Charles Henry O'Donoghue

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FZS (23 September 1885 – 28 November 1961) was an

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zoologist who studied

molluscs Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil sp ...

, a

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, ...

. His publications mostly deal with

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and he also named a number of

Bryozoa Bryozoa (also known as the Polyzoa, Ectoprocta or commonly as moss animals) are a phylum of simple, aquatic invertebrate animals, nearly all living in sedentary colonies. Typically about long, they have a special feeding structure called a l ...

ns. A collection of over 700 items left to the

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is known as the O'Donoghue Collection.

Life

He was born in

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on 23 September 1885 the son of Charles Henry O'Donoghue. He studied zoology at the

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. From 1918 to 1927 he was Professor of Zoology at the

University of Manitoba The University of Manitoba (U of M, UManitoba, or UM) is a Canadian public research university in the province of Manitoba.Nanaimo Nanaimo ( ) is a city on the east coast of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada. As of the Canada 2021 Census, 2021 census, it had a population of 99,863, and it is known as "The Harbour City." The city was previously known as the "H ...

Vancouver Island Vancouver Island is an island in the northeastern Pacific Ocean and part of the Canadian Provinces and territories of Canada, province of British Columbia. The island is in length, in width at its widest point, and in total area, while are o ...

. He also helped to establish the Prince Rupert Island and Cultus Lake research stations. In 1928 he became a Reader in natural history at the

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. In 1928 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers were

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, John Stephenson,

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and

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. He won the Society's

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for the period 1929/31. From 1933 to 1936 he was President of the

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. In 1939 he moved to England as Professor of Zoology at

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, replacing Prof Francis Cole. In 1948 he was President of the Science Technologists Association. He taught in Winnipeg, Canada; and Edinburgh, Scotland. Most of the species he described were from the Pacific north-west of

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. He died in

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on 28 November 1961.

Taxa

Species named in honor of this malacologist include: * ''Acanthobothrium odonoghuei'' Campbell & Beveridge, 2002 - a

platyhelminth The flatworms, flat worms, Platyhelminthes, or platyhelminths (from the Greek πλατύ, ''platy'', meaning "flat" and ἕλμινς (root: ἑλμινθ-), ''helminth-'', meaning "worm") are a phylum of relatively simple bilaterian, unsegmen ...

* ''Cradoscrupocellaria odonoghuei'' Vieira, Spencer Jones & Winston, 2013 - a bryozoan * ''Doris odonoghuei'' Steinberg, 1963 - a

nudibranch Nudibranchs () are a group of soft-bodied marine gastropod molluscs which shed their shells after their larval stage. They are noted for their often extraordinary colours and striking forms, and they have been given colourful nicknames to matc ...

* ''Prochristianella odonoghuei'' Beveridge, 1990 - a

The

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(WoRMS) lists 186 marine taxa named by O'Donoghue.WoRMS: Species named by O'Donoghue
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Publications

;Books *''Zoomorphology'' (1917) *''An Introduction to Zoology'' (1921) *''The Fishery Grounds Near Alexandria: Bryozoa'' (1939) ;Papers Scientific papers published by Charles O'Donoghue include: * O'Donoghue, Charles Henry. 1921. Nudibranchiate Mollusca from the Vancouver Island region. Transactions of the Royal Canadian Institute 13(1):147-209, pls. 7-11 -5 * O'Donoghue, C. H. 1922. Notes on the nudibranchiate Mollusca from the Vancouver Island region. I. Colour variations. Transactions of the Royal Canadian Institute 14(1):123-130, pl. 2. * O'Donoghue, C. H. 1922a. Notes on the nudibranchiate Mollusca from the Vancouver Island region. III. Records of species and distribution. Transactions of the Royal Canadian Institute 14(1):145-167, pls. 5-6. * O'Donoghue, C. H. 1922b. Notes on the taxonomy of nudibranchiate Mollusca from the Pacific coast of North America. I. On the identification of Cavolina (i.e. Hermissenda) crassicornis of Eschscholtz. Nautilus 35(3):74-77. * O'Donoghue, C. H. 1922c. Notes on the taxonomy of nudibranchiate Mollusca from the Pacific coast of North America. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 15(2,3):133-150. ** I On ''Cavolina crassicornis'' and ''C. subrosacea'', of Eschscholtz, pp. 133–136. ** II On the genus ''Triopha'', Bergh, pp. 136–138. ** III On ''Flabellina (Aeolis) iodinea'', Cooper, and on ''Thecacera velox'', Cockerell, pp. 138–140. ** IV On ''Janolus (Aeolis) barbarensis'', Cooper, and on the ''Aeolidia herculea'' of Bergh, pp. 140–142. ** V On the family Doriopsidae (Doridopsidae), pp. 142–145. ** VI On ''Fiona marina'', Forskal, pp. 145–147. ** VII On ''Melibe (Chioraera) leonina'', Gould, pp. 147–150. * O'Donoghue, C. H. 1924. Notes on the nudibranchiate Mollusca from the Vancouver Island region. IV. Additional species and records. Transactions of the Royal Canadian Institute 15(1):1-33, pls. 1-2. * O'Donoghue, C. H. 1924a. Report on Opisthobranchiata from the Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia, with description of a new parasitic copepod. Journal of the Linnean Society of London 35:521-579, pls. 27-30. * O'Donoghue, C. H. 1926. A list of the nudibranchiate Mollusca recorded from the Pacific coast of North America, with notes on their distribution. Transactions of the Royal Canadian Institute 15(2):199-247. * O'Donoghue, C. H. 1926a. On the status of the nudibranch genera ''Amphorina'', ''Cratena'', ''Eubranchus'', and ''Galvina''. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 17(3):127-131. * O'Donoghue, C. H. 1927. Notes on the nudibranchiate Mollusca from the Vancouver Island region. V. Two new species and one new record. Transactions of the Royal Canadian Institute 16(1):1-12, pl. 1. * O'Donoghue, C. H. 1927a. Notes on a collection of nudibranchs from Laguna Beach, California. Journal of Entomology & Zoology, Pomona College 19(1-4):77-119, pls. 1-3. * O'Donoghue, C. H. 1929. XXXVIII. Report on the Opisthobranchia. In: Zoological results of the Cambridge Expedition to the Suez Canal, 1924. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. 22(6):713-841. * O'Donoghue, C. H. 1929a. Opisthobranchiate Mollusca collected by the South African Marine Biological Survey. Union of South Africa. Fisheries & Marine Biological Survey Report No. 7 for the year ending June 1929, pp. 1–84, pls. 1-8. Special Reports No. 1. * O'Donoghue, C. H. 1932. Notes on Nudibranchiata from southern India. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 20:141-166. * O'Donoghue, C. H. 1933. Kelaart's work on the Nudibranchiata of Ceylon. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 20(4):221-226, pl. 19. * O'Donoghue, C. H., & Elsie O'DONOGHUE. 1922. Notes on the nudibranchiate Mollusca of the Vancouver Island region. II. The spawn of certain species. Transactions of the Royal Canadian Institute 14(1):131-143, pls. 3-4. * O'Donoghue, C. H., & Kathleen M. WHITE. 1940. A collection of marine molluscs, mainly opisthobranchs, from Palestine. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 24(3):92-96.

References

* La Rocque, A., 1962. ''Contributions to the history of Canadian malacology''. Sterkiana 6: 23-39. {{DEFAULTSORT:ODonoghue, Charles Henry 1885 births 1961 deaths English malacologists 20th-century British zoologists University of Manitoba faculty Academics of the University of Reading