William Greene Binney (October 22, 1833 – August 3, 1909) was an American attorney known for his avocation as 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, ...
, working mostly during the second half of the nineteenth century. He was responsible for volumes 4 and 5 of ''The Terrestrial Air-Breathing Mollusks of the United States'',
[Binney, William G. 1878. The Terrestrial Air-Breathing Mollusks of the United States. Vol. 5. Cambridge MA: Harvard College Museum of Comparative Zoology.] a task he took over from his father,
Amos Binney
Amos Binney (October 18, 1803 – February 18, 1847) was an American physician and malacologist."Amos Binney" http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/~ksc/Malacologists/BinneyA.html accessed 31 May 2012.
Biography
His son was William G. Binney.
He was a ...
, and collaborator,
Augustus Addison Gould
Augustus Addison Gould (April 23, 1805 – September 15, 1866) was an American conchologist and malacologist.
Biography
Born in New Ipswich, New Hampshire, he was the son of music teacher Nathaniel Duren Gould (1781–1864) who was also noted ...
. The ninety engraved plates which were part of volume 5, illustrating most of the then known land mollusk
fauna
Fauna is all of the animal life present in a particular region or time. The corresponding term for plants is ''flora'', and for fungi, it is '' funga''. Flora, fauna, funga and other forms of life are collectively referred to as '' biota''. Zoo ...
, are particularly noteworthy.
Binney's obituary in the ''New York Times'' included the following information:
Taxa
Taxa named in honor of Binney include:
* ''
Nesovitrea binneyana
''Nesovitrea binneyana'', common name the blue glass snail, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Oxychilidae, the glass snails.
This species is named in honor of the American malacolo ...
'' (
E. S. Morse, 1864)
Bibliography
* The terrestrial air-breathing mollusks of the United States, and the adjacent territories of North America''
** Binney W. G. (1859
Volume 4** Binney W. G. (July 1878
Volume 5Plates.
References
External links
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1833 births
1909 deaths
Writers from Boston
19th-century American zoologists
American malacologists
Harvard University alumni