Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names. P

Odostomia paardekoperi Van Aartsen, Gittenberger & Goud, 1998 was named for L.S. (Lou) Paardekooper, 1916-1966, member of the former Dutch mollusca working group.

Prof. Eystein Karl Mørner Paasche, (17 Sep. - Oslo) 1932-, Norwegian algologist, who was professor of Marine Botany in Oslo.

The gastropod name Alvania paatsi Hoenselaar & Goud, 1998 is named after the technician Mr. J.J.P. Paats, 19??-, for his participation in the CANCAP-expedition for marine biological research in the Canarian-Cape Verdean region of the North Atlantic Ocean (1976-1986). (Curator Henk K. Mienis, Tel Aviv Univ., kindly provided this information).

Stephan Ion Pace, (22 Nov. - London) 1872-1941 (13 Dec. - London), English malacologist (a student of Columbellidae), director of the Marine Biological Association of the W of Scotland , i.e. Millport, where he arrived from Plymouth in June 1905 until 1907 (when he resigned and was replaced by R. Elmhirst (q.v.)) [Columbella pacei E.A. Smith, 1895; also Columbella pacei Melvill & Standen, 1896, renamed C. stephani Melvill & Standen, 1897, after realizing that their first name was preoccupied ], in January 1904 married to the marine biologist Rose Mable Clark, 18??-19??, who worked on hydroids and bryozoans. He also studied holothurians, describing i.a. Cucumaria normani, a synonym of Aslia lefevrei. He was considered to dislike amateur researchers. From 1897 and three years he had been in Torres Strait and surroundings to conduct experiments with pearls in the pearl industry. After Millport he went to London, working part-time at the British Museum (Nat. Hist.), where his very good friend E.A. Smith (q.v.) was working. He took part in WWI, but later suffering from severe headaches, he never could continue his research work. Another namesake is the stalwart South Florida collector Robert (Bob) Pace, 19??-, from Miami [Ancilla (Amalda) pacei Petuch, 1987, Coralliophila pacei Petuch, 1987, Terebra (Strioterebrum) pacei Petuch, 1987, Conus pacei Petuch, 1987, Trivia (Niveria) pacei Petuch, 1987, Modulus pacei Petuch, 1987, Cerithium muscarum pacei Petuch, 1987, Cyclotheca pacei Petuch, 1987, Dermomurex pacei E. J. Petuch, 1988, Favartia pacei E. J. Petuch, 1988 (several of these species named for Pace's exploratory collecting in the Bimini area [thank you Riccardo Giannuzzi-Savelli for this information and for the information about Mrs. Alice Pace below])]. Mrs. Alice Pace, 19??-, Miami, may likely be R. Pace's wife and she is honoured in the names Muricopsis aliceae Petuch, 1987 and Cerithium eburneum aliceae Petuch, 1987. (Andrew Vik, Tampa, Florida kindly provided most of the information about R. Pace).

A. Pack (possibly identical with the US educator Arthur Newton Pack, (20 Feb. - Cleveland, Ohio) 1893-1975 (6 Dec.)), published on ciliates from the Great Salt Lake in 1919 and is honoured in the ciliate name Strongylidium packi Calkins, 1919.

Dr. Alpheus Spring Packard Jr., (19 Feb. - Brunswick, Maine) 1839-1905 (14 Feb.), was Professor of Zoology and Geology (from 1878) at Brown University (Rhode Island, USA) and professor of Biology and Geology at Bodwin College, Maine. As a boy, he collected and read about molluscs and their shells, encouraged by his father Prof. Alpheus Spring Packard Sr, 1798-1884, a professor of classical languages. Packard was well-known at this time in the Boston Society of Natural History, and was acquainted with Louis Agassiz (q.v.), A.A. Gould (q.v.), S. F. Baird (q.v.), and other mid-century naturalists in USA. Packard attended Harvard with Agassiz as his teacher. His youthful interests expanded to insects, fishes, and general marine zoology, a precursor of his adult contributions. He did well in so many fields that it is difficult to characterize any specialty. He traveled widely, forming strong connections with foreign scholars. One of the last of his 500+ publications was a biography (1901) of his intellectual hero Lamarck (q.v.). Packard is honored by his name attached to 3 insect genera and at least 39 (mostly insect) species. Within these is the amphipod Monoculodes packardi Boeck, 1870 [Pleurotomella packardii Verrill, 1872]. (Dr. D. Damkaer kindly provided this information).

