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Portrait of Alex B. Anderson

Collectors

Alex B. Anderson

British surgeon and botanist · 1748–1811

466 specimens, collected between 1922 and 1987 on 41 collecting days, now held in 3 departments. Identified 6 specimens for others.

On the labels as Alex Anderson, A. Anderson, Anderson, A., Alec. Anderson, Anderson, A.B., Alex B. Anderson, Aalex Anderson, Aleck Anderson and 3 more.

Specimens
466
Type specimens
1
Years in the field
66
Islands
18
Species
197
Identifications
6
In the Library
0
Named after
0

Where Anderson collected

Specimens by decade

1920s1980s

Earliest: Cypraea lynx, 1922 (Palmyra Atoll). Latest: Cypraea sulcidentata, 1987.

From the field

Cypraea sulcidentataCypraea erosaTrochonaninaPartula subangulataCypraea helvolaGeorissaModulus tectumLamellideaTrochus intextusConus lividusMorula porphyorostomaTrochomorpha trochiformis

As a determiner

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