Wallin later became a (fresh water) fisheries biologist, working on plankton, pollution , etc. The copepod name Ortopsyllys wallini Lang, 1934 is likely named for the same person.

John Wallis, 1714-93, British Malacologist. A namesake is Gustaf Wallis, 1830&endash;78, professional botany collector (from Hannover) in Ecuador from 1865-68 and later during hist last year in life.

Lacking information about Wallis in the hermit crab name Paragiopagurus wallisi (Lemaitre, 1994). The male ending of the species name make it unlikely to honour Dr. Elycia Wallis, 19??-, Museum Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.

Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wallroth, 1792-1857, German physician and botanist [Chara wallrothii].

Lacking information about Walsh in the gastropod name Crepidula walshi (Hermansson), but possibly a tribute to Benjamin Dann Walsh, (London) 1808-69, US entomologist, who had been a class-mate of C. Darwin in Cambridge and supported his ideas.

The sponge name Walteria F.E. von Schulze, 1886, the lucernarian name Lucernaria walteri (Antipa, 1891) and the actinian name Actinostola walteri Kwietniewski C.R., 1898 are likely honouring the expedition leader Dr. A(dolf?) Walter, 18??-1916?, from Riga, who was the leader of an expedition to E Spitsbergen in 1889, who collected the following species: Dermatobranchus walteri (Krause, 1892). (Jussi Evertsen, Trondheim, kindly informed about Walter).

Robert Lawrence Walton, 1875-93, US Malacologist.

Carl Frederik Wandel, 1843-1930, Danish sea officer, hydrographer and research traveller, vice admiral in 1905. Took part as captain in the Danish Ingolf Expedition to Greenland in 1895-96. From 1895 until his decease he was president in the Commission for geographical and geological research in Greenland and between 1914-27 president of the Royal Danish Geographical Society [Pourtalesia wandeli Mortensen, 1905, Ceratocaulon wandeli Jungersen, 1892, Wandelia Chevreux, 1906, likely Obrimoposthia wandeli (Hallez, 1906), likely Styela wandeli (Sluiter, 1911)].

Lacking information about C.C. Wang, who published on ciliates during the 1920s and the 1930s, in the ciliate name Vaginicola wangi Kahl, 1935.

K. Wanningen, 1???-1955, Dutch Malacologist.

Henry Baldwin Ward, (4 Mar.) 1865-1945 (30 Nov.), US parasitologist [Wardia Kudo, 1919, Wardula Poche, 1926, Lomasoma wardi (Manter, 1934), Wardium Mayhew, 1925].

Prof. Henry Augustus Ward, 1834-1907, of Rochester, New York a student of conchology, palaeontologist and collector of meteorites [Ocenebra wardiana Baker, 1891, Astralium wardii Baker, 1891].

Melbourne Ward, 1903-66, Australian crab collector / researcher and malacologist. He was the son of a theatrical entrepreneur, starting his career as an acrobatic dancer, but beeing interested in crabs from his childhood, he - at age 24 - left the scene and started as a hobby carcinologist and in 1933 he and his wife moved to Lindeman Island on the Great Barrier Reef, where he founded an own laboratory (and tourist museum). [Cribrarula cribraria melwardi (Iredale, 1930), likely Notobryon wardi Odhner, 1936].

Dr. Anders Herman Warén, 1945-, grown up in the town Skara, Sweden and achieved his PhD at the Univ. of Göteborg, Sweden. Very competent mollusc taxonomist and 1:st curator of Invertebrate Zoology at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm. His interest in shelled molluscs arrived already during his early teens, when he spent summer periods in northern Bohuslän - at relatives of his mother - where many different kinds of shells could be found in shelly sand in many places. In 1967 (the summer before he studied zoologu at the Universito of Göteborg) he stayed at the Tjärnö Marine Biological Laboratory for the first time, and has after that been a regular guest here, at least before he moved to Stockholm. In the beginning of the 1970s also the Marine Biolological Station at Espegrend outside Bergen, Norway, was a very essential place, where he could find several new taxa. With his friend Bouchet (q.v.) he has made many expeditions in the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, etc. and during the last decades they have taken part in several Pacific expeditions. [Liostomia wareni Schander, 1994, Skenella wareni Ponder & Worsfold, 1994, Bichoristes wareni McLean, 1992, Dermomurex (Takia) wareni Houart, 1990, Orbitestella wareni Ponder, 1990, Seguenzia wareni B.A. Marshall, 1991, Alvania wareni (Templado & Rolan, 1986), Vitreolina wareni Rehder, 1980, Parvioris anderswareni van Aartsen & Giannuzzi-Savelli, 1991, Dacrydium wareni Salas & Gofas, 1997, Sticteulima wareni Engl, 1997, Phymorhynchus wareni Sysoev & Kantor, 1995, Mangelia wareni Piani, 1980, Gargamella wareni Valdés & Gosliner, 2001, Hydroginella wareni Boyer, Wakefield & McCleery, 2003, Micropilina wareni Marshall, 2006, Solariella wareni Landau, Marquet & Grigis, 2003, Pragoscutula wareni Fry'da, 1998, Fusinus (Chryseofusus) wareni Hadorn & Fraussen, 2003, Turcica wareni Kaim, 2004, Yoldiella wareni La Perna, 2004, Gargamella wareni Valdes & Gosliner, 2001, Bruceiella wareni Okutani, Hashimoto & Sasaki, 2004, Skenea wareni Kiel, 2001].

Prof. Johannes Eugenius Bülow Warming, (3 Nov.) 1841-1924 (2 Apr.), Danish botanist, who worked on interaction of plants with their surroundings and thereby founded the discipline of plant ecology , is likely honoured in the fish name Ceratoscopelus warmingii (Lütken, 1892) [Merismopedia warmingiana Lagerh.].

Lacking information about N.A. Warpachowsky (sometimes spelled Warpachowski) 18??-19??, mainly ichthyologist, (collecting much in the Caspian Sea system) in the mysid name Katamysis warpachowsky G.O. Sars, 1877.

Dr. Alan Warren, 1954-, ciliatologist at the Natural History Museum, London, is honoured in the ciliate name Holosticha warreni Song & Wilbert, 1997.

Amelia (Amy) Elizabeth Mary Warren, around 1840-1932, Irish naturalist, born in Cork, living in Moy View, Ballina, county Sligo [Ondina warreni W. Thompson, 1845], sister of Robert Warren, 1829-1915, the famous ornithologist, who was a correspondent of W. Thompson (q.v.). Another Irish collector of shells by this family name was Thomas Warren, active during the 1830s and the 1840s, but it is not known if he was related to Robert and Amy.

Lacking information about Warren in the gastropod names Muricopsis warreni E. J. Petuch, 1993 and Xymene warreni W. F. Ponder, 1972.

John Warren, 1810-57, US malacologist like his namesake John Collins Warren, 1778-1856.

Lacking information about Warren in the western Indian Ocean sawshark name Pliotrema warreni Regan, 1906.

Lacking information about Warwick in the cirripedan name Octolasmis warwicki (Gray, 1825).

Dr. Richard Martyn Warwick, (16 June) 1944-, meiobenthologist and marine freeliving nematod taxonomist, working in Plymouth [Neotonchus warwicki (Platt, 1982) & Chitwoodia warwicki Jayasree, 1976, Prorhynchonema warwicki Gourbault, 1982].

Lacking information about Wasmund in the diatom name Navicula wasmundii Witkowski, Metzeltin & Lange-Bertalot in Metzeltin & Witkowski, 1996.

Dr. Marvin Leroy Wass, (24 Apr.) 1922-90 (5 Sep.), ecologist at Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences, found the type material of Aricidea wassi Pettibone,1965 in Chesapeake Bay [Paguristes wassi Provenzano, 1961]. The fish species name Pseudoplesiops wassi Gill & Edwards, 2003 is not in honour of this gentleman, but named for Richard C. Wass, 19??-, biologist of US Fish & Wildlife Service, Hilo, Hawaii, reporting on Pacific fishes at least from the 1960s, "who first reported on the species, in recognition of his important contribution to our knowledge of South-West Pacific fishes" and the syngnathid name Festucalex wassi Dawson, 1977 is likely honouring the same person, like the eel species Glenoglossa wassi McCosker, 1982.

Inanidrilus wasseri Erséus, 1985 is named for Mr. Robert Wasser, 19??-, "former maintenance officer at Lizard Island Research Station, who gave most valuable assistance in my field work there".

The gastropod names Diaphana watanabei Habe, 1976 and Morum watanabei (Kosuge, 1981) are in honour of Prof. Makoto M. Watanabe, 19??-, Japan Division Environmental Biology National Institute for Environmental Studies, who is working on cyanobacteria and other culturable microorganisms. (Dr. Riccardo Giannnuzzi-Savelli kindly provided this information). The Japanese malacologist Denshichi Watanabe, 1873-1963, had the same family name as well as thee Japanese plathelminth worke Dr. Ysamu Watanabe, 1901-75,.

Dr. Shozaburo Watase, 1862-1929, Tokyo Univ., known for his rescue actions for the Japanese Akita dog and for the moongooses, is honoured in the ophiuroid name Aspidophiura watasei Matsumoto, 1915 and in the Japanese cephalopod genus name Watasenia Ishikawa, 1914.

Frederick George Waterhouse, (25 Aug. - near London) 1815-98 (7 Sep. (senile decay) - Mannahill), English-born zoologist and botanist, who recently married emigrated to S Australia in 1852 and was the founder and first Curator of the South Australian Museum 1860-82.

George Robert Waterhouse, (6 Mar. - Somers Town) 1810-88 (21 Jan. - Putney), curator of the London Zoological Society and naturalist, mainly publishing on Mammalia and Coleoptera, later keeper of the Geology Department at the British Museum between 1851-1880. Earlier he had been an architect. He was the elder brother of Frederick George (above).

Ms. Janet H. Waterhouse (later Mrs. J. Macintosh), 19??-, of the Malacological Section, Australian Museum [Fissidentalium waterhousae Lamprell & Healey, 1998].

Lacking information about Waterman in the gastropod name Olivella watermani McGinty, 1940. Possibly the US zoologist Allyn Jay Waterman, (19 Apr.) 1902-88 (18 Oct.), but more likely a tribute to the US malacologist George Arthur Waterman, 1872-1960.

Arthur William Waters, 1846-1929, was born in Alderley Edge, close to Manchester, settled - when around 20 years old - because of problems with his lungs in the Alp region, from where he made collection tours around central Europe. He produced several works about bryozoans, which he often himself illustrated, sometimes, however, he was helped by his wife, who was a photographer. He had been FLS (Fellow of the Linnean Society) for more than 50 years, when he died in Bournemouth. The chief part of his left material is deposited at the Victoria University Museum, Manchester [Watersipora Neviani, 1895, Reteporella watersi (Nordgaard, 1907), Cribrilina watersi Andersson, 1902, Cardioecia watersi (O'Donoghue & de Waterville, 1939)].

Lacking information about Waters in the calanoid name Neoscolecithrix watersae (Grice, 1972).

Andrew Rodger Waterston, (30 Mar. - Ollaberry, Shetland)1912-96 (12 July - Edinburgh), Keeper of Natural History at the Royal Scottish Museum (between 1958 until 1977, when he became a Keeper Emeritus) and British Malacologist like the partial namesake James Waterston, (7 Feb. - Paisley, Scotland) 1879-1930 (28 Apr.- London), curator at the Dep. of Entomology, British Museum (Nat. Hist.), who was Rodger's father.

Dr. Les(lie) Edward Watling, (13 Oct. - Calgary, Alberta, Canada) 1945-, amphipod researcher, Darling Marine Center, Univ. of Maine. He achieved his PhD in Marine Science at the Univ. of Delaware in 1974 [Spilocuma watlingi Omholt and Heard, 1979, Gnathiphimedia watlingi Coleman, C.O., Adorf, L., Eikmeier, N., Hoffmann-Kobert, B., Leistikow, A., Meier, D., Petzold, D., Remmert, K., Schierl, F., Schulte, M.C., Siebensohn, E., Stavridis, T. & Wagner, K., 1994, Stegomorphia watlingi (Berge, De Broyer & Vader, 2000)].

Hugh Watson, (1 June - Newcastle-upon-Tyne) 1885-1959 (21 Jan. - Cherry Hinton, near Cambridge), British Malacologist and nephew of H.C. Burnup (q.v.). He had an immense knowledge of the Gastropods, but rather poor health, often getting attacks of severe migraine, so he never married, but could enthustiastically help younger persons interested in malacology.

Rev. Robert Boog Watson, (26 Sep.) 1823-1910 (13 June), published on molluscs from e.g. Madeira (where he worked - having charge of the Scots Kirk there - between 1864-76) and the Challenger expedition during the 1870s and -80s [Bittium watsoni (Jeffreys, 1885), Basilissopsis watsoni Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1897, Gymnobela watsoni Dautzenberg, 1889, Stenoplax boogii Haddon, 1886, Manzonia boogi Moolenbeek & Faber, 1987, Opalia watsoni (de Boury, 1911), Basilissa watsoni Dall, 1927, Marginella watsoni Dall, 1881, Scaphander watsoni Dall, 1881, Gadila watsoni (Dall, 1881), Brachidontes watsoni Smith, 1885, Rhabdus watsoni Pilsbry & Sharp, 1897]. (Andrew Vik, Tampa, Florida, kindly provided some of this information).

