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John le


Died
  
1954

John Read le Brockton Tomlin

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John R. Le B. Tomlin's New Molluscan Names

John Read le Brockton Tomlin (15 August 1864 – 24 December 1954) was a British malacologist. He was one of the founders of the Malacological Society of London and was president of the Conchological Society of Great Britain & Ireland on two separate occasions.

Tomlin named more than a hundred taxa of gastropod molluscs, including:

  • The family Abyssochrysoidea Tomlin, 1927
  • The family Columbariidae Tomlin, 1928
  • He also named some scaphopods and bivalves.

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    John Read le Brockton Tomlin Wikipedia