Dr. Earl Leroy Packard, 1885-1983?, US palaeontologist and malacologist at the Univ. of Oregon. A memorial poster arrived in 1981.

The ascidian name Styela paessleri Michaelsen,1898 must be a tribute to captain Richard Paessler, 1862?-19?? (died between 1925-1950), Hamburg, of the German merchant marine, who collected much along South America, the Antarctic, etc. for the Hamburg Museum and also himself published some observations on ornithology.

Friedrich Paetel, 1812-1888, German malacologist.

Dr. Frederick C. Page, 19??-, British gymnamoebae researcher at the Culture Centre of Algae and Protozoa, Cambridge, is honoured in th amoeba name Pseudoparamoeba pagei (Sawyer, 1975).

Prof. Dr. Heinrich Alexander Pagenstecher, (18 Mar. - Elberfeld) 1825-1889 (4 Jan. - Hamburg), professor of zoology in Heidelberg, started his career as physician in Barmen, before he moved to Heidelberg in 1860 (became in 1862 Ph D in Tübingen and from 1866 full professor of Zoology and Palaeontology in Heidelberg). Later (in 1882) he moved to his wife's home city Hamburg and founded the Natural History Museum there, becoming its first director. [Janua pagenstecheri (de Quatrefages, 1866), Lumbricillus pagenstecheri (Ratzel, 1869), Henricia pagenstecheri (Studer)]. A namesake and far away relative, Dr. Arnold Andreas Friedrich Pagenstecher, (25 Dec. - Dillenburg) 1837-1913 (11 June - Wiesbaden), Wiesbaden, was an entomologist and lepidopterologist. (Cédric Audibert, Muséum, CCEC, Lyon, kindly corrected an error).

Dr. Francesc Pagès Hernández, (6 July - Barcelona) 1962-2007 (5 May - Palma de Mallorca), Spanish specialist on gelatinous zooplankton.

The gastropod name Proterato pagoboi Cossignani & Cossignani, 1997 may likely be a tribute to Eduardo (Eddie) J. Pagobo, 19??-, Philippine shell dealer, who was active for more than 20 years together with Rodulof "Rudy" Pagobo, 19??-, & Victor Pagobo, 19??-, in Mactan Island. Their activities led to the discovery of many new species. [Vaceuchelus pagoboorum  Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006]. (G. Poppe kindly provided this information).

Ronald Boyet Pagobo, 19??-, Philippine dealer who’s activities led to the discovery of several new species. [Clanculus boyeti  Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006]. (G. Poppe kindly provided this information).

Thomas "Tom" Pain, (13 Oct. - Brentwood, Essex) 1915-2003 (2 June), British shell collector, is honoured in the gastropod name Chicoreus (Triplex) paini Houart, 1983.

Lacking information about Paine in the gastropod names Ocenebra painei (Dall, 1903) and Rictaxis painei Dall, 1903. A hobby entomologist, Charles Jackson Paine, (17 June - Weston, Massachusetts) 1876-1926 (4 Aug. - Vanceboro, Maine), businessman and banker is likely not the honoured person, but possibly John Howard Paine, (9 Sep. - Cleveland, Ohio) 1888-19??, (not identical with the identical namesake, the author of the well known "Home Sweet Home", who lived between 1792-1852), who in his teens was collecting mollusks together with the 8 years older Lowe (q,v.) assisted by mother and daughter Fancher and Fancher Sawin (see Fancher) studied by Dall (and later a disciple of V.L. Kellogg (q.v.)), or perhaps - considering his young age at the time - rather to his father Charles C. Paine. (28 Mar. - Painesville, Ohio) 1848- 19??, - and the Los Angeles Times credited the work to John's father:  "Avalon, July 14, Commodore C. C. Paine has begun a series of biological researches in the waters hereabouts.  He has procured a deep-sea dredge and is bringing up from the ocean depths things new, strange and beautiful.". C.C. Paine had been a soldier in the Civil War and the son John later studied entomology at Stanford (A.B. in 1912) as a student of V.L. Kellogg (see Heath) and published on Mallophaga and Lepidoptera at least until 1917. He worked for U.S. Dept. of Agriculture until about 1919 and as a portrait photographer during the 1920s. In 1931 he is listed as production manager in Washington, DC for Underwood & Underwood (photography). (David Hollombe, Los Angeles, kindly provided the lead to which Paine who is the most likely honouree and much of this information)

Dr. Daniel Pajaud, (21 Dec. - Paris) 1934-2003 (13 Nov. (by cancer induced by asbestos from his working place at the Univ. in Paris)), French naturalist interested in Brachiopoda, who is honoured in the SE Atlantic brachiopod genus name Pajaudina Logan, 1988.