Dr. Jeanette E. Watson, 19??-, Honorary Associate, Marine Biology Section, Museum Victoria, Melbourne, is i.a. working on hydroids [Pseudopallene watsonae Staples, 2005].

Mrs. Kathie Way, 1948-, Welsh collection manager (Mollusca) at British Museum Nat. Hist., London [Pseudocyphoma kathiewayae Cate, 1973, Dentalium kathywayae Lamprell & Healey, 1998, Pitar kathiewayae Lamprell & Kilburn, 1999, Cerithiopsis wayae Jay & Drivas, 2002].

Clifton Stokes Weaver, 1918-92, Hawaiian amateur malacologist [Phenacovolva weaveri Cate, 1973]. A partial namesake was the US malacologist Charles Edwin Weaver, 1880-1958.

Daisy Weaver, 19??-, the wife of the author of Volutoconus daisyae Weaver, 1967.

Lacking information about Web in the isopod name Aega webi (Guérin-Ménéville, 1836).

The cowry name Erosaria staphylea nolani Lorenz, 1989 is in honour of Nolan Webb, 19??-88, South African shell collector.

Prof. Michael Webb, 1924-, Univ. of Durban, South Africa, is honoured in the pogonophore name Oligobrachia webbi Brattegaard, 1966. Webb worked so long in Bergen, Norway during the 1960s, so the pogonophorans (his primary research interest) there were for a long time known as Webb-dyr, meaning Webb animals. In 1976 Webb achieved a professorship in zoology at the Univ. of Stellenbosch.

Philip Barker Webb, (10 July) 1793-1854 (31 Aug.), botanist from Godalming, Surrey, who worked together with Berthelot (q.v.) collected molluscs and other natural history objects in the Canary Islands, is honoured in the green algal name Caulerpa webbiana Montagne, 1837, the gastropod name Epitonium webbii d'Orbigny, 1840, in the octocoral name Leptogorgia webbiana Valenciennes, 1855 and also in the foraminiferan names Miliolinella.webbiana (d'Orbigny, 1839) and Webbinella Rhumbler, 1903. Several herb names are also honouring his memory. He also collected in Asia Minor, Spain and Ireland.

Walter Freeman Webb, 1869-1957, US Shell collector, who wrote "Handbook for Shell Collectors".

The Dutch expedition with the gunboat Siboga, 1899-1900 under direction of the professor of zoology in Amsterdam, Max Wilhelm Carl Weber, (5 Dec. - Bonn) 1852-1937 (7 Feb.), found the first representatives of the pogonophorans off Indonesia. Weber was born in Bonn, as son of a German father and Dutch mother and studied natural history and medicine in his home town (under i.a. F.H. Troschel (q.v.) and F. Leydig (q.v.)) and Berlin (under E. von Martens (q.v.)). He achieved his PhD in Bonn in 1877 and his MD one year later. He became prosector in anatomy at the Univ. of Amsterdam in 1879 and four years later extra-ordinary professor there. The same year, he married Hugo de Vries' disciple Anne Antoinette van Bosse, (27 Mar.) 1852-1942 (29 Oct.), who recently had become a widow and became a well-known algologist [Neomeris vanbosseae Howe]. Meanwhile he had been to the Arctic as zoologist and ships surgeon on board the Willem Barents Expedition in 1881. In 1888 he went to the Netherlands East Indies, making collections and 1894 he went to S Africa studying zoology, after having been appointed (the first) director of the Amsterdam Zoological Museum two years earlier. His interest in the East Indian fauna and the deep sea caused him to be a leading and successful lobbyist for a Dutch deep-sea expedition. His wife also joined this expedition as algae specialist. He retired in 1921. The Weber couple were child-less [Cosmocampus maxweberi, Caridina weberi De Man, 1892, Siboganemertes weberi Stiasny-Wijnhoff, 1923, Longipedia weberi A. Scott, 1909, Calyptronema (Catalaimus) maxweberi (De Man, 1922), Sacculina weberi Boschma, 1931, Notodelphys weberi Stock, 1950, Pseudanthessius weberi A. Scott, 1909, Bryocamptus weberi (Kessler, 1914), Pegantha weberi (Haeckel, 1879), Parviturbo weberi Pilsbry & McGinty, 1945, Sepiella weberi Adam, 1939, Heteroteuthis weberi Joubin, 1902, Stephanocyathus weberianus (Alcock, 1902), Leviapseudes weberi (Nierstrasz, 1913), Amphicteis weberi Caullery, 1944, Parathelges weberi Nierstrasz & Brender à Brandis, 1923]. A namesake is Max Weber, 1864-1930, the founder of Sociology, who also was German-born. (His scientific career).

The type material of Lembos websterii Bate, 1856, was dredged by a Mr. W. Webster - a keen dredger - in Falmouth. Another friend of Bate and Westwood, may have been a Mr. M. Webster, who dredged at Tenby, sending them specimens of one species from there, but it is not unlikely that the letter M here is a misprint for W, as W. Webster usually is acknowledged for sending specimens from Tenby as well.

Harrison Edwin Webster, (8 Sep.) 1841-1909 (16 June), professor at Union College & Univ. of Rochester, later headmaster of Union College in New York, polychaetologist, who in 1884 together with James Everhard Benedict, 1854-1940 [Syllides benedicti Banse, 1971, Streblospio benedicti Webster, 1879, Orchestoidea benedicti Shoemaker, 1930, Ephyrina benedicti S.I. Smith, 1885, Pleurotomella benedictii Verrill & Smith, 1884, Calliostoma benedicti Dall, 1889, Aclis benedicti (Bartsch, 1947), Chlamys benedicti (Verrill & Bush, 1897), Pagurus benedicti Bouvier, 1898, Drilonereis benedicti Pettibone, 1956, Dynamenella benedicti (Richardson, 1899)], (assistent curator at Department of Marine Invertebrates at Smithsonian Institution; retired in 1930) described Streptosyllis. Benedict was also the the permanent naturalist on board the Albatross during its first cruises in the 1880s. (The ancestors of Webster and his many relatives in USA immigrated already in 1635 to Connecticut - the most well-known relative is probably the lexikographer Noah Webster, 1758-1843) [Websterinereis Pettibone, 1971, Streptosyllis websteri Southern, 1914, Polydora websteri Hartman, in Loosanoff & Engle, 1943, Eunice websteri Fauchald, 1969].

Lacking information about Webster in the polyplacophoran name Notoplax websteri A. W. B. Powell, 1937.

Lacking information abot Wedell in the decapod names Paguristes wedelli (H. Milne Edwards, 1848) and Microphrys wedelli Milne-Edwards, 1851.

Karl (Carl) Wedl, (14 Oct. - Wien) 1815-91 (21 Sep.), Austrian pathologist (& dermatologist), anatomist and helminthologist [Wedlia Cobbold, 1860, Didymosulcus wedli (Ariola, 1902), Ascaris wedli Stossich, 1896, Paroneirodes wedli (Pietschmann, 1926)].

Wee : (see Vic Wee).

The Rev. B. J. Weeding, 1???-19??, of South Australia wrote at least three papers on the polyplacophora in 1939-40. He was deceased before 1964. He is honoured in the polyplacophoran names Ischnochiton weedingi Milne, 1958 and Weedingia Kaas, 1988. (Andrew Vik, Tampa, Florida kindly provided this information).

Dr. Walentina (Wallie) Helena de Weerdt, 1951-, started her carreer as a marine biologist with a field study of Millepora (hydrocorals) species in the Curaçao reefs. Subsequently took up the systematics of Western European Chalinidae sponges. She is currently employed in the Zoological Museum of Amsterdam. [Acarnus deweerdtae Van Soest et al., 1991]. (Dr. Rob van Soest kindly provided this information).

Alfred Lothar Wegener, (1 Nov. - Berlin) 1880-1930 (Nov.), German geologist / meterologist, well-known for his continental drift (from an original Pangaea continent) hypothesis in 1915. He froze to death together with his inuit companion Rasmuns Villumsen when heading an expedition over the ice cap of Greenland.

Dr. Everett Elmer Wehr, (4 Nov.) 1895-19??, US parasitologist (living in Dallas, Texas in 1920), is honoured in the digenean name Eucotyle wehri Price, 1930.

Lacking information about Weigele, 19??-, in the ascidian name Lissoclinum weigelei Lafargue, 1968.

The gastropod name Periapta weili E.F. Garcia, 2003 is in honour of Mr. Art Weil, 1928-, of Cincinnati (USA), amateur conchologist studying wentletraps and has published i.a. together with his younger colleagues B. Neville (q.v.) and L. Brown (q.v.). (Dr. Riccardo Giannuzzi-Savelli kindly provided this information, but Weil himself provided the date through the following sentence "I was born in 1928 at home. My mother took one look at me -- and went directly to the hospital. Art").

The gastrotrichan Dactylopodola weilli (d'Hondt, 1965) is likely named for Robert Felix Weill, (11 Mar. - Strasbourg) 1902-1980 (Talence), who in 1934 published a book chapter on nematocysts. He also worked on Protozoa and other marine invertebrates [Coeloplana weilli Dawydoff, 1938, Lekanesphaera weilli (Elkaim, 1967)].

Dr. Steven Weinberg, 1946-, Dutch marine biologist, specialist of Octocorallia. Teaches biology at the European School in Luxembourg, and is author of several underwater field guides. Collected the type of Plakina weinbergi Muricy, Boury-Esnault, Bézac & Vacelet, 1998 in a cave in Agios Georgios Island, Cyprus and also collected the type of Petrosia weinbergi van Soest, 1980 in Lighthouse Cave, San Salvador, the Bahamas. Now living in Senningen, Luxembourg.

The nudibranch name Hypselodoris lilyeveae Alejandrino & Valdes, 2006 is dedicated to Lily Eva Weingarten, 19??-, in acknowledgent of her family's contribution to research and education program at the Natural History Museum of the Los Angeles County.

Heinrich Conrad Weinkauff, 1817-86, German zoologist and malacologist, who i.a. published "Conchylien des Mittelmeeres", 2 vols., 1867-68 [Alvania weinkauffi Weinkauff, 1868, Weinkauffia Monterosato ex Adams MS, 1884, Antalis weinkauffi (Dunker, 1877)].

Norman Edward Weisbord, (1 Oct. - Jersey City, New Jersey) 1901-90 (21 Aug. - Tallahassee, Florida), U.S. palaeontologist, who i.a. worked on cirripeds [likely Favia weisbordi Wells, 1934].

Weismann : (see Bourne).

The gastrotrich name Tetranchyroderma weissi Todaro, 2002 is honouring Dr. Mitchell J. Weiss, 19??-, State of New Jersey, in recognition of his repruductive biology studies of gastrotrichs.

Eugen(e) Weissflog, around 1823-1898 (75 years old when he died in Dresden the 5 May), is honoured in the diatom names Thalassiosira weissflogii (Grunow) G. Fryxell & Hasle, 1977 and Diploneis weissflogii (A. Schmidt) Cleve. (Dr. Riccardo Giannuzzi-Savelli kindly provided the first name).

Lacking information about Weizenbau in the green algal name Cladophora weizenbauii O.C. Schmidt.

Marionina welchi Laserre, 1971 is named for the limnologist Paul Smith Welch, (28 Jan.) 1882-1959 (1 Oct.), "long an outstanding American authority on the Enchytraeidae". He published a textbook "Limnology" in 1935 (second edition in 1952) (Dr. D. Damkaer kindly provided this information). A namesake was Robert John Welch, (Strabane, county Tyrone) 1859-1936, conchologist from Northern Ireland (living most of his life in Belfast) and President of the Conchological Society, but well known photographer by profession.

Lacking information about Weld in the gastropod names Turbonilla weldi Dall & Bartsch, 1909 and Siliquaria weldii Tennison Woods, 1876 and in the scaphopod name Dentalium weldianum J. E. Tennison Woods, 1877.

Lacking information about Weldon in the medusa name Zanclonia weldoni (Browne, 1910) and in the sipunculan name Phascolosoma (Rueppellisoma) weldoni (Shipley, 1892). May it have been the British anatomy professor Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, 1860-1906,?

Douglas Welker, 19??-, and Sherry Welker, 19??-, shell collectors from Decatur, Illinois [Subcancilla welkerorum Withney, 1977].

Stuart Weller, 1870-1927, US Malacologist.

Lacking information about S. Wellershaus, 19??-, German plankton copepod researcher, in the copepod name Oithona wellershausi Ferrari, 1981.

Lacking information about Wellington in the coral name Rhizopsammia wellingtoni Wells, 1982.

Dr. Fred Ethan Wells Jr., 1946-, Senior Curator (malacology), Aquatic Zoology, Museum of Natural Science, Western Australian Museum, Perth, Western Australia, but starting his career in USA / Canada [Dentalium wellsi Lamprell & Healey, 1998, Typhis wellsi Houart, 1985, Albanidrilus wellsi (Erséus, 1990), Olavius (Coralliodriloides) fredi Erséus, 1997, Paranemertopsis wellsi Gibson, 1990].

