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Portrait of Henry Hemphill

Collectors

Henry Hemphill

American malacologist · 1830–1914

434 specimens, collected between 1875 and 1951 on 5 collecting days, now held in 2 departments.

On the labels as H. Hemphill, Henry Hemphill, Hemphill, H., Hemphill, Henry, Hemphill.

Specimens
434
Type specimens
0
Years in the field
77
Islands
2
Species
427
Identifications
0
In the Library
0
Named after
4

Where Hemphill collected

Specimens by decade

1870s1950s

Earliest: Neoptilota hypnoides, 1875 (Bolinas). Latest: Succinea, 1951.

Named for Hemphill

Taxa in the collection whose epithet is formed from the name Hemphill. 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

Margarita papillaAnodonta pavoniaLacuna unifasciataTrochus tricolorCumingia californicaLimnaea emarginataMurex luridansSuccinea mooresianaAulopoma helicinumNucella emarginataAemaea asmiSchizotherus nuttallii