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Portrait of Jens Mathias Ostergaard Ex J.R. Le B. Tomlin

Collectors

Jens Mathias Ostergaard Ex J.R. Le B. Tomlin

British malacologist · 1864–1954

277 specimens, collected between 1917 and 1933 on 17 collecting days.

On the labels as J.R. Le B Tomlin, Tomlin, J.R. Le B., J.R. Le B. Tomlin, Tomlin, J.R.Le B Tomlin, J.R.Le B. Tomlin, J.M. Ostergard Ex Tomlin, Jens M. Ostergaard Ex J.R. Le B Tomlin and 8 more.

Specimens
277
Type specimens
5
Years in the field
17
Islands
16
Species
213
Identifications
0
In the Library
0
Named after
2

Where Tomlin collected

Specimens by decade

1910s1930s

Earliest: Carnina fluctuata, 1917 (Philippines). Latest: Trochonanina angulifera, 1933.

Named for Tomlin

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

Trochonanina subvernosaCantharidus lineolarisGibbula spureaGibbulaPartula spadiceaUmbonium conicumMonodonta excavataAchatinellaGibbula richardiCardium rackettiSimpulum doliariusLamprocystis venosa