Tritonia wellsi Marcus, 1961 from Beaufort, N.C,. USA, was named for Dr. Harry W. Wells, 1930-73. Dr. Wells was incapacitated by a stroke in 1969. (Dr. Wells' daughter Ann Dorminy found this site and kindly provided the dates information).

Prof. Emer. John B.J. Wells, 1935-, is honoured in the harpacticoid names Wellsopsyllus Kunz, 1981, Noodtiella wellsi Apostolov, 1974, Paranannopus wellsi Soyer, 1975, Paraleptomesochra wellsi Chandrasekhara Rao, 1972, Pseudostenhelia wellsi Coull & Fleeger, 1977, Parevansula wellsi (Marinov, 1973), Heterolaophonte wellsi Hamond, 1973, and Enhydrosoma wellsi Bodin, 1967. He published "Keys to Aid in the identification of Marine Harpacticoid Copepods" at the Dep. of Zoology, Univ. of Aberdeen in 1976, but moved to Victoria Univ. of Wellington, New Zealand, from which Amendment Bulletins started to arrive in 1978.

Professor John West Wells, (15 July - Philadelphia) 1907-94 (12 Jan.), US zoologist/palaeontologist, who published on scleractinians at least between 1935-72 [Blastomussa wellsi Wijsman-Best, 1973, Wellsophyllia Pichon, 1980, Balanophyllia wellsi Cairns, 1977, Eguchipsammia wellsi (Eguchi, 1968), Polymyces wellsi Cairns, 1991, Scolymia wellsii Laborel, 1967, Stylophora wellsi Scheer, 1964, Coscinaraea wellsi Veron & Pichon, 1980].

Cyclocanna welshi Bigelow,1918 was probably not named for Dr. John Henry Welsh III., (25 Aug.) 1901- (still living in 1998), of Harvard University, who was the teacher of Ralph I. Smith (q.v.) and partly worked with crustaceans, but more likely for William Welsh (sic!) Welsh, 1878-1921, who was Bigelow's coauthor (posthumously) on the "Fishes from the Gulf of Maine", published in 1925.

Wilhelm Weltner, 1854-1917, spongiologist, who published 1321 pages on sponges in 53 papers, as well as several articles on cirripedians [Weltneria Berndt, 1907, Weltnerium Zevina, 1978 weltneri (Gruvel), Farrea weltneri Topsent, 1901, Trianguloscalpellum weltnerianum (Pilsbry)].

The Austrian botanist Friedrich Martin Josef Welwitsch, (25 Feb.) 1806-72 (20 Oct.), is honoured in the red algal name Erythrotrichia welwitschii Batters. He also had some malacological interests.

Lacking information about Wendt in the ophiuroid name Ophiocoma wendti Müller & Troschel, 1842, but likely a tribute to Captain Johann Wilhelm Wendt, 1802-42, German malacology collector and a son of a sailors family. He collected rather much molluscs during his trips around the world onboard sailing ships. His collections are to be found at the Univ. of Bremen.

Wilhelm August Wenz, 1886-1945, malacologist, born in Frankfurt am Main [Syrnola wenzi Nordsieck, 1972].

Winona B. Vernberg, 1924-, US biologist at the Belle W. Baruch Institute for Marine Biology and Coastal Research, who has published on marine symbiosis and pollution [Halectinosoma winonae Coull, 1975]. The author of this species was affiliated with the same institute as his "victim".

Bernhard Werner, (2 Apr.) 1910-84 (22 Mar.), German cnidariologist [Nausithoe werneri Jarms, 1990].

Emil Werth, (11 Mar. - Münster) 1869--1958 (8 July - Münster), Who had studied at the Univ. of Berlin and in 1901 became PhD at the Univ. of Bern, was botanist of the German antarctic expedition on board the Gauss (1901--1903) [Pseudonototanais werthi (Vanhöffen, 1914)].

Elise Wesenberg-Lund, (25 Apr. - Frederiksberg) 1896-1969 (19 July - København), Danish zoologist, who mainly worked on polychaetes and other marine worm groups [Wesenbergia Hartman, 1955, Nephasoma wodjanizkii elisae (Murina, 1977)]. She was daughter of the limnologist Carl Jørgen Wesenberg-Lund, 1867-1955, and married to (from 9 Oct. 1925 until 1932) the zoologist Ingvald Kristian Lieberkind (q.v.).

Lacking information about West in the Australian gastropod name Horologica westiana Ch. Hedley, 1909.

The diatom names Pseudopododsira westii (W. Smith) Sheshukova & Gleser and Caloneis westii (W. Smith) Hendey, 1964 must be in honour of one of several algae researchers named West, e.g. William West, 1848,-1914, William West, 1875-1901, Tuffen West, 1823-91 and George Stephen West, 1876-1919, but which of these persons is the honoured one here?

Einar Westblad, (21 Dec.) 1891-1961 (4 June), Swedish zoologist; upper secondary school lecturer (gymnasielektor) in biology, who devoted all his spare time to the morphology and phylogeny of marine invertebrates - especially freeliving platyhelmints [Westbladiella Luther, 1943, Archiloa westbladi Ax, 1954, Ulianinia westbladi Karling, 1963, Xenoturbella westbladi Israelsson, 1999, Otocelis westbladi Ax, 1959, Eumecynostomum westbladi (Dörjes, 1968), Trisaccopharynx westbladi Karling, 1940, Rogneda westbladi Karling, 1953, Ptychopera westbladi (Luther, 1943), Uncinorhynchus westbladi Karling, 1952, Einarhelmins Karling, 1993, Wahlia westbladi Jondelius, 1996, Nemertoderma westbladi Steinböck,1938, Paraphanostoma westbladi Marcus, 1950, Conaperta westbladi (Marcus, 1949), Duploperaclistus westbladi Karling, 1966].

Lacking information about Westbrook in the red algal name Aglaothamnion westbrookiae Rueness & L'Hardy-Halos, 1991.

Dr. Carl Agardh Westerlund, (12 Jan. - Berga, close to Kalmar) 1831-1908 (28 Feb. - Ronneby); Swedish malacologist, but not working on marine creatures.

The gastropod name Turbonilla westermanni de Jong & Coomans, 1988 must be a tribute to Gerd E. G. Westermann, 1927-, German-Canadian palaeomalacologist..

Professor Wilfried Westheide, 1937-, annelidologist at the Univ. of Osnabruck [Westheideia P.P. Wolf, 1986, Diurodrilus westheidei Kristensen & Niilonen, 1982, Randidrilus westheidei (Kossmagk-Stephan, 1983), Macrochaeta westheidei dos Santos & da Silva, 1993, Syllis westheidei San Martin, 1984, Microphthalmus westheidei Hartmann-Schröder, 1982].

John Obadiah Westwood, (22 Dec. - Sheffield, Yorkshire) 1805-93 (2 Jan. - Oxford), [Westwoodilla Bate, 1862, Dryopoides westwoodi Stebbing, 1888], the first to hold the Hope professorship of entomology in Oxford, also amateur archaeologist and anti-Darwinist; published together with the British dentist and crustaceologist Charles Spence Bate, 1819-89, "A history of the British sessile-eyed Crustacea" which arrived in 1861-69 [Pseudoparatanais batei (G.O. Sars, 1882), Amphilochus spencebatei (Stebbing, 1876)].

Albert Gallatin Wetherby, 1833-1902, US (Cincinatti / Ohio) Malacologist.

The gastropod name Acteocina wetherelli (I. Lea, 1833) may likely honour the British physician and geologist Nathaniel Thomas Wetherell, (6 Sep. - Highgate) 1800-75 (22 Dec. - Highgate). Wetherell was one of the founders of the London Clay Club (see Bowerbank).

Dr. Frank Alexander Wetmore, (18 June - North Freedom, Wisconsin) 1886-1978 (7 Dec. - Glen Echo, Maryland), Assistant Secretary in the Smithsonian Institution [Turbonilla wetmorei Strong & Hertlein, 1937, Diodora wetmorei Farfante, 1945, Encope wetmorei Clark, 1946]. (Don Cunningham kindly provided his correct dates).

Lacking information about Wettstein in the coral name Rhizopsammia wettsteini Scheer & Pillai, 1983. Possibly the name may honour Dr. Otto von Wettstein, 1892-1967 (10 July), curator of the Herpetological Collection of the Natural History Museum in Vienna between 1920-45.

Lacking information about Wetzer in the isopod name Synisoma wetzerae Ormsby, 199l, but likely a tribute to Dr. Regina Wetzer, 19??-, curator of marine crustaceans at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. PhD in 2000 at University of South Carolina.

Frank Walter Weymouth, (17 June - Seattle) 1884-1963 (10 Mar. - Oakland, Calif.), graduate of the Stanford Univ. in 1909, later prof. of physiology there. Published on decapod crustaceans and molluscs and was the author of a few books, e.g. "The edible clams, mussels and scallops of California" [Pinnixa weymouthi Rathbun].

Carl (or Karl) Weyprecht, (8 Sep. - Michelstadt, Odenwald, Germany) 1838-81 (29 Mar. - Michelstadt), German polar researcher and naval officer in Austrian service. During the summer 1871, he and Julius von Payer (q.v.) undertook a pilot study in the waters between Spitsbergen and Novaja Zemlja. Between 1872-74 they tried to reach the NE passage with "Tegethoff", but the vessel became icebound and reached eventually a new group of islands, which got the name Franz Joseph Land. The expedition succeded to escape in life boates and was saved by Russian fishermen [Weyprechtia Stuxberg, 1880, Hantzschia weyprechtii Grunow in Cleve & Grunow, 1880].

Wolfgang Karl Weyrauch, 1907-70, German Malacologist, mainly intersted in land and freshwater malacology.

Dr. Robin Charles Whatley, 1936-, palaeontologist from Wales, who has published on recent and extinct ostracods [Sclerochilus whatleyi Athersuch & Horne, 1987].

Mr. Stephen Whatmough, 19??-, of Beaufort West who sent material of Amalda whatmoughi Kilburn, 1993 to the author.

Silas Carmi Wheat, 1853-1922, US Malacologist.

Charles Moore Wheatley, 1822-82, US Malacologist.

Lacking information about Wheeler in the nematode name Haliplectus wheeleri Coles, 1965.

Alwyne Cooper Wheeler, (5 Oct. - Woodford Green, Essex) 1929-2005 (19 June), (somttimes using the pseudonym Allen Cooper) British ichthyologist, who has also published much on the history of biology and Honorary Editor of "Archives of natural history" until 1999 [Carcharhinus wheeleri Garrick, J. A. F., 1982, Amblyeleotris wheeleri (Polunin & Lubbock, 1977), Plectranthias wheeleri Randall 1980, Pseudopentaceros wheeleri Hardy 1983, Lagocephalus wheeleri Abe, Tabeta & Kitahama, 1984, Setipinna wheeleri Wongratana, 1983, Wheelerigobius Miller, 1981].

Dr. John (Bill) Francis George Wheeler, 1900-79, English nemerteanologist (graduated from the Univ. of Bristol in 1922), publishing on such items from 1934 until 1940. During the last part of his life as a scientist he was stationed at the Bermuda Biological Station for Research, beeing its director from 1932 on. Before that he had been on the research vessel Discovery II between 1924-29 and from 1929-30. In late 1929 to June 1930 he also was in charge of the the Marine Biological Station on South Georgia Island, studying whales, the object of his PhD studies. During WW II the research money to the Bermuda station stopped, so Wheeler became a bank employee on Bermuda in 1941 [Oerstedia wheeleri Chernuishev, 1992, Paradinonemertes wheeleri Coe, 1936]. A portrait is found (web page 32) in Bermuda Biological Station for Research - 100 years.

William Morton Wheeler, (19 Mar.) 1865-1937 (19 Apr.), published in 1894 on a new marine tricladian species in Boston. He worked for a time at the American Museum of Natural History [Bdelloura wheeleri Wilhelmi, 1909].

Lambis wheelwrighti Joel Greene, 1978 is honouring Joseph Balch Wheelwright, M.D., (6 June - Boston) 1906-99 (22 June - Santa Barbara, Calif.), "an ardent amateur conchologist in the best sense of the word, and a benefactor of the California Academy of Sciences". He was a pioneering psychiatrist and Jungian analyst who taught for 30 years as a clinical professor at the Langley-Porter Psychiatric Institute in the University of California San Francisco Medical Center. He was a founder of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco and a past president of the International Association for Analytical Psychology.

Mr. Adam White, (29 Apr. - Edinburgh) 1817-79 (4 Jan.), wrote books and articles about carcinology (i.a. a catalogue of British crustaceans), entomology and vertebrates in Britain during the middle part of the 19:th century. He had acquainted J.E. Gray (q.v.) and obtained an Assistant post at the British Museum's Zoology Department in 1835 and in 1841, when Samouelle (q.v.) was dismissed, this competent person succeded him (until 1863, when he quitted and left for Edinburgh after getting a serious depression when he became a widower, succeded at the Museum by Arthur Gardener Butler, 1844-1925, an entomologist, most known as a lepidopterologist, who retired in 1901, due to ill health) and was a friend of e.g. Gosse and Spence Bate. White was a devout Christian and long played football for the Glasgow Rangers, but an injury to his knee then stopped him from playing any more [Protomedeia whitei Bate (a synonym of Cheirocratus sundevalli (Rathke)), Carinocythereis whitei (Baird,1850), Carinocythereis whitei (Baird, 1850), Callianassa whitei Sakai, 1999, likely Hypselodoris whitei (Adams & Reeve, 1850)].