Lacking information about Palar in the Weddell Sea cephalopod name Eledone palari Lu & Stranks, 1992.

Stefano Palazzi, (12 Dec.) 1959-, Catania-born Italian amateur conchologist in Modena, who claims (Dec. 2000) that he has retired from active research (so far having published more than 70 malacological papers) - working as webmaster [Palazzia Warén, 1991, Chrysallida palazzii Micali, 1984, Gibberula palazzii Cossignani, 2001, Megalomphalus palazzii Baluk, 2006]. (Dr. Riccardo Giannnuzzi-Savelli kindly provided the photo and Palazzi himself kindly provided the last eponyms).

Dr. Rosa E. Pallares, 19??-, Argentinian copepodologist, who began publishing during the mid 1960s [Mesochra pallaresi Soyer, 1977].

Paul Maurice Pallary, (9 Mar. - Mers-el-Kebir, Algeria) 1869-1942 (9 Jan. - Oran), French-Algerian malcologist working mainly in the W Mediterranean area [Turbonilla pallaryi Dautzenberg, 1910, Mitrella pallaryi Dautzenberg, 1927, Mangelia pallaryi Nordsieck, 1977].

Prof. Dr. Peter Simon (Pyotr Simonovich) Pallas, (22 Sep. - Berlin) 1741-1811 (8 Sep. - Berlin), German biologist, who got his education in Göttingen and Leiden, partly active in the British Isles and in the Netherlands. His dissertation in Leiden treated intestinal worms and he became Professor of Natural History in 1767, but he is most renowned for beeing contracted by the Russian government in 1768 to travel through Siberia during 6 years, where he collected huge amounts of material, which he later worked up and described in St Petersburg after returning there 30 July 1774. In 1793 he again was sent on a new expedition to the Crimea area, where he, his wife and daughter stayed during several years in an estate given to him by the emperess Katharina II, (who's favorite he was), but almost 70 years old he returned home to Berlin [Pallasea Bate, 1862, Cryptosula pallasiana (Moll, 1803), Stenurus pallasii (van Beneden, 1870), Amicula pallasii A. T. Von Middendorff, 1846, Moerisia pallasi (Derzhavin, 1912), Theodoxus pallasi Lindholm, 1924, Ligia pallasii Brandt, 1833] (Thomas E. Eichhorst kindly added the Theodoxus species).

Lacking information about Pallon, in the fish name Acantholabrus palloni (Risso, 1810). Perhaps not named for a person, but after sharks of family Triakidae , e.g. Mustelus mustelus (Linnaeus, 1758), named Palloun , Pallon or Pal in French and the exemplified species may have the same brownish colour along its back as this labrid?

Prof. Baron Johan Axel Palmén, (7 Nov. - Helsinki) 1845-1919 (7 Apr. - Forssa, pneumonia), Finnish disciple of Gegenbaur in Jena, professor of Zoology in Helsinki 1883-1908, founder of Tvärminne Zoological Station. Darwinist and mainly an ornithologist [Palmenella Hirschmann, 1916].

Lacking information about Palmer in the ophiuroid name Amphiura palmeri Lyman, 1882 and in the gastropod names Recluzia palmeri (Dall, 1871), Calliostoma palmeri Dall, 1871, Cosmioconcha palmeri (Dall, 1913), Tritonia palmeri (Cooper, 1862) & Cingula palmeri (Dall, 1919). Likely the self-taught British botanist and physician Dr. Edward Palmer, (12 Jan. - Norfolk County, England) 1831-1911 (10 Apr. - Washington D.C.), who mainly was active in USA (arrived there - Cleveland, Ohio - at age 18) and i.a. collected land shells in Mexico, described by Dall and also much other natural objects in SW USA, may be the honoured person.

