Arthur Adams (1820 in

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, Hampshire – 1878) was an

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and naturalist. Adams was assistant surgeon Royal Navy on board HMS ''Samarang'' during the survey of the islands of the Eastern Archipelago, from 1843 to 1846. He edited the ''Zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Samarang'' (1850). Adam White collaborated with him in the descriptions of the

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from the voyage. In 1857, during the

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whilst serving as Surgeon on HMS ''Actaeon'', he was present at the storming of Canton and awarded the China War Medal. He retired as Staff Surgeon aboard flagship HMS ''Royal Adelaide'' at

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in 1870. He was a prolific

malacologist Malacology is the branch of invertebrate zoology that deals with the study of the Mollusca (mollusks or molluscs), the second-largest phylum of animals in terms of described species after the arthropods. Mollusks include snails and slugs, clams, ...

who described "hundreds of new species, most of them unillustrated and insufficiently diagnosed". He partly worked together with his brother

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(1813–1877) and together they wrote
The genera of recent mollusca: arranged according to their organization
' (three volumes, 1858). He also wrote ''Travels of a naturalist in Japan and Manchuria'' (1870), and an article about the interesting spiders seen on his travels.

Works

Species named after Arthur Adams

Finella adamsi ''Finella adamsi'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Family (from la, familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship ...

'' (Dall, 1889), '' Arcopsis adamsi'' (Dall, 1886), ''Hinnites adamsi'' Dall, 1886 (synonym of '' Pseudohinnites adamsi'' (Dall, 1886) ), ''

Brachidontes adamsianus ''Brachidontes'' is a genus of mussels in the family Mytilidae Mytilidae are a family of small to large marine and brackish-water bivalve molluscs in the order Mytilida. One of the genera, '' Limnoperna'', even inhabits freshwater environmen ...

'' (Dunker, 1857), '' Nucinella adamsi'' (Dall, 1898); likely ''

Natica adamsiana ''Natica'' is a genus of small to medium-sized predatory sea snails, marine gastropods in the subfamily Naticinae of the family Naticidae, the moon snails. The genus was erected by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in 1777.Gofas, S. (2011). Natica Scop ...

'' R. W. Dunker, 1860, possibly ''Octopus adamsi'' Benham, 1944 (synonym of ''

Octopus huttoni An octopus ( : octopuses or octopodes, see below for variants) is a soft-bodied, eight- limbed mollusc of the order Octopoda (, ). The order consists of some 300 species and is grouped within the class Cephalopoda with squids, cuttle ...

'' Benham, 1943), possibly ''

Zebrida adamsii ''Zebrida adamsii'' is a distinctively striped species of crab that lives in association with a sea urchin in the Indo-Pacific region. It is cryptically coloured with vertical stripes and has special adaptations to its legs to enable it to cl ...

'' White, 1847.Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names: Henry Adams

References

External links

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WoRMS : List with taxa named by Adams
{{DEFAULTSORT:Adams, Arthur English malacologists English taxonomists 1820 births 1878 deaths Conchologists British carcinologists English zoologists 19th-century British zoologists