Clea Annesleyi
''Nassodonta annesleyi'' is a species of brackish water snail, with gills and an operculum (gastropod), operculum, a gastropod mollusk in the family Nassariidae. The specific name ''annesleyi'' is in honour of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Annesley Benson (1831–1906) of the 45th Regiment of Madras Army#Madras Native Infantry, Madras Native Infantry, who collected those snails. Distribution India. References

Nassariidae Gastropods described in 1861 {{Nassariidae-stub ...
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William Henry Benson
William Henry Benson (1803, probably in Dublin - 27 January 1870) was a civil servant in British India and an amateur malacologist. He made large collections of molluscs and described numerous speciesNaggs F. (1997). "William Benson and the early study of land snails in British India and Ceylon". ''Archives of Natural History'' 24(1): 37-88PDF from the U.K., India and South Africa. He joined Haileybury College in 1819 and joined the East India Company at Bengal. He reached Calcutta on 30 October 1821 and worked in a number of positions including a District Collector and Officiating Judge in Meerut, Bareilly and other parts of northern India. During his stay in India he collected specimens of numerous land snails some of which he sent to Hugh Cuming in England. On the return from a trip to Mauritius he brought a couple of living ''Achatina fulica'' which he gave to a friend in Calcutta in April 1847 who subsequently released them in a garden at Chowringhee. The species is today a ...
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