The sea horse species Hippocampus whitei Bleeker, 1855 was based on a drawing of the species published in 1790 by John White, ca 1756-1832 (20 Feb. - aged 75; buried in Worthing, Sussex), from Drumaran, Mullaghdun, county Fermanagh, Ireland, in his book "Journal of a voyage to New South Wales with sixty-five plates of non-descript animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural productions" London: Debrett. (reprinted in 1962). He had sailed as a surgeon on a transport ship "Charlotte", one of the first ships to transport convicts to New South Wales, where he should fill a position as Surgeon-General. In 1795, he returned to England and was elected FLS in Jam. 19 1796. Achieved a MA and his MD at St Andrews, Scotland in 1797 (Dr. E. Charles Nelson, Hon. Ed. of "Archives of natural history", a collateral descendant of John White, kindly provided most of the information).

The gastropod name Odostomia whitei Bartsch, 1927 may possibly honour the Florida malacologist James Johnson White, 1846-1912, or perhaps (but less likely) the US palaeo-malacologist Charles Abiathar White, 1826-1910.

Lacking information about Whitechurch in the gastropod name Pyrgulina whitechurchi (Turton, 1832).

John Joseph Frederick Whiteaves, (26 Dec. - Oxford) 1835-1909 (19 Aug.), was an English born geologist with wide natural history interests, who moved to Canada in 1861 and during 1868-73 dredged intensively in Gulf of St Lawrence, while he was employed at the Natural History Museum in Montreal. Published in 1901 a catalogue on the marine invertebrates of east Canada [Calloporaa whiteavesi Norman, 1903, Cerithiella whiteavesii Verrill, 1880, Turbonilla whiteavesi Bartsch, 1909]. Obituary: Sollas, W.J. 1910. John Joseph Frederick Whiteaves, LL.D. (McGill), F.R.S. Canada (1835-1909). Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 66:xlix-l

Mrs. Thora Whitehead, (27 Jan. - Chile) 1936-, Brisbane, Australian shell collector, general collector, taxonomist & author. She has cooperated much with Kevin Lamprell (q.v.) and has supported A.J. da Motta (q.v.) in his work and is honoured in the names Thoraconus da Motta, 1991 & Conus whiteheadae da Motta , 1985 and also sent material subsequently named Nassarius whiteheadae Cernohorsky , 1984 and also presented specimen for identification later named Callocardia thorae H.E.Vokes , 1985 and sent specimen of Morula whiteheadae Houart , 2004. Her son in law Ronald (Peter) Bray, who has supplied most of this information, also mentioned that she donated material from his collection, then named Terebra whiteheadae U.Aubry & Marquet ,1995. All her taxon names relate to characteristics of the specimens, except for a species named for Western Australia, Perotrochus westralis (Whitehead, 1987). [Callocardia thorae H. Vokes, 1985].

Lacking information about Whitehead in the fish name Callionymus whiteheadi Fricke, 1981.

Thomas Whitelegge, (7 Aug. - Stockport, Cheshire, England) 1850-1927 (4 Aug. - Sydney), was born in extreme poverty. At age 8, he began to work in the cotton mills, going from this position of slavery to one of near-slavery as a hat maker by age 14. Nevertheless, in those bleak times, Whitelegge had an uncommon interest in natural history and joined several field-naturalists clubs. He was a founder of the Ashton Biological Society. To expand on his instincts and powers of observations, he read what he could and attended lectures on botany and geology (1874). He rapidly gained a reputation for knowledge of the flora and fauna of the surrounding districts. One of his appreciative correspondents was Charles Darwin (1878). In 1882, Whitelegge emigrated to Australia. His continued ramblings and naturalist's pursuits soon brought him to the attention of like-minded persons, and he became a member of the Linnean Society of New South Wales in May 1883. Whitelegge was appointed to the Australian Museum in 1887, as a senior assistant in charge of Lower Invertebrates. He was a confirmed collector, and acquired an unexcelled knowledge of the local marine and freshwater fauna. He supplied G.O. Sars (q.v.) with his famous mud-samples from which he hatched new Entomostraca. Whitelegge's best-known work is the "List of Marine and Fresh-Water Invertebrate Fauna of Port Jackson and Neighbourhood" (1889). He published other papers (at least 90) on crustaceans, echinoderms, hydrozoans, corals, worms, and other groups. Many species of both plants and animals have been named for Whitelegge, attesting to the esteem in which he was held by his colleagues. It is not often that marine biologists can claim insects in their realm, so it is a double pleasure to find Whitelegge memorialized in Halobates whiteleggei Skuse, 1891 [Iphiplateia whiteleggei Stebbing, 1899, Whiteleggia Lang 1970, Sinularia whiteleggei Lüttschwager, 1914, Parathelges whiteleggei Nierstrasz & Brandis, 1931]. (Dr. David Damkaer kindly provided all this information).

Lacking information about Whitley in the Pacific box fish name Ostracion whitleyi Fowler, 1931 and in the Australian cockle name Fragum whitleyi (Iredale, 1929).

Robert Parr Whitfield, (near Utica) 1828-1910, US malacopalaeontologist working in the New Jersey area.

The Australian cephalopod name Sepia whitleyana Iredale, 1926 is named for Gilbert Percy Whitley, (9 June) 1903-75 (18 July), an eminent Australian ichthyologist, later curator of fishes at the Australian Museum in Sydney, Australia. There are a Whitley Awards from the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales [Raja whitleyi Iredale, 1938]. (Dr. Riccardo Giannuzzi-Savelli kindly provided this information).

Lacking information about Whitmae in the holothuroid name Holothuria (Microthele) whitmaei Bell.

Charles Otis Whitman, (Woodstock, Maine) 1843-1910 (Dec. - Worcester, Mass.), US zoologist and embryologist, who became the first director of the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole from its start in 1888 (see also Baird, Spencer F.). He i.a. published on dicyemids [Plagiostomum whitmani von Graff, 1911].

Mrs. Annette Whitney, 19??-, of Sarina, Queensland (but with US roots), collected material of Gadila whitneyae Lamprell & Healey, 1998 and provided material and information about Lioconcha annettae Lamprell & Whitehead, 1990. (Dr. Riccardo Giannuzzi-Savelli, Palermo, kindly provided information about the second eponym).

Lacking information about Whitson in the harpacticoid name Laophontodes whitsoni T. Scott, 1912. Possibly it may have been the Scottish Lord Provost accountant Sir Thomas Barnby Whitson, (10 Mar.) 1869-1948 (1 Oct.)?

The Indian Ocean foraminiferan name Toretammina whittakeri Brönnimann, 1986 (and some paleontological species names) is honouring Dr. John Eustace Peter Whittaker, 1945-, micropaleontologist working on foraminifera and ostracoda at BMNH, London.

May the isopod name Idotea whymperi Miers, 1881 possibly honour Charles Whymper, 1853-1941, British illustrator and ornithologist?

Lacking information about Wiasemski in the heliozoan name Acanthocystis wiasemskii Ostroumoff, 1917.

Daniel E. Wickham, 19??-, US nemertean worker [Carcinonemertes wickhami Shields & Kuris, 1990, the gastropod name Turbonilla wickhami Dall & Bartsch, 1909 may likely honour another namesake].

Lacking information about Wickins in the parasitic nematod name Capillaria wickinsi Ogden, 1965.

Mary K. Wicksten, 19??-, Texas decapodologist.

Felix Wiedenmayer, 19??-, is curator of paleontology at the Basel Museum, Switzerland. His monographs on the sponges of the Bahamas (1997) and South Australia (1989), as well as a recent overview of fossil sponge spicules (1994), are impressive for their detailed and accurate descriptions [Agelas wiedenmayeri Alcolado, 1984, Xestospongia wiedenmayeri Van Soest, 1980]. (Dr. Rob van Soest kindly provided this information).

The gastropod name Cymatium wiegmanni Anton, 1839 is not likely honouring the German pharmacist Arend J. Friedrich Wiegmann, 1771-1853, but more probably his better-known son, Arend Friedrich August Heinrich Wiegmann, (2 June) 1802-41 (15 Jan. - Berlin (tbc)), who published an influential and now seldom-seen Handbuch der Zoologie in 1832. Even more important, in 1835, Wiegmann began the Archiv für Naturgeschichte, an influential journal for over 100 years, ending only in World War II (Dr. D. Damkaer kindly provided this information). Another namesake, the German malacologist Carl Arend Friedrich Wiegmann, 1836-1901, was the son of A.F.A.H. W.

Georg Julius Wienecke, (24 July) 1821-84 (24 Feb.), was born in Nordhausen, Thüringen, Germany. He studied medicine in Germany and lived in Coblenz, but in 1849 he left Germay for medical service of the Netherlands East Indian army in Harderwijk, Gelderland and the same year he was transported to East India. With the exception of two shorter breaks in Europe, he stayed there until 1871, when he finally returned to Holland, having become a Dutch citizen in 1858. During his time in East India, he collected many specimens, which he sent to Dutch and German musea, e.g. Palinurellus wieneckii (De Man, 1880).

Prof. Antoni Wierzejsky (or Wierzejski), 1843-1916, Krakow, Polish spongiologist, who published 13 articles (totally 558 pages) on sponges [Encentrum wierzejskii Tschaschel, 1979, Wierzejskiella Wiszniewski, 1934, Attheyella wierzejskii (Mrázek, 1893)].

Lacking information about Wiese in the copepod name Ectinosoma wiesei Smirnov, 1932.

Dr. Wolfgang Wieser, 1924-, Austrian nematodologist,who started his career on nematodes, working up the Lund University Chile Expedition material, later working in Innsbruck [Wieserella, Leptastacus wieseri Chappuis, 1958, Wieseria Gerlach, 1956, Wiesoncholaimus Inglis, 1966, Wieserius Chitwood & Murphy, 1964, Odontophora wieseri Luc & de Coninck, 1959, Synonema wieseri Jensen, 1989].

Hans Wiesner, 18??-19??, Wien, published on foraminiferans during the 1920s and early -30s [Biloculinella wiesneri (Le Calvez, J. & Y., 1958), Veleroninoides wiesneri (Parr, 1950), Amphifenestrella wiesneri Rhumbler, 1935, Parafissurina wiesneri Parr, 1950].

The algal name Naccaria wiggii (Turner, 1802) Endlicher, 1836 is named for the English algologist Mr. Lilly Wigg, (25 Dec. - Smallburgh, Norfolk) 1749-1828 (29 Mar. - Great Yarmouth).

Lacking information about Wigham, in the bacillariophycean name Chaetoceros wighamii Brightwell 1856. Likely it is the same Mr. Wigham of Norwich, who is mentioned by Landsborough 1852 and also likely it may be the fossil collector and geological writer James Bagnett Wigham, 1814?-51.

Robert Wight, (6 July - Milton) 1796-1872 (26 May - Grazeley Lodge, at Reading), was a Scottish surgeon and botanist. He spent 30 years in India, i.a. as director of the Botanic Garden in Madras. He collected several new species of algae, which were described by Greville (q.v.) and J. Agardh (q.v.).

Dr. Roland L. Wigley, 192?-, of the Benthic Laboratory Northern Marine Fisheries, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, collected in 1960 part of the type materialet of Spiophanes wigleyi Pettibone,1962 along Massachusetts [Protohaustorius wigleyi Bousfield, 1965, Hemiproto wigleyi McCain, 1968, Chiridota wigleyi Larson and Roughley, in Larson, Alarie & Roughley, 2000, Phyllosheila wigleyi Pettibone, 1961].

Wigram : (see Katharine (Jane Douglas)).

Wijnhoff : (see Stiasny).

Lacking information about Wiktoria in the diatom name Chamaepinnularia wiktoriae (Witkowski & Lange-Bertalot in Witkowski, 1994)

Lacking informmation about Wilbert in the foraminiferan name Haplophragmoides wilberti Andersen, 1953.

Prof. Norbert Wilbert, 19??-, Univ. of Bonn, Germany, is honoured in the ciliate name Holostichides wilberti (Song,1990).

James Fowler Wilcox, (2 Feb. - Somersetshire) 1823-81 (11 July - South Grafton). His family moved to Sydney the same year as he was born. He worked aboard the HMS "Rattlesnake" on its expedition 1847-50 in Australian seas and had earlier been a naturalist on board HMS "Blazer". He was a general collector and is commemorized in the plant name Pleiococca wilcoxiana F. v. M.

Izaak Anthonie Jacobus de Wilde, (29 Oct.) 1877-1955 (2 Aug.), Dutch Malacologist.

Lacking information about Wildenow in the Mediterranean fish name Gouania wildenowi (Risso, 1810). Possibly a tribute to the Berlin botanist Karl Ludwig Willdenow, 1765-1812,? His name was sometimes spelled Wildenow (with a single l).