The parasitic nematode name Cucullanus palmeri Crites & Overstreet, 1997 is a tribute to Ronnie G. Palmer, 19??-, for "superb technical assistance".

About the Balearic Islands mysid name Burrimysis palmeri Jaume & Garcia, 1993, the authors wrote: "The species is dedicated to" Dr. "Miquel Palmer", 19??-, "who helped us during the field work".

Lacking information about Palmer in the Micronesian amphipod name Beaudettia palmeri J.L. Barnard, 1965.

Lacking information about Palmer in the New Zealand gastropod name Pascula palmeri (A. W. B. Powell, 1967).

Dr. Katherine Evangeline Hilton van Winkle Palmer, (4 Feb.) 1895-1982 (12 Sep.), US Palaeontologist / Malacologist.

Alberto Palmeri, 19??-, malacologist from Palermo.

Johan Wilhelm Palmstruch, (3 Mar. - Stockholm) 1770-1811 (30 Aug. - Vänersborg), Swedish Captain of horse (Ryttmästare), who published the illustrated works "Svensk Botanik" and "Svensk Zoologi" [Cyanea palmstruchi (Swartz, in Palmstruch, 1813)]. (The medusa was named by Olof Swartz, (21 Sep. Norrköping) 1760-1818 (19 Sep.), a Swedish natural history collector, who travelled in E USA (Philadelphia & Boston areas), Jamaica, E South American coastline between 1783-87 - the last year, however, in London, bringing together a lot of material).

The monogenean name Calicotyle palombi Euzet & Williams, 1970, the triclade genus name Palombiella Westblad, 1951 and the cestodan name Rhinebothrium palombi Baer, 1948 mustall be in honour of Arturo Palombi, 1899-1987, Italian marine biologist / helminthologist at the Zoological Station in Napoli.

M.W. (or M.V.) Paltschikowa-Ostroumowa, 1???-19??, described in 1925 the medusa Ostroumovia inkermanica from the Sevastopol area [Ostroumovia Hadzi, 1928], but it had already earlier been named Thaumantias maeotica A.A. Ostroumov, 1896, possibly by her father?. She published at least until 1939.

Captain Admiral Giuseppe Palumbo, (31 Dec. - Napoli) 1840-1913 (16 Feb. - Napoli), Commander of the "Vettor Pisani," Royal Italian Navy vessel that went around the world (1882-1885). The collections from the expedition primarily ended up at the Stazione Zoologica in Napoli. Palumbo also constructed closing nets, to collect plankton from discrete depths [Euaugaptilus palumboi (Giesbrecht, 1889), Disseta palumboi Giesbrecht, 1889].

Lacking information about Pamela in the copepod name Protodactylina pamelae Laubier, 1966.

Panceri : (see Cornalia).

Dr. Nedumangattu Kesava Panikkar, (17 May) 1913-1977, of Madras Univ., is honoured in the actinian name Anthopleura panikkarii Parulekar, 1968.

Dr. Albert Panning, 1894-1978, German specialist on holothurians [Panningia Cherbonnier, 1958, Panningothuria Rowe, 1969].

Prof. Dr. Jean-Bertrand Panouse, (4 Apr. - Paris) 1914-1971 (1 Mar.), Prof. of Zoology in Bordeaux, is honoured in the isopod names Lekanesphaera panousei (Daguerre de Hureaux, Elkaim & Lejuez, 1964), Parachiridotea panousei Daguerre de Hureaux & Elkaim, 1972 and Gnathia panousei Daguerre de Hureaux, 1971. He was a naturalist that founded a terrestrial field station (Station de Recherches Présahariennes d'Aouinet-Torkoz) in southern Morocco in the 1950s. (Dr. Philippe Bouchet, the Natural History Museum, Paris, kindly provided the information abot Panouse's activity in Morocco and also informed that Panouse's daughter in law, Marie-Thérèse Panouse,was librarian at the Marine Station in Banyuls until 2007, when she retired).

Dante Pantanelli, (4 Jan. - Siena) 1844-1922 (2 Nov.), Italian malacologist and geologist at the Univ. of Modena.

Dr. Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer, (Etzelwang) 1755-1829 (28 June - Hersbruck), German physician and entomologist.

