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John Read le Brockton Tomlin (15 August 1864 – 24 December 1954) was a British "J. R. le B. Tomlin, 1864–1954"
Conchological Society of Great Britain & Ireland. accessed 4 October 2010. Tomlin named more than a hundred
"New molluscan names proposed by J. R. le B. Tomlin"
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John Read le Brockton Tomlin (15 August 1864 – 24 December 1954) was a British 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, ...
. He was one of the founders of the Malacological Society of London
The Malacological Society of London is a British learned society and charitable organisation concerned with malacology, the study of molluscs, a large phylum of invertebrate animals divided into nine or ten taxonomic classes, of which two ar ...
and was president of the Conchological Society of Great Britain & Ireland
The Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland is a British-based society concerned with the study of molluscs and their shells. It was founded in 1876, and is one of the oldest such societies in the world. It is a registered UK charity (n ...
on two separate occasions.Conchological Society of Great Britain & Ireland. accessed 4 October 2010. Tomlin named more than a hundred
taxa
In biology, a taxon (back-formation from ''taxonomy''; plural taxa) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit. Although neither is required, a taxon is usually known by a particular nam ...
of gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusc
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 species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is esti ...
s, including:
* The family Abyssochrysoidea Tomlin, 1927
* The family Columbariidae
Columbariidae, known as pagoda shells, are a family of large deepwater sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Turbinelloidea. Some 60 extant species have been described.
This family was previously considered a subfamily (Col ...
Tomlin, 1928
He also named some scaphopods and bivalves
Bivalvia (), in previous centuries referred to as the Lamellibranchiata and Pelecypoda, is a class of marine and freshwater molluscs that have laterally compressed bodies enclosed by a shell consisting of two hinged parts. As a group, bival ...
.
References
Further reading
* Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 16(1): frontispiece ortrait924
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Year 924 (Roman numerals, CMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
* Byzantine–Bulgarian war of 913–927, Byzantine–Bulg ...
* Anonymous, 1955. J. R. le B. Tomlin. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (Series C, Journal of Meetings) 19(11): 69-70.
* E. A. Salisbury, 1955. Obituary. J. R. le B. Tomlin, 1864-1954. Journal of Conchology 24(2): 29-39, pl. 2 ortrait; list of taxa
* H. O. Ricketts & A. E. Salisbury, 1954. List of papers on Mollusca and obituaries of conchologists published by the late J. R. le B. Tomlin. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 31(3-4): 87-94.
* A. E. Salisbury, 1955. J. R. le B. Tomlin, 1864-1954. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 31(3-4): 85-87.
* Abbott, 1963: 29. Barnard, 1965: 30.
* S. P. Dance, 1971. The Melvill-Tomlin shell collection: legacy of a great collector. Amgueddfa (Cardiff) 8: 27-33.
* Cleevely, 1983 288-289. Dance, 1986: 174-175, 228. Trew, 1987: 82.
* N. McMillan, 1990. John Reade icLe Brockton Tomlin (1864–1954). The Conchologists' Newsletter 113: 291-292.
* A. Trew, 1990. John R. le B. Tomlin’s new molluscan names. Cardiff: National Museum of Wales, 101 pp.
* Trew, 1993: 85.
* A. N. van der Bijl, 1995. Het kontakt van M. M. Schepman met J. C. Melvill en J. R. le B. Tomlin. Correspondentieblad van de Nederlandse Malacologische Vereniging 285: 86-92.
* Fouché, 1995: 10.
* J. E. Chatfield, 1998. Shells at Hastings: the shell collections at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, East Sussex. The Conchologists' Newsletter 147: 90-102.
* Muñiz Solís, 2002: 278.
* J. Gallichan, 2003. Documenting the past: insights into the Tomlin archive. Mollusc World 3: 11.
* J. Gallichan, 2007. Documenting the past: the Tomlin Archive. P. 68, in: K. Jordaens, et al., eds., World Congress of Malacology Antwerp 15–20 July 2007, Abstracts, lxxix + 298 pp.
External links
"New molluscan names proposed by J. R. le B. Tomlin"
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tomlin, John 1864 births 1954 deaths British malacologists