William Wilder, 18??-1920, US Malacologist.

Lacking information about C.? Wildprett in the brown algal name Cystoseira wildprettii Nizamuddin.

Wilfred : (see Sparks).

Julius Franz Wilhelmi, 1880-1937, German "Professor für Hygiene" and platyhelminth researcher, who during the second decade of the 20:th century also wrote papers on entomology [Sabussowia wilhelmii Ball, 1973, Monocelis wilhelmii von Graff, 1911].

The gastropod name Mitrolumna wilhelminae van Aartsen, Menkhorst & Gittenberger, 1984 is not named after a person, but after the "Pedagogical Academy Queen Wilhelmina", in short "the Wilhelmina", where the second author i.e. H.P.M.G. Menkhorst has been employed for many years. (Curator Henk K. Mienis, Tel Aviv Univ., kindly provided this information).

Lacking information about Ulrike Wilke, 19??-, who published on Mediterranean gastrotrichs in 1954, in the gastrotrichan name Heteroxenotrichula wilkeae Ruppert, 1979.

Charles Wilkes : (see Dana).

Sir George Hubert Wilkins, (Mount Bryan East) 1888-1958 (Famingham, Mass.), from South Australia, leader of the British Wilkins' Northern Australia Expedition, 1923-1925, is likely the person honoured in the caridean name Caridinides wilkinsi Calman, 1926. In 1913 he also took part in Vilhjalmar Stefansson's (q.v.) expedition to Arctic Canada and in 1928-30 he made two Antarctic expeditions.

Guy Lawrence Wilkins, 1905-57, British Malacologist.

The amphipod name Gammarus wilkitzkii Birula, 1897 is likely honouring the Russian naval officer Boris Andreyevitch Wilkitski (Vilkitski), 1855-1951 (Brussels), who in 1915 becamme the first person to travel the North East Passage from west to east and earlier had discovered the Zvernaya Zemlya., meaning north land.

Johann Georg Friedrich Will, 1815-68, was a student of Rudolph Wagner (q.v.) and Carl von Siebold (q.v.). From 1848 he was Professor of Zoology (in Medical Faculty) at the University of Erlangen, until his death, when Ernst Ehlers took his place. Edward Forbes (1846) named the medusa genus Willsia in honor of Wills' 1844 study of Adriatic medusae. Will also described the parasitic copepod Staurosoma in 1844. (Dr. David Damkaer kindly provided this information).

Dr. Richard C. Willan, 1952-, malacologist, particularly opisthobranchs and bivalves. Born in Auckland, New Zealand. Completed tertiary education at the University of Auckland, where he was supervised by Dr. Michael C. Miller for M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees. In 1980 he moved to the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, to teach in the Zoology Department. In 1992 he moved to the Northern Territory Museum, Darwin, Australia, to take up the Curatorship of Molluscs. He is honoured in the nudibranch names Cadlina willani Miller, 1980, Chromodoris willani Rudman, 1982, Phyllidia willani Brunckhorst, 1993 & Cuthona willani Cervera, Garcia-Gomez & Lopez-Gonzalez, 1992, and in the polychaete name Australonoe willani Hanley, 1993. (Dr. Willan kindly provided this information on 7 September 2005).

Joseph Willcox, (11 Apr. - Concord, Pennsylvania) 1829-1918 (30 Sep.), associated with the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences [Aplysia willcoxi Heilprin, 1886].

Mary Alice Willcox, 1856-1953, US Malacologist.

The German physician and botanist Karl Ludwig Willdenow, 1765-1812, is likely the person honoured in the fish name Gouania willdenowi (Risso, 1810). He was botanical professor in Berlin.

Johan Nordahl Fischer Wille, 1858-1924, green algae specialist, arriving from Sweden to the Norwegian Agricultural College in 1889 as a teacher, four years later becoming professor in Oslo [Chlorochytrium willei Printz.]. The arctic sea star Tylaster willei Danielssen & Koren, 1881, (of which a reproducing population - a very young specimen crawling around on the spiny upper side of a much larger maternal individual - unexpectedly was detected in Storfjorden, Norway below a depth of ca 600 m the night between 10:th and 11:th Oct. 2005) is likely not in honour of this Wille, but the captain of the ship Vøringen (The Norwegian North Atlantic Expedition 1876-78) (q.v. under expeditions) Carl Frederik Wille, (Trondheim) 1830-1913 (Horten?), who also acted as the hydrographer of the expedition.

Victor Willem, 1866-1936, Belgian zoologist from Gent; the parasitic copepod Splanchnotrophus willemi Canu, 1891 was first described from the nudibranch Facelina coronata by his friend, Eugène Canu (q.v.). (Dr. D. Damkaer kindly provided this information).

Rudolf von Willemoës-Suhm, (11 Sep. - Glückstadt) 1847-75 (13 Sep. - on board the Challenger), German zoologist (with Danish family traditions) from Bonn, who had received his PhD in 1870 under Carl T. von Siebold (q.v.), who very early found out about the young man's capacity and became his friend, at the University of München (Munich) on "Uber einige Trematoden und Nemathelminthen", which he defended at the Univ. of Göttingen, where he had studied from April 1869. Then he studied marine invertebrates (mainly decapods) at Kiel, where he became a friend of prof. Kupffer (q.v.). After service in the Franco-Prussian War, he was on a cruise in the North Sea and met Wyville Thomson (q.v.), who asked him to be the Zoologist on the Challenger Expedition (1872-1876) (because one of the naturalists Thomson had selected for the circumnavigation, William Stirling , had changed his mind) , making the expedition "international," but sadly, von Willemoes-Suhm died (of erysipelas) on the stretch from Hawaii to Tahiti. His letters from the Challenger were collected as a book, "Challenger-Briefe", published by his mother Mathilde in Leipzig in 1877, and is among the rarest of the publications resulting from that expedition. His mother died in January 1907. [Willemoesia Grote, 1873, Tetrastemma suhmi (Bürger, 1904), Langitanais willemoesi (Studer, 1883), Culeolus suhmi Herdman, 1881, Corynascidia suhmi Herdman, 1882, Bonellia suhmi Selenka, 1885, Stylocheiron suhmi G.O. Sars, 1883, Galiteuthis suhmi (Hoyle, 1885), Stereomastis suhmi (Bate, 1878), Myzostoma willemoesii von Graff, 1884]. (Dr. D. Damkaer kindly provided some of this information).

K.A. Willems, 19??-, a copepodologist colleague of the authors of the harpacticoid name Willemsia Huys & Conry-Dalton, 1993.

Lacking information about Willems in the gastropod name Engina willemsae de Jong & Coomans, 1988.

Mr. George Willett, (28 May) 1879-1945 (2 Aug.), Curator of Ornithology in the Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, but also author of some mollusc taxa [Epitonium willetti Strong & Hertlein, 1937, Lepidozona willetti S. S. Berry, 1917, Cerithiopsis willetti Bartsch, 1921, Turritella willetti J.H. McLean, 1970, Willettia Gordon, 1939, Antiplanes willetti Berry, 1953, Suavodrillia willetti Dall, 1919, Turbonilla willetti A.G. Smith & M. Gordon, 1948, Scaphander willetti Dall, 1919, Astarte willetti Dall, 1917]. (Don Cunningham kindly provided his dates).

Arthur Willey, (9 Oct. - Scarborough, England) 1867-1942 (26 Dec. - Montreal), Canadian zoologist, who mainly worked on copepods and e.g. published "Convergence in evolution" in 1911, but also published on polychaetes annd cephalopods (Nautilus) and his first love had been tunicates and cephalochordates. He had been influenced by is teacher E.R. Lancester (q.v.) to become a zoologist. [Willeyia Punnett, 1903, Anchistiodes willeyi (Borradaile, 1899), Coeloplana willeyi Abbott, 1902, Cladopsammia willeyi (Gardiner, 1899), Notoplana willeyi Jacubowa, 1906, Stereobalanus willeyi (Ritter, 1904), Nicolea willeyi Caullery, 1944, Halgerda willeyi Eliot, 1904]. Obituary by A.G. Huntsman 1848 in: Proc. Roy. Soc. Can. Ser.3, 37, App. B: 95-98.

Lacking information about William in the gastropod genus name Williamia Monterosato, 1884.

Lacking information about William in the gastropod name Cerodrillia williami Bartsch, 1943, but possibly the US malacologist Gilbert M. William, 1917-, may be the honoured person? Another possibility may be another US malacologist James Steele William, 1896-1957.

Lacking information about William in the polychaete name Scolelepis williami (de Silva, 1961).

Lacking information about G. William in the stauromedusaean name Manania gwilliami Larson & Fautin, 1989.

Dr. Henry Harford (Haffie) Williams, 19??-, parasitologist at the National Museum of Wales [Paralepidapedon williamsi Bray & Gibson, 1988, Echeneibothrium williamsi Carvajal & Dailey, 1975, Phyllobothrium williamsi Schmidt, 1986, Echinobothrium harfordi McVicar, 1976].

Dr. Austin Beatty Williams, (17 Oct.) 1919-99 (27 Oct.), research staff member of the Systematics Laboratory, National Marine Fisheries Service, based at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. He had a distinguished career spanning five decades, covering the taxonomy, systematics, biogeography, and evolution of various decapod groups, both Fossil and Recent. Although he published numerous important papers, he is probably best known for his invaluable and widely used "Marine decapod crustaceans of the Carolinas" (1965), and its updated version "Shrimps, lobsters, and crabs of the Atlantic coast of the eastern United States" (1984). He was an active member of several professional societies [Agostocaris williamsi Hart & Manning, 1986, Plesionika williamsi Forest, 1974].

John Michael Williams, 1838-1925, British Malacologist.

Milo Woodbridge Williams, 1917-, provided specimens of Mactra williamsi Berry, 1960 [Woodbridgea williamsi Berry, 1953, likely Siphonaria williamsi Berry, 1969].

Dr. Gary C. Williams, 19??-, Department of Invertebrate Zoology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, is an octocoral researcher.

The shrimp Alpheus williamsi A.J. Bruce, 1994, is named for a collector-technician, Rex Williams, 19??-, at the Northern Territory Museum, Darwin, Australia. (Dr. A.J. Bruce kindly provided this information).

Dr. & Mrs. Richard Kennon Williams, 19??-, donors of the holotype of Teramachia williamsorum Rehder, 1972 at the Smithsonian Institution.

Dr. Suzanne T. Williams, 1968-, PhD in 1997 at James Cook Univ., Australian marine researcher working on questions of the borderlines between species and identifying cryptic species, using the combination of molecules and morphology, especially in molluscs.

The polychatologist (Terebellomorpha specialist) Dr. Susan J. Williams, 19??-, USA, is honoured in the polychaete name Terebellides williamsae Jirkov, 1989 . (This name is however likely a synonym of T. gracilis Malm, 1874). Likely the same person is honoured also in Aphelochaeta williamsae J.A. Blake, 1996 and perhaps also in Lepidonotopodium williamsae Pettibone, 1984.

Lacking information about Williams in the acinian name Cribrinopsis williamsi Carlgren O., 1940. Possibly the eponym may honour George Williams, 1???-19??, who in 1933 was appointed assistent to Prof. Theodore Thomson Flynn, (11 Oct. - Coraki, New South Wales) 1883-1968 (23 Oct. - a nursing home in Liss, Hampshire), (the film actor Errol's father) at Queens Univ., Ireland [Hololepidella flynni Benham, 1921, Pycnothea flynni G. Williams, 1940], and conducted several undergraduate field courses in marine biology. In 1954 he published a fauna list which included several of the findings from the Portaferry Marine Biology Laboratory. Williams retired in 1968 after having worked at the Department of Zoology from 1930. In 1977 he and his wife Mollie established a research fund associated with the Queen's University. Flynn grew up in Australia and studied at the Univ. of Sydney, married in 1909 (to one of the Bounty mutineers' descendants) and moved in 1911 to Tasmania, but left for London in September 1830 and next summer he took up a chair at Queen's Univ., Belfast, then also becoming director of the Portaferry Marine Laboratory, and retired in 1948, moving to Surrey, England.

L.T. Williams , 19??-, is honoured in the Caribbean sea urchin name Lytechinus williamsi Chesher, 1968, because he provided his boat and hospitality for the investigations of the echinoid fauna of the Atlantic reefs of Panama.

Lacking information about Williams in the gastropod name Uttleya williamsi A. W. B. Powell, 1952. Possibly T. Walley Williams, 1910-85, US malacologist.

Thomas Williams, 1819-65, M.D. at London Univ. in 1840, Physician to the Swansea Infirmary, British microscopist and polychaete worker, who published on these animals in 1852 and also published on breathing in invertebrates.

The oniscoid isopod name Philoscia williamsi Van Name, 1924 is in honour of Harrison Charles Williams, 1873-1953, US (Ohio born) entepreneur and multi-millionaire, who in 1923 sponsored a Galapagos expedition led by William Beebe (q.v.) and later together with Vincent Astor & Marshall Field financed Beebe's expedition to the Sargasso Sea and in 1926 an expedition to Greenland led by Putnam (q.v.).

