Charles C. Christensen

New Zealand botanist · 1876–1938

1,198 specimens, collected between 1911 and 1997 on 114 collecting days, now held in 4 departments. Identified 543 specimens for others.

On the labels as Carl C. Christensen, Christensen, C., Christensen, Charles Christensen, Christensen, C.F.A., C.C. Christensen, Charles C. Christensen, Christensen, Charles and 4 more.

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Specimens: 1,198
Type specimens: 162
Years in the field: 87
Islands: 11
Species: 234
Identifications: 543
In the Library: 15
Named after: 2

Where Christensen collected

Specimens by decade

1910s1990s

Earliest: Tectaria cicutaria, 1911. Latest: Cyanea fissa, 1997.

In the Library

Publications in the Library whose author line carries this name.

2023
A note on the snail host of Ascotyle felippei Travassos, 1928 (Dignea: Heterophyidae), a parasite of Hawaiian stream fishes
Christensen, C.C. · In: Evenhuis, N.L. (ed.), Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2022. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 148: 185-188.
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2023
New records of Otala lactea (Müller, 1774) and Zachrysia provisoria (Pfeiffer, 1858) in Hawaii: using collaborative networks to combat invasive sleeper populations
Hayes, K.A., C.C. Christensen, J.R. Kim, C.M. Kishimoto, J.N. Matsunaga, and N.W. Yeung · BioInvasions Records
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2023
A note on the snail host of Ascocotyle felippei Travasso, 1928 (Digenea: Heterophyidae), a parasite of Hawaiian stream fishes
Christensen, C.C. · Bishop Museum Occasional Papers
Museum research publication
2021
Taxonomy, conservation, and the future of native aquatic snails in the Hawaiian Islands
Christensen, C.C., Hayes, K.A. & Yeung, N.W. · Diversity: in press.
Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey
2019
Should we open this can of worms?
Christensen, C.C. · A call for caution regarding use of the nematode Phasmarhabditis hermaphrodita for control of pest slugs and snails in the United States. Tentacle 27: 2-4.
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2019
New records of Clusiliidae: Tauphaedusa tau (Boettger, 1877) (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) on O‘ahu, Hawaiian Islands, and the first global record of infection of a clausiliid land snail with Angiostrongylus cantonensis (Chen, 1935), the rat lungworm
Cowie, R.H., Rollins, R.L., Medeiros, M.C.I. & Christensen, C.C. · In: Evenhuis, N.L., ed., Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2018. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 126: 11-18.
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2017
Notes on three erroneous referrals of non-Hawaiian fossil nonmarine gastropods to endemic Hawaiian genera and species
Christensen, C.C. · In: Evenhuis, N.L., Ed., Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2016. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 119: 15-17.
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2016
Alien freshwater clams in the Hawaiian Islands
Christensen, C.C. · In: Evenhuis, N.L, ed., Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2015. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 118: 1-4.
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2016
Change of Status and Name for a Hawaiian Freshwater Limpet: Ancylus sharpi Sykes, 1900, is the Invasive North American Ferrissia californica (Rowell, 1863), Formerly Known as Ferrissia fragilis (Tryon, 1863) (Gastropoda: Planorbidae: Ancylinae)
Christensen, C.C. · In: Evenhuis, N.L, ed., Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2015. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 118: 5-8.
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2015
Type Species Designation for Pelagolimnaea Germain, 1928, and a Correction Regarding the Type Species of Pseudisidora Thiele, 1931 (Gastropoda: Basommatophora: Lymnaeidae)
Christensen, C.C. · In: Evenhuis, N.L. & Miller, S.E. (eds.), Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2014. Part I: Articles. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 116: 53-56.
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2014
Melania baldwini Ancey, 1899, synonymized with Melanoides tuberculata (Müller, 1774) (Gastropoda: Thiaridae)
Christensen, C.C. · In: Evenhuis, N.L., ed., Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2013. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 115: 33-34. [
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2013
Hawaiian land snail records: Lyropupa cookei Clench, 1952 (Pulmonata: Vertiginidae) and Strobilops aeneus Pilsbry, 1926 (Pulmonata: Strobilopsidae)
Christensen, C.C. · In: Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds.), Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2012. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 114: 39–42.
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2013
In: Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds.), Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2012
Christensen, C.C. · Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 114: 43-48.
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2012
First Records of Paralaoma servilis (Shuttleworth, 1852) (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Punctidae) in the Hawaiian Islands
Christensen, C.C., Yeung, N.W. & Hayes, K.A. · In: Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds.), Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2011. Part I. - Animals. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 112: 3-7.
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1995
Catalog of the native land and freshwater molluscs of the Hawaiian Islands
Cowie, R.H., Evenhuis, N.L. & Christensen, C.C. · Backhuys Publishers, Leiden. vi + 248 p.
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Named for Christensen

Taxa in the collection whose epithet is formed from the name Christensen. The naming author’s intent is not recorded, so where several collectors share a surname they are listed under the best-known one.

From the field

As a determiner

543 specimens carry this name as the person who identified them. Most often: