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Portrait of Wheeler North

Collectors

Wheeler North

American marine biologist and environmental scientist · 1922–2002

46 specimens, collected between 1962 and 1987 on 18 collecting days. Identified 1 specimens for others.

On the labels as North, W.J., North, Wheeler North.

Specimens
46
Type specimens
2
Years in the field
26
Islands
3
Species
35
Identifications
1
In the Library
0
Named after
2

Specimens by decade

1960s1980s

Earliest: Mazzaella coriacea, 1962 (Tampico Cove, south of Ensenada). Latest: Calliarthron cheilosporioides, 1987.

Named for North

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

Weeksia coccineaTitanophycus validusChampia parvulaParviphycus pannosusCodium arabicumDissimularia umbraticolaCarpopeltis bushiaeDichotomaria apiculataCodium geppiorumGalaxaura filamentosaMazzaella coriaceaValonia macrophysa

As a determiner

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