Lacking information about Williams in the tanaid name Typhlotanais williamsae Dojiri & Sieg, 1997, but possibly a tribute to Dr. Lucy Bunkley Williams (see below).

Prof. Ernest H. Williams, jr., 19??-, [likely Caecidotea williamsi Escobar-Briones & Alcocer, 2002, also some copepods, flukes etc. are dedicated to him] & Dr. Lucy Bunkley-Williams, 19??-, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez,Puerto Rico, are both working on isopodology, parasitology, etc..

Lacking information about Williams in the decapod name Hippolyte williamsi Schmitt, 1924.

Lacking information about Williams in the polychaete names Euzonus williamsi (Hartman, 1938) & Phyllodoce williamsii (Hartman, 1936).

Synasterope williamsae Kornicker, 1986 is named for Mrs. Vernetta M. Williams, 19??-, Smithsonian Institution, who has assisted the author in preparing slides.

Dr. Jeffrey Taylor Williams, 1953-, co-Collection Manager of the Division of Fishes at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, who also has taken a lot of SCUBA pictures of tropical fishes [Entomacrodus williamsi Springer & Fricke, 2000, Luzonichthys williamsi Randall and McCosker, 1992 (an anthiine fish), Enneapterygius williamsi Fricke, 1997 (a triplefin fish), Taeniacanthus williamsi Dojiri & Cressey, 1987 (a parasitic copepod)].

Possibly is somebody named G. Williamson hidden in the name Bathyporeia guilliamsoniana (Bate,1856). Who was he? Could it be George Williamson, who published "Observations on the human crania ..." in 1857 (Dublin) or does any probable Guilliamson exist?

William Crawford Williamson, 1816-95, physician of Manchester published "On the recent Foraminifera of Great Britain" in 1858. He is else more well-known as a pioneer in studying fossil plants [Rosalina williamsoni (Chapman & Parr, 1932), Oolina williamsoni (Alcock, 1865), Laryngosigma williamsoni (Terquem, 1878), Elphidium williamsoni Haynes, 1973, Pyrgo williamsoni (Silvestri, 1923)].

Could the gastropod name Vitrinella williamsoni Dall, 1892, despite its mascular ending, have been named for the Californian researcher Martha Burton Woodh Williamson, 1843-1922, who published on Mitridae?

The gastropod name Turrancilla williamsoni Petuch, 1987 is in honour of Dr. Peter Williamson, 19??-, palaeomalacologist of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard. (Dr. Riccardo Giannuzzi-Savelli, Palermo, kindly provided this information).

Dr. Bette L. Willis, 1951-, James Cook Univ., is honoured in the sleractinian name Acropora (Acropora) willisae Veron & Wallace, 1984.

Lacking information about Willmer in the tunicate name Corella willmeriana Herdman, 1898.

Lacking information about Willows in the collembol name Willowsia Shoebotham, 1917.

Calliostoma muriellae Vilvens, 2001 is named for Murielle Willox, 19??-, Belgian assistant collection manager of the shell dealer and collector Guido Poppe (q.v.). (Dr. Riccardo Giannuzzi-Savelli kindly provided this information).

Francis Willughby, (Middleton, Warwickshire) 1635-72 (3 July - Middleton Hall), early collector of natural history objects. He was a disciple, friend and patron of John Ray (q.v.).

Lacking information about Wilma in the gastropod name Manzonia wilmae Moolenbeek & Faber, 1987.

Col. L. Worthington Wilmer, 18??-19??, UK shell collector [Gyrineum wilmeriana Preston, 1908].

Edward Wils, 19??-, considered the father of post-war flemish conchology in Belgium. Co-founder of the club Gloria Maris and expert in Conidae. [Calliotropis wilsi Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006, Conus wilsi Delsaerdt, 1998, Trochus wilsi Pickery, 1989, Costellaria wilksi Buijse & Dekker, 1990]. (G. Poppe kindly provided most of this information).

Lacking information about Wilson in the monogenean name Loimosina wilsoni Manter, 1944.

Wilson in the cestodan name Tetrabothrius wilsoni (Leiper & Atkinson, 1914) : (see Terra Nova expedition, 1910-).

Lacking information about Wilson in the nematode names Parapinnanema wilsoni Inglis, 1969 and Wilsonema Cobb, 1913.

Dr. George "Buz" D.F. Wilson, (29 Jan.) 1947-, published in 1987 on "Crustacean communities of the manganese nodule province ...". He achieved his B.A.with distinction, Indiana University; M.Sc., Ph.D. at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla CA, USA. He is a specialist in Isopod systematics but interested in Arthropod phylogeny and deep-sea biodiversity and is currently Principal Research Scientist at the Division of Invertebrate Zoology, Australian Museum, Sydney. He is honoured in the isopod name Bellibos buzwilsoni Haugsness & Hessler, 1979 [Collettea wilsoni Larsen, 1999].

Lacking information about Wilson in the gastropod name Alcithoe wilsonae (Powell, 1933).

Lacking information about Wilson in the scleractinian name Symphyllia wilsoni Veron, 1985.

Barbara Wilson, 19??-, provided specimens of Prionovolva pudica wilsoniana Cate, 1973

Dr. Barry Robert Wilson, 1935-, curator of mollusks at the Western Australian Mus., Perth [Haustellum wilsoni D'Attilio & Old, 1971, Strombus wilsoni Abbott, 1967, Vasticardium wilsoni (Voskuil & Onverwagt, 1991)].

Prof. Charles Branch Wilson, (20 Oct.) 1861-1941 (18 Aug.), U.S. copepodologist, living in Westfield, Massachusetts. Mainly working with copepods from the Woods Hole area [Taeniacanthus wilsoni A. Scott, 1929, Wilsonidius Tanaka, 1969, Pholetiscus wilsoni (Pearse, 1930), Tisbe wilsoni Sewell, 1928, Paranychocamptus wilsoni Coull, 1976, Chondracanthus wilsoni Ho, 1971, Cancricola wilsoni Pearse, 1930, Protopsammotopa wilsoni Wells, 1977] (see also Rathbun).

Douglas Patrick Wilson, (Manchester) 1902-91 (18 Dec.), British zoologist at the Plymouth laboratory, mainly working on polychaetes and a pioneer photographer of marine creatures [Wilsoniella Pettibone, 1993, Magelona wilsoni Glémarec, 1966].

Dr. H.V. (Henry Van Peters) Wilson, (16 Feb. - Baltimore) 1863-1939 (4 Jan.), spongiologist, who published more than 1,000 pages on sponges. He was Prof. of biologi at the Univ. of North Carolina from 1894 and had been educated by W.K. Brooks (q.v) at the Johns Hopkins University. He had begun to study sponges during the 1890s and spent most of 1902-03 in Berlin in von Schulzes (q.v.) laboratory and learned more about sponges.

Acanthochiton wilsoni Sykes and Ischnochiton wilsoni E. R. Sykes, 1896 (described from Victoria) were named for John Bracebridge Wilson, 1828-95, master at Geelong Grammar School (Victoria, Australia), collector of shells, bryozoans, etc.. The bryozoan genus Bracebridgia is of course also honouring him and likely also the bryozoans Amathia wilsoni Kirkpatrick, 1888 and Beania wilsoni MacGillivray, 1885. Likely also Callochiton wilsoni T. Iredale & A. F. Hull, 1929 was named for him? (Dr. Phil Bock kindly added one of the eponyms).

Mildred Evelyn Stratton Wilson, (25 Apr.) 1909-73 (6 Aug.), born in Oregon, following her parents to the state of Washington around 1921, started her career as a teacher, but happened to visit Puget Sound Biological Station (now the Friday Harbor Laboratories) on a few occations and became interested in biology (and also met her husband to be, Charles S. Wilson). She married in 1934 in California and began studying biology two years later (invertebrate morphology under Sol Felty Light, 1886-1947 [Oligochinus lighti J.L. Barnard, 1969, Anthessius lighti Illg, 1960, Styelicola lighti Illg & Dudley, 1980, Diadumene lighti Hand C., 1956]). Still two years later she became a research assistent to Light, curating his entomostracan - especially copepod - collections. In 1938 she moved to Washington D.C., where her husband worked, and recommended by Light, she started working on copepods at the USNM. However, in 1947 she moved to Anchorage, Alaska, following her husband, but kept studying copepods for the rest of her life, informally being affiliated with USNM [Lubbockia wilsonae Heron & Damkaer, 1969, perhaps also Rhizothrix wilsoni Bodin, 1979 and Kliopsyllus wilsoni (Krishnaswamy, 1957) or are these names (as the masculine genitive endings suggests) honouring C.B. Wilson?].

Lacking information about Wilson in the Australian crinoid name Aporometra wilsoni (F.J. Bell, 1888), but perhaps a tribute to John Bracebridge Wilson (above)? One or another of Australian taxon names may, however, possibly honour Dr. Robin Wilson, 19??-, Museum Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.

Lacking information about Wilton in the copepod name Laophonte wiltoni T. Scott, 1912.

Wim : (see Vader).

Ronald Winckworth, (12 July - Brighton) 1884-1950 (6 Sep. - South Norwood, Surrey), British malacologist, who particularly was interested in nomenclatural problems. He was one of the two secretaries of the Royal Society and FLS from 1935 onwards and had a huge malacological library. He was very interested in persons connected to malacology and knew most about them. Beside malacology he appreciated anything connected with the sea and sailing and was a good swimmer. [Macrochlaena winckworthi Robson, 1929, Octopus winckworthi Robson, 1926, Latiaxis winckworthi Fulton, 1930, Vesicomya winckworthi Prashad, 1932, Solemya winckworthi Prashad, 1932, Tellina winckworthi Salisbury, 1934, Sepia winckworthi Adam, 1939, Erosaria turdus winckworthi Schilder & Schilder, 1939, Otinodoris winckworthi White, 1948, Tropidophora winckworthi Fischer-Piette, 1949]. The military surgeon Colonel Harold Charles Winckworth, (13 Aug. - Brighton) 1878-1947 (23 Oct. - Seyshelles), who also was a malacologist and fond of playing lawn tennis and violoncell music (and every kind of chamber music), was an older brother and Ronald, who visited his brother in the Seyshelles, where the brother a few years earlier had purchased a house (he had earlier visited him in India, when the brother was on duty there), during the time the brother died, wrote an obituary in Journal of Conchology [Ischnochiton winckworthi Leloup, 1936, Pleurobranchus winckworthi White, 1946, Euselenops winckworthi Satyamurti, 1946].

Karl Georg Wingstrand, (2 Mar.) 1919-92 (2 Nov.), Swedish zoologist, who moved to Denmark and held a professorship in zoology in København [Wingstrandarctus Kristensen, 1984].

Lacking information about Winifred in the gastropod name Chicoreus winifredae Vokes, 1995.

Lacking information about Winkelmann in the oligochaete name Limnodriloides winkelmanni Michaelsen, 1914.

Rev. Henry W. Winkley, 1858-1918, from New England, collected i.a. Pyramidellids, and is honoured in the gastropod name Odostomia winkleyi Bartsch, 1909.

Winona : (see Vernberg).

Lacking information about Winslow in the Callianassid name Glypturus winslowi (Edmondson, 1944). The US malacologist Mina L. Winslow, 1890-1982, is likely not the honoured person.

Dr. Richard Winterbottom, 19??-, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, is an ichthyologist.

Wirén : (see Gustafson).

Lacking information about Wirketiss(a) in the harpacticoid name Tisbe wirketissae Tschislenko, 1967.

Dr. Peter Wirtz, 1948-, Universidade da Madeira, Funchal, Madeira, is honoured in the shrimp names Periclimenes wirtzi d'Udekem-d'Acoz, 1996 & Pseudocoutierea wirtzi d'Udekem-d'Acoz, 2000, in the polychaete name Lygdamis wirtzi Nishi & Nunez, 2000, in the cerianthipatharian name Tanacetipathes wirtzi Opresko, 2001 and in the fish name Wheelerigobius wirtzi P.J. Miller, 1988.

The diatom name Amphora wisei (Salah, 1955) Simonsen, 1962 is likely a tribute to the algae worker Frederick Clunie Wise, 1884-1962.

Lacking information about Wiser in the gastropod names Putzeysia wiseri Calcara, 1842 and Calliostoma wiseri (Calcara, 1841).

Robert L. Wisner, 19??-, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, is honoured in the hagfish name Eptatretus wisneri (Kuo, Huang & Mok , 1994). He was a research technician at SIO, working many years for Carl Hubbs (q.v.), and is an authority on hagfishes and myctophids, and author of numerous publications. (Peter Brueggeman, Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library, kindly provided this information)

Lacking information about Wissel in the coral name Favia wisseli Scheer & Pillai, 1983, but possibly Prof. Christian Wissel, 194?-, of the Univ. of Marburg, who has published on coral bleeching, but retired in 2005.

W.F. de Wit, (4 Jan.) 1921-99 (21 July), Dutch Malacologist.

Thomas Henry Withers, 1883-1953, published on fossil cirripedians from different parts of the world and from the collections at the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) [Euraphia withersi (Pilsbry, 1916), Pisiscalpellum withersi Utinomi, 1958].

