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Haliotis Pourtalesii
''Haliotis pourtalesii'', common name Pourtale's abalone, is a rare species of deepwater sea snail, a marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusk in the family Haliotidae, the abalones.Rosenberg, G. (2010). Haliotis pourtalesii Dall, 1881. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=419376 on 2011-09-06 Subspecies * ''Haliotis pourtalesii aurantium'' Simone, 1998 * ''Haliotis pourtalesii pourtalesii'' Dall, 1881 Distribution The known distribution for ''Haliotis pourtalesii'' reported in the literature puts it in a range that extends from the coast of North Carolina to Florida in the United States of America and from there through the Gulf of Mexico, to Cuba, the Caribbean coasts of Colombia, Venezuela and Suriname), the West Indies and to the shores of Brazil. Description The maximum recorded gastropod shell, shell length is 30 mm.Welch J. J. (2010). "The “Island Rule” and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Agassiz
Alexander Emmanuel Rodolphe Agassiz (December 17, 1835March 27, 1910), son of Louis Agassiz and stepson of Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, was an American scientist and engineer. Biography Agassiz was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland and immigrated to the United States with his parents, Louis and Cecile (Braun) Agassiz, in 1846. He graduated from Harvard University in 1855, subsequently studying engineering and chemistry, and taking the degree of Bachelor of Science at the Lawrence Scientific School of the same institution in 1857; in 1859 became an assistant in the United States Coast Survey. Thenceforward he became a specialist in marine ichthyology. Agassiz was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1862. Up until the summer of 1866, Agassiz worked as assistant curator in the museum of natural history that his father founded at Harvard. E. J. Hulbert, a friend of Agassiz's brother-in-law, Quincy Adams Shaw, had discovered a rich copper lode known as the C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