Werner Panzer, 1901-1976, zoologist in Freiburg, from 1937 in Danzig, mainly entomologist.

Prof. Dr. George Frederi(c)k Papenfuss, (4 Nov. - Orange Free State) 1903-1981 (8 Dec.), South African algal worker, who was married to the zoologist Dr. Emma Jean Johnstone. [Papenfussiella Kylin].

Prof. Dr. Ilan Paperna (Tel Aviv) 1937-2009 (28 Mar. (by heart attack) - Ramat HaSharon), Israeli parasitologist. He received his Ph.D. at the Department of Parasitology of the Hadassah Medical School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1964. After his promotion he carried out extensive researches in Ghana and other West-African countries. Since 1968 he was employed at the Department of Agriculture of the Hebrew University in Rehovot. First as a Lecturer, in 1970 as a Senior Lecturer, in 1975 he was appointed Associate Professor and became Full Professor in 1989. His field of research and teaching responsibilities included applied ichthyology, parasitology of farm animals; health management of farmed fish and animal parasitology. At least the following six parasites mainly of fish were named in his honour: Gyrodactylus papernai Ergens & Bychowsky, 1967; Saturnius papernai Overstreet, 1977; Anguillicola papernai Moravec & Taraschewski, 1988; Pseudanuretes papernai Kabata & Deets, 1988; Haemocystidium papernai Telford, 1996 and Plasmodium papernai Gres & Landau, 1997. (Curator Henk K. Mienis, Tel Aviv & Jerusalem, kindly provided this information).

Dr. Floriano Papi, (22 Dec. - Follonica, Grosseto) 1926-, Pisa, Italy, published on platyhelminths in the beginning of the 1950s [Parotoplana papii Ax, 1956, Tetranchyroderma papii Gerlach, 1953, Papia Karling, 1956].

Prof. Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Paramonov, 1891-1970 (11 June - Moscow), Russian nematode researcher.

The polychaete Pisione parapari Moreira, Quintas & Troncoso, 2000 is named in honour of Dr. Julio Parapar, 1962-, "Galician polychaetologist and friend" at the Universidade da Coruna.

Dr. Eugen Paravicini, 1889-1945, Swiss Malacologist.

The acoelan name Hofsteniola pardii Papi, 1957, is a tribute to the Italian zoologist Leo Pardi, (23 Aug. - Pisa) 1915-1990 (27 Dec.), direttore dell'Istituto di Zoologia dell'Università di Firenze between 1962-80.

The Norwegian clergyman Jacob von der Lippe Parelius, (4 May - Valen, Hitra, Sør-Trøndelag) 1744-1827 (25 Sep. - Meldal, Sør-Trøndelag), is, in his "Beskrivelse over Nogle Korstrold" 1768 mentioning Pseudarchaster parelii (Düben & Koren, 1846) as a variety of another species; Parelius was a chaplain in Trondheim and showed a big interest in The Royal Norwegian Sciences Society (Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab).

Prof. Dr. Pietro Parenzan, (10 Jan. - Pola) 1902-1992 (26 Nov. - Taranto), Italian marine biologist, is honoured in the myxozoan name Myxobolus parenzani Landsberg & Lom, 1991 & in the sponge name Cliona parenzani Corriero & Scalera-Liaci, 1997 [and in the following other names: Binuncus parenzanii (Lombardini, 1956) (Acarina), Ischyropsalis parenzanii De Lerma, 19?? (Opiliones), Leptyphantes parenzani Di Caporiacco, 1932 (Araneae), Niphargus parenzanii Ruffo & Vigna-Taglianti, 1968 (Amphipoda), Ostreola parenzani Settepassi, 1978 (Bivalvia), Paraleptoneta parenzanii Dresco, 1954 (Araneae), Planorbis planorbis L. var. parenzani Bacci, 1940? (Gastropoda), Porcellio parenzanii Arcangeli, 1931 (Isopoda), Parenzania sybillae Servazzi (Fungi), Sphaerium parenzanii (Gambetta, 1930) (Bivalvia), Soldanellonyx parenzanii Lombardini, 1952 (Acarina), Nesticus parenzanii (Trossarelli, 1931) (Araneae), Selidoserna parenzani Hausmann, 1993 (Lepidsoptera)] (Prof. Albina Gaevskaya, Sevastopol, kindly provided most of the eponyms).