Mr. C.C. Withrow, 19??-, well-known US shell collector [Trigonaphera withrowi Petit, 1976, Muricopsis withrowi E. H. Vokes & R. Houart, 1986, Scalptia withrowi (Petit, 1976)].

The diatom name Navicula witkowskii Lange-Bertalot, Iserentant & Meteltin in Witkowski & al., 1998 is of course a tribute to the Polish diatom worker Andrzej Witkowski, 19??-.

Mr. Fritz Herman Paul Wittig, 1???-19??, father of Mrs. Renate Wittig Skinner, 1922-89, who loaned specimens of Conus wittigi Walls, 1977 to the author.

Witjas in the cephalopod name Pteroctopus witjazi Akimushkin, 1963 and in the myzostomid name Asteromyzostomum witjasi ?,1??? : (See Vitjaz).

Prof. Veit Brecher Wittrock, (5 May - Holm, Dalsland) 1839-1914 (1 Sep. - Bergelund, Stockholm), Swedish botanist, especially algae researcher. PhD in Uppsala in 1866. He came from the county of Dalsland, but his family was of German stock [Entocladia wittrockii (Wille, 1880) Burrows, 1991, Wittrockiella Wille, 1909].

The polychaete name Polydora wobberi Light, 1970 may possibly honour Don R. Wobber, 19??-, of San Francisco, California. Wobber wrote at least one article on the prey of nudibranch gastropods in 1970 and seems to be a jade sculptor (and diver) living in Pacific Grove. He started his unwerwater photographerr career during the 1950s. (Andrew Vik, Tampa, Florida kindly provided this information).

Lacking information about Wodjanizki in the sipunculid name Nephasoma wodjanizkii (Murina, 1973).

Otto Wohlberedt, 1870-1945, German Malacologist.

Lacking information about Wohlenberg in the diatom name Sieminskia wohlenbergii (Brockmann, 1950) Metzeltin & Lange-Bertalot.

The diatom name Stenoneis wojtek-kowalskii Witkowski, Lange-Bertalot & Metzelkin, 2000 is dedicated to the author's colleague Dr. Wojciech Kowalski, Agricultural Academy in Szczecin.

Lacking information about Wolf in the cephalopod name Octopus wolfi (Wülker, 1913). Possibly the German botanist Franz Theodor Wolf, 1841-1921, who was professor of geology and mineralogy at the Central University in Quito from 1870. He was honored with the title of state geologist in 1875, when he i.a. collected botany on the Galapagos.

Dr. Paul S. Wolf, 19??-, US polychaetologist, first recorded specimens of Pisione wolfi San Martin, López & Núñez, 1999.

Dr. Douglas A. Wolfe, 1939-, (of Beaufort, North Carolina) collected all known specimens of Drillia (Drillia) wolfei Tippett, 1995. (Andrew Vik, Tampa, Florida kindly provided this information).

Richard Norris Wolfenden, (18 Jan. - Bolton, Lancashire) 1854-1926 (18 Aug.), British copepod specialist. He achieved his MD in Cambridge in 1884 and worked as a physician, became a disciple and friend of the founder of laryngology, Sir Morell Mackenzie, (7 July) 1837-92 (3 Feb.), and founded together with him "Journal of Laryngology and Rhinology". Wolfenden, however, became so disappointed, when he felt that his friend Mackenzie unfairly had been publically viciosly attacked over his role in the medical diagnosis and treatment of the German Crown Prince Wilhelm (and Emperor for three months - before he died in June 1888), that Wolfenden left medicine forever. In 1896, soon after Röntgen had discovered the X-rays, Wolfenden started experiment with these. He had also acquired a sailing yacht of around 60 ft, the "Walwin", started dredging around the Orkneys, where he leased a lodge and began X-ray studies on marine invertebrates, mainly echinoderms and large crustaceans. He began monthly cruises during summer months in the Faeroe-Shetland Channel in 1899 until 1905, from 1902 with a new yacht, the around 100 ft "Silver Belle", extending the cruises more Atlantic, including the Azores, Madeira and Gibraltar in 1904-06 and between the Faeroe Banks and Norway in 1907. He sent much of the material from the cruises to different specialists and began himself publishing on radiolarians and copepods, settling later on the second group and during the 1900s he spent much time at the Plymouth Laboratory and the British Museum of Natural History and he also visited the Zoological Station in Naples a few times. In 1910, however, he terminated this part of his life, emigrated to Ontario, Canada, where his brother lived, and started a fruit farm, raising cherries and peaches [Euchaeta wolfendeni Scott, 1909, Anonyx wolfendeni Tattersall, in Wolfenden, 1909, Lucicutia wolfendeni Sewell, 1932]. See also Buchan Henry, the skipper of Wolfenden's yachts.

Wolfer : (see Fowler).

Torben Lunn Wolff, (July) 1919-, Danish isopodologist (PhD on bathyal and abyssal asellotes in 1963) and writer on Danish history of biology, at the Zoologisk Museum, København (Copenhagen). He has taken part of several expeditions, e.g. the West African Atlantide in 1945-46 and the circumnavigation with Galathea in 1950-52. [Torbenwolffia Zenkevitch, 1966, Amigdoscalpellum torbenwolffi Zevina, 1981, Nassarius wolffi (Knudsen, 1956) Gnathia wolffi, Siriella wolffi O. Tattersall, 1961, Heteromesus wolffi Chardy, 1974, Munna wolffi Fresi & Mazzella, 1974, Periclimenaeus wolffi A.J. Bruce, 1994, Nuculana wolffi Dell, 1956, Elaphognathia wolffi Müller, Wolffogebia Sakai, 1982, Leviapseudes wolffi (Lang, 1968), Neotanais wolffi Kudinova-Pasternak, 1966, Lagisca torbeni Kirkegaard, 1995, Bopyrissa wolffi Markham, 1978].

Thomas Vernon Wollaston, (9 Mar. - Scotter, Lincolnshire) 1822-78 (4 Jan. - Teignmouth, Devon), British entomologist (specialized in Coleoptera) and malacologist, who worked with material from Madeira (where he stayed the winter 1847-48, returning four times in 1855) and other Atlantic Islands (Canaries 1858 - with J.E. Gray (q.v.) & R.T. Lowe (q.v.) - and 1859 - with Lowe, Cape Verde 1866 - with Gray & Lowe and later to St. Helena together with his wife and Gray). B.A. in Cambridge in 1845, FLS from 1847. Remained a close friend of C. Darwin despite that his strong religiousity stoppede him to beleive in Darwin's theories. [Antipathella wollastoni (Gray, 1857), Cuspidaria wollastoni E.A. Smith, 1885]; the author of Labidocera wollastoni (Lubbock, 1857), John Lubbock, (30 Apr.) 1834-1913 (28 May), English amateur naturalist, banker and philantropist - ennobled as Lord Avebury - was also essentially an entomologist and a friend of Charles Darwin (his neighbor) [Lubbockia Claus, 1863, Clausia lubbocki Claparède, 1863, Ditrichocorycaeus lubbocki (Giesbrecht, 1891)].

Alf Wollebæk, (8 Jan. - Lier, Buskerud) 1879-1960 (9 Mar. - Oslo), Norwegian polychaetologist, who i.a. published a thick work on northern European Owenids, Terebellomorphs and Serpulids in 1912. He had started as J. Hjort's (q.v.) assistant and was as such an expert on prawn fishery. He followed Hjort to Bergen in 1900, but went to Stockholm as ICES assistant during 1905-07, then back in Bergen and soon starting his more than 40 years long career at the Zoologisk Museum, Oslo. [Lanice wollebaeki Caullery, 1944].

Tadeusz Wolski, 18??-19??, honoured in the copepod name Mesochra wolskii Jakubisiak, 1933, was a Polish specialist on Cladocera, who kept publishing at least until 1929. (Dr. Riccardo Giannuzzi-Savelli kindly provided this information).

Professor Richard Woltereck, (6 Apr. - Hannover) 1877-1944 (23 Feb. - Seeon), was i.a. working on crustaceans, e.g. amphipods in Leipzig [Nitocra wolterecki Brehm, 1909].

Herbert Womersley, 1889-1962, entomologist at the South Australian Museum [Quasimodia womersleyi Sheard, 1936].

Searles Valentine Wood, (14 Feb.) 1798-1880 (26 Oct. - Martlesham, near Woodbridge), British geologist and shell collector, who had sailed as a midshipman in the British East India Company's service between 1811-26, but then settled in Hasketon, near Woodbridge, Suffolk. [Caecum searleswoodi Carpenter, 1859, Obesotoma woodiana Møller, 1842, Lora woodiana (Møller, 1842), Verticordia woodii E.A. Smith, 1885, Natica woodi]. Colleague in the "London Clay Club" 1836-47 with Bowerbank (q.v.). His son had for some years been a solicitor in Woodbridge, but later also becoming a geologist, had exactly the same name and lived between 1830-84.

William Wood, 1774-1857, English natural history bookseller, publisher and author of several natural history books, especially on malacology.

The British Rev. John George Wood, 1827-89, published much about natural history, including sea shore animals.

Forrest Glen(n) Wood, (13 Nov. - South Bend, Indiana) 1918-92 (17 May - San Diego), cephalopod researcher.

Lacking information about Wood in the diatom name Cocconeis woodi Reyes, 1970.

Richard George Woodbridge 3rd, (22 feb.) 1917-, Wilmington, Delaware, USA, amateur conchologist, is honoured in the gastropod names Woodbridgea Berry, 1953 and Marginella woodbridgei Hertlein & Strong, 1951. (Riccardo Giannuzzi-Savelli kindly provided this information).

The fish name Centropyge woodheadi Kuiter, 1998, (a synonym of C. heraldi Woods and Schultz, 1953) is likely a tribute to Phil Woodhead, 19??-, underwater photographer.

The late Mrs. Joyce Woodhouse, 19??-??, is honoured in Cadulus woodhousae Lamprell & Healey, 1998 for her contributions to Australian malacology

Lacking information about Wood-Jones in the scleractinian name Pocillopora woodjonesi Vaughan,1918. Likely it may be the British physician and anatomist, Prof. Frederic Wood-Jones, 1879-1954, who also lived in Egypt and Australia.

Prof. James Wood-Mason, 1846-93, Scottish zoologist working from 1877 at the Indian Museum at Calcutta, published reports upon collections made from H.M. Indian Marine Survey Steamer 'Investigator' during the season 1893-1894. He became sick during 1893 and was succeded by Alcock (q.v.) and transported home to Britain, but died in transit. Beside marine animals, he also collected Lepidoptera. See also John Anderson [Bathybembyx woodmasoni, E.A. Smith, 1895, Erugosquilla woodmasoni (Kemp 1911), Scalpellum woodmasoni Annandale, 1906, Verum woodmasoni (Annandale), Rectopalicus woodmasoni (Alcock, 1900), Heterocarpus woodmasoni Alcock, 1901, Coryphaenoides woodmasoni (Alcock, 1890), Ichnopus woodmasoni (Giles 1890), Bopyrione woodmasoni (Chopra 1923), Thalamita woodmasoni ].

Wendell Phillips Woodring, 1891-1983, US paleontologist [Murex woodringi Clench & Farfante, 1945, Splendrillia woodringi (Bartsch, 1934), Kylix woodringi McLean & Poorman, 1971].

The US ciliate researcher Lorande Loss Woodruff, 1879-1947, is honoured in the ciliate name Woodruffia Kahl, 1931.

Dr. Loren P. Woods, 19??-, curator of fishes between 1941-78 at FMNH, Chicago [Gobiopsis woodsi Lachner & McKinney, 1978, possibly Crispatotrochus woodsi (Wells, 1964), possibly Astrangia woodsi Wells, 1955].

Bernard Barham Woodward, (3 Aug. - St. Johns Wood) 1853-1930 (27 Oct.), English malacologist, who sometimes also published on other organisms, however, most often on non marine objects. He was the only son of Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward (see below) and after the early death of his father, he was forced to work as clerk in a bank, but left in 1873 to serve as Curator to the Geological Society, but left this in September 1876 to work at the Printed Book Department at the British Museum, but was moved in October 1881 to the new British Museum of Natural History, where he was much responsible for building up their very fine natural history library. He was married and widower twice, but left no children. His cousin Horace Bolingbroke Woodward, (20 Aug.) 1848-1914 (6 Feb.), (son of Samuel P. W. (see below)) was a naturalist (geologist) as well. They were given names matching their characters "Humble Bee" & "Bumble Bee" by their colleagues at the natural history museum in London.

Dr. Henry Woodward, (24 Nov.) 1832-1921 (6 Sep.), British paleontologist and geologist. Youngest son of the British geologist Samuel Woodward, (3 Oct. - Norwich) 1790-1838 (14 Jan. - Norwich). Appointed assistent in the Geology department of the British Museum in 1858, rising to First Class Assistent after the death of his brother Samuel P. W. (see below) and in 1880 succeding Waterhouse (q.v.) as keeper. Henry's youngest son Martin Fountain Woodward, 1865-1901 (15 Sep. - by drowning in the Irish Sea, when the boat, he and some colleagues sailed in collapsed in a sudden squall), was a malacologist and marine biologist as well. There is also another British geologist named Henry Page Woodward, (16 May - Norwich) 1858-1917 (8 Feb. - West Perth (by cancer)), who was the eldest son of the namesake, but left Britain in 1888 for Australia, where he became involved in the gold engineering. Sir Arthur Smith Woodward, (23 May - Macclesfield, Cheshire) 1864-1944 (2 Sep.), who published on fossil fishes of the British Museum (and was involved in the Piltdown man hoax) may possibly also have been a relative?

