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Name
  
Henry Hemphill


Henry Hemphill

Died
  
1914, Oakland, California, United States

Henry Hemphill (1830–1914) was an American malacologist, a biologist who studies mollusks. In particular he studied land and freshwater mollusca.

Taxa

He named and described many molluscan taxa, including:

  • Fluminicola columbiana Hemphill in Pilsbry, 1899 - a freshwater snail
  • Helminthoglypta walkeriana (Hemphill, 1911)

    • A number of taxa were named after Hemphill, including:

  • Hemphillia Bland & Binney, 1872, a land slug genus

    • References

    Henry Hemphill Wikipedia
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