Onoba Exarata
''Onoba exarata'' is a species of minute sea snail, a marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family (biology), family Rissoidae. Distribution Description The maximum recorded gastropod shell, shell length is 3.3 mm.Welch J. J. (2010). "The "Island Rule" and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". ''PLoS ONE'' 5(1): e8776. . Habitat Minimum recorded depth is 5 m. Maximum recorded depth is 5 m. References

Rissoidae Gastropods described in 1851 {{Rissoidae-stub ...
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William Stimpson
William Stimpson (February 14, 1832 – May 26, 1872) was a noted American scientist. He was interested particularly in marine biology. Stimpson became an important early contributor to the work of the Smithsonian Institution and later, director of the Chicago Academy of Sciences. Biography Stimpson was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Herbert Hathorne Stimpson and Mary Ann Devereau Brewer. The Stimpsons were of the colonial stock of Massachusetts, the earliest known member of the family being James Stimpson, who was married in 1661, in Milton. His mother died at an early age. William Stimpson's father was an ingenious inventor, and a leading merchant of Boston in the mid decades of the nineteenth century, trading as "H. & F. Stimpson, stoves and furnaces, corner of Congress and Water Streets. It was he who invented the "Stimpson range", the first sheet-iron cooking stove, famous in its day throughout New England. He also made improvements in rifles, and suggested the placin ...
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