Prof. Samuel Pickworth Woodward, (17 Sep. - Norwich) 1821-65 (11 July - Herne Bay, Kent), British natural history worker and distinguished malacologist. Author of a "Manual of Conchology", son of the geologist Samuel Woodward and father of Horace Bolingbroke W. (see above). [Pickworthia Iredale,1917 (synonymized with Sansonia Jousseaume, 1892 - but belonging to fam. Pickworthiidae Iredale, 1917), Funchalia woodwardi Johnson, 1867, Carduus woodwardii Wats]. Henry Woodward (above) was his brother and another brother was the rev, (later queen Victoria's librarian) Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward, 1816-69. There is also a geologist at the BMNH named Bernard Henry Woodward, (31 Jan. - Islington, England) 1846-1916 (14 Oct. - Harvey, W. Australia), who was S.P.W.:s son (and thus elder brother of "Bumble Bee"), but he moved to W. Australia in 1889.

Thomas Jenkinson Woodward, 1745-1820 (or 1805?), British algologist [Hypoglossum woodwardii Kylin]. An earlier British collector of natural history objects was Sir John Woodward, 1665-1728.

The gastropod name Admete woodworthi (Dall, 1905) may possibly be a tribute to the US entomologist Charles William Woodworth, 1865-1940, or maybe a tribute to the US geologist Jay Backus Woodworth, 1865-1925, or perhaps more likely to the namesake below?

The polyclade name Asthenoceros woodworthi Laidlaw, 1903 is a tribute to the US Dr. William McMichael Woodworth, 1864-1912, who e.g. in 1894 reported on turbellarians in Albatross Report IX and in 1898 on planarians from the Great Barrier Reef of Australia.

Lacking information about Woolacott in the scaphopod name Dentalium woolacottae Lamprell & Healy, 1998.

R.C. Work, 19??-, is honoured in the gastropod name Anisodoris worki Marcus & Marcus, 1967, which was collected in Biscayne Bay, Florida by the honoured person.

Ole Worm, 1588-1654, Danish physician and the first scientificly working zoologist in Denmark. The "Wormian bones" of the skull are named for him and he also was a pioneer in prehistoric archaeology.

The algal name Urospora wormskioldii (Mertens ex Hornemann, 1816) Rosenvinge, 1892 is likely named for a Danish Lieutenant Morten Wormskiold, 1783-1845, who was on board the Russian brig Rurik in 1815 when it circumnavigated the world. Evidently he and Chamisso (q.v.) became good friends. Wormskiold also made botanical collections on Greenland. (Riccardo Giannuzzi-Savelli kindly informed about the identity of this eponym).

J(ack?) Worsfold, 19??-, collected type material of Macromphalina worsfoldi Rolan & Rubio, 1998 [Dermomurex (Dermomurex) worsfoldi Vokes, 1992]. He has e.g. also collected along the Grand Bahama Island.

Lacking information about Worthing in the kinorhynch name Echinoderes worthingi Southern, 1914.

Wosnes(s)enski : (see spelling Voznesenski).

F.W. Wotton, 1847-99, British amateur naturalist and shell collector, who became natural history tutor to the children of the Marquis of Bute in Cardiff.

Dr. Karel Wouters, (28 Nov.) 1944-, Belgian ostracod researcher and palaeontologist, who also is interested in terrestrial isopods [Aurila woutersi Horne, 1986].

The rotiferan name Cephalodella wrighti Wulfert, 1960 may possibly honour the meiobenthologist Kenneth A. Wright, 1936-92 (6 July).

The seagrass name Halodule wrightii Ascherson is honouring the US botanist Charles (Carlos) Wright, (29 Oct. - Wethersfield, Connecticut) 1811-85 (11 Aug. - Wethersfield), who collected the type in Cuba and is connected with marine biology also when he took part in Ringgold's North Pacific Expedition 1853-55. (See also). (David Hollombe, Los Angeles kindly provided this information).

Charles Seymore Wright : (see the Terra Nova expedition, 1910-).

Berlin Hart Wright, 1851-1940, US Malacologist. Likely the son of another US Malacologist, Samuel Hart Wright, 1825-1905.

Charles East Wright, 1850-1926, British Malacologist.

Dr. Edward Perceval Wright, 1834-1910, Prof. of Zoology, Trinity College, Dublin, was one of the early dredgers in deep water (800-900 m), Setubal Bay, Portugal. He also described a species of Pennella in 1870 and published on Irish sponges in 1869 and published on algae [Cocconeopsis wrightii (O'Meara, 1867) Witkowski & al., 2000].

Dr. Thomas Strethill Wright, 1818-76, Scottish naturalist and author, "zoophyte" researcher; described first Eudendrium wrighti Hartlaub,1905 [Wrightella Gray, 1870, likely Spiroplectinella wrightii (Silvestri, 1903), Discorbis wrightii (Brady, 1881), Spiroplectammina wrightii (Silvestri), Eponides wrighti, likely Ectopleura wrighti Petersen, 1979, likely Anadyomene wrightii Harvey].

Thomas Wright, 1809-84, published i.a. on British fossil echinoderrms.

The von Wright (pronunciation "fon vrikt", where i should be pronounced like the i in the name Eric) brothers from the Haminalaks farm - close to Kuopio, Savolax, Finland are likely not memorized in any marine organism names, but still deserves to be mentioned here because of their very essential naturalist artwork, which likely was inspired when the oldest brother at age 6 or 7 saw the illustrated book "Svensk Zoologi" by Palmstruch (q.v.) in the home of one of his fathers friend, which made an indelible impression. There were several more siblings (of which 9 - including the three artist brothers - reached adult age), but only Magnus ((13 June) 1805-68 (5 July)), Wilhelm ((5 Apr.) 1810-87 (2 July - Marieberg, Morlanda, Orust)) and their youngest sibling Ferdinand ((19 Mar.)1822-1906 (31 July)) became artists. Magnus understood that he could not make his living out of naturalist artwork in Finland, so at age 20 he went to Sweden, where he eventually in Dec. 1827 met count Nils Bonde, (1774-1838 (Oct)), who was interested in natural science, and then spent the rest of his Swedish sojourn at Mörkö a few km south of Stockholm in Sweden, where the count lived in his castle Hörningsholm. The count had the right to elect the vicar of the congregation, so he had chosen Carl Ulrik Ekström, ((25 Sep.) 1781-1858 (31 Mar.)), from Stockholm, who from his youth had been more interested in natural science than theology. Influenced by Ekström, the count contracted Magnus to make illustrations not only of birds and other natural objects in the area, as he had projected from the beginning, but of birds from all over Sweden. Magnus understood that this was a task for more than one person, so he asked his brother Wilhelm to come and help him. In this environment and under great influence from Ekström the two brothers painted and wrote their ornithological book "Svenska Foglar", edited by the patron of their arts count Bonde. The two oldest brothers had from early life followed their father on hunting expeditions and became very skilful hunters. They shot most of the birds used for their illustrations themselves, because they knew that colour of beaks, legs, eyes etc. in birds rapidly changed after the death , so they tried to use as fresh models as possible. Their very detailed pictures therefore looks more life-like than those made by contemporary artists like the well-known French-US bird and mammal artist John James Audubon ((26 Apr. - New Orleans) 1785-1851 (27 Jan. - Manhattan)) or the English ornithologist & artist John Gould ((14 Sep.) 1804-81 (3 Feb.)). Later they cooperated with Sven Nilsson (q.v.) regarding illustrations to his "Skandinavisk Fauna", but this cooperation was broken when they disagreed with Prof. Nilsson regarding both economy and certain zoological opinions. Magnus returned home to Finland in Oct. 1829, where i.a. he beside an employed duty as cartographer continued his ornithological paintings and studies. Wilhelm stayed in Sweden and continued i.a. to paint insects resulting in count Bonde's butterfly book "Svenska Fjärilar" (published in 1989 - 102 years years after the artist's death) and in 1835 he was employed by the KVA (Swedish Royal Academy of Science) as illustrator, painting mammals, flowers, bird's eggs and shells ("Fossila Snäckor" published in 1835, while the water-colour pictures of living shells still are unpublished), The shell paintings was in cooperation with Sven Lovén (q.v.). In 1835 he began a fish project in cooperation with C.U. Ekström (who after his parish time at Mörkö moved to Stenkyrka congregation in the island of Tjörn in Bohuslän at the Swedish west coast in 1837, where he continued to work until he died) and B.F. Fries (q.v.) (after Fries' death in 1839 Sundevall (q.v.) took over) eventually resulting in "Skandinaviens Fiskar" published 1836-57. He often for long periods visited Bohuslän at the Swedish west coast, e.g. together with Fries, where he could draw and paint marine animals and in 1845 he married and built a house at the large island Orust (close to Tjörn) there. He resigned from the KVA illustrator duty in 1848 and was not employed again until 1855, when he was employed as fisheries inspector. This became his unlucky fate, because he was supposed to confíscate equipment from poor fishermen who had no other support. This was the years after the great herring period of that century had come to an end, so there was very little to catch during this time. Wilhelm took this very hard, resulting in a stroke in 1856, making him bound to the bed for the rest of his life. Already from 1837 the youngest brother Ferdinand lived with Wilhelm in Sweden helping him with his different painting projects and during the last years of this decade they i.a. painted a lot of marine invertebrates (mainly still unpublished) from Bohuslän. In 1842 he for a short period studied art in Stockholm and in 1844 he returned to Finland. In the beginning of the 1850s he visited and worked for a long period again with Wilhelm at his home Marieberg (named after Wilhelm's wife Maria Bildt) at Orust, returning to Finland in 1852, but again visiting Wilhelm for a year in 1858. Then it took 23 years until he again in 1881 for the last time visited his brother during a month. In 1884 he was struck by stroke, making him bound to his bed for the rest of his life, but with ability to paint in bed. Wilhelm and not least Ferdinand are thus the brothers who mainly are connected with marine animals.

Lacking information about Wroblewski in the gastropod name Opalia wroblewskii (Mörch, 1876).

The Polish zoologist August Wrzesniowski, 1837-92, is honoured in the decapod name Euryrhynchus wrzesniowskii Miers, 1878 and in the ciliate name Holosticha wrzesniowskii (Mereschkowsky, 1877).

Professor Wu Bao-Ling, 1925-98 (5 Feb.), Chinese polychaete researcher, who was a disciple of Us(c)hakov (q.v.) in Russia between 1957-61, one of few of the Chinese of his time, who visited all continents, including the Antarctic [Pista wui Saphronova, 1988, Nereis baolingi de León-González & Solis-Weiss, 2000, Pettiboneia wui Carrasco & Palma, 2000, Ophryotrocha wubaolingi Miura, 1997].

The diatom name Fallacia wuestii (Simonsen, 1959) Sabbe & Muylaert, 1999 is possibly a tribute to the mycologist J. Wuest, 19??-,.

The German nanoplankton researcher Prof. Alfred Wulff, 1888-19??, is honoured in the ciliate name Strombidium wulffi Kahl, 1932.

The diatom name Navicula wunsamiae Witkowski, Lange-Bertalot & Metzeltin, 2000 is dedicated to the author's colleague Dr. Sybille Wunsam, 19??-, Canada.

Lacking information about Wurdemann in the Caribbean shrimp name Lysmata wurdemanni (Gibbes, 1850).and in the ophiuroid name Ophiophragmus wurdemani (Lyman, 1860) Lyman, 1865. Could the honoured person possibly be the US tidal observer Gustavus Wurdemann, 18??-1???, who was active at least during the 1850s?

Charles B. Wurtz, 1916-82, Philadelphia malacologist.

Wyatt : (see the Terra Nova expedition, 1910-).

Lacking information about the collector H.E. Wyeth in the cirripedian name Anguloscalpellum wyethi (Cornwall, 1951).

Gerhard Wülker, 1885-19??, published e.g. in 1910 in München on Japanese cephalopods and is honoured in the cephalopod name Grimpoteuthis wuelkeri Grimpe, 1920. Wülker published i.a. also on nematodes and kept publishang at least until 1952.

The foraminiferan name Fontbotia wuellerstorfi (Schwager, 1866) is likely honouring the vice admiral in the German fleet Bernhard Freiherr von Wüllerstorff-Urbair, 1816-83, commodore of the Austrian "Novara" circumnavigation 1857-59.

Lacking information about Wünnenberg in the ctenophore name Coeloplana wuennenbergi Fricke, 1970. Possibly it may be Wolf Wünnenberg, who in 1990 published the book "Physiologi des Winterschlafes".

Max Wütrich, 1924-96, Swiss Malacologist.

Wyville : (see Wyville Thomson).

Heinrich Wägele, 1895-1942, German Malacologist.

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