The polychaete name Nereiphylla paretti de Blainville, 1828, called "Phyllodocé de Paretto" must likely be a spelling error for Marquis Lorenzo Nicolò Pareto, (6 Dec. - Genova) 1800-1865 (19 June), of Genova, who was very interested in geology and palaeontology and known as a self-taught geologist and also the decapod name Albunea paretii Guérin-Méneville, 1853 may possibly be a tribute to him.

Liutenant Commander J. Parfait, 18??-1???, was captain of the "Talisman" in 1882, and also commandant of R/V Travailleur, [Democrinus parfaiti Perrier, 1883, Barathronus parfaiti (Vaillant, 1888), Coronaster parfaiti Perrier, 1885, Munidopsis parfaiti (A. Milne-Edwards-Bouvier, 1894)].

Edward Parfitt, (17 Oct. - East Tuddenham, Norfolk) 1820-1893 (15 Jan.), of Exeter, British naturalist, who published "Marine Algæ of Devon", 1889 and "The Fauna of Devon", 1866-91.

The W African fish name Diretmichthys parini (Post & Quéro, 1981), may likely be a tribute to Nikolay Vasilyevich Parin, (21 Nov. - Perm) 1932-, Russian oceanologist.

Dr. Bruno Parisi, (Taio, Trento) 1884-1957 (Roveré della Luna, Trento), Italian geologist and crustaceologist, curator at the Milan Natural History Museum [Parisia Holthuis, 1956].

Dr. Mary 'Mamie' Winifred Parke, (23 Mar. - Bootle, Liverpool) 1908-1989 (17 July - Plymouth), FRS, British phycologist and protistologist [Halosphaera parkeae Boalch & Mommaerts, 1969, Chrysochromulina parkeae Green & Leadbeater, 1972 ].

The Foraminiferan name Ammonia parkensoniana (d'Orbigny, 1839) is now accepted as A. parkinsoniana (d'Orbigny, 1939), so likely the author originally made a spelling error. If so, likely the English aphotecary surgeon and palaeontologist Dr. James Parkinson, (11 Apr. - Shoreditch, London) 1755-1824 (21 Dec.), who in 1811 published the 3:rd edition of "Organic Remains of a Former Word" and after whom Parkinson's disease is named, may be the honoured person.

Prof. Thomas Jeffery Parker, (17 Oct. - London) 1850-1897 (7 Nov. - Warrington, from diabethic complications), from 1880 Professor of Biology in the University of Otago, New Zealand, published i.a. about Palinurus and is the honoured person in the decapod name Projasus parkeri (Stebbing, 1902). He had been a disciple of Huxley (q.v.) and in New Zealand, he cooperated with the Australian Haswell (q.v.) in publishing their common work "A text-book of zoology".

The Mysidacean name Schistomysis parkeri Norman, 1892 is a tribute to its first collector, Mr. C. Parker, 18??-1???, who found it near Starcross, Devonshire in 1884.

The US researcher Miss Frances Lawrence Parker, (28 Mar. - Brookline, Mass.) 1906-2002 (21 Mar. - La Jolla), who was educated in foraminiferology by Cushman (q.v.) and began publishing on foraminiferans together with him and some of his pupils (like Phleger (q.v.)), is likely the person honoured in the foraminiferan name Eggerella parkerae Uchio, 1960. She retired formally in 1973, but continued to work for another decade. Parker Bank in the Louisiana shelf is also named for her. An earlier namesake dealing with foraminiferans (known during his life mainly for his vertebrate skull studies) was the British physician Dr. William Kitchen Parker, (23 June - Dogsthorpe, near Peterborough) 1823-1890 (3 July - Cardiff), publishing together with T.R. Jones (q.v.) , W.B. Carpenter (q.v.) and others.

Lacking information about R.H. Parker in the amphipod name Bathyporeia parkeri Bousfield, 1973. Parker collected amphipods for Bousfield in the Hadley Harbor region. He may be identical with Dr. Robert H. Parker, 19??-1998 (Sep.), at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, who in 1964 published on zoogeography and ecology of the Gulf of California and the Mexican Pacific continental slopes. He was among donors of coelenterate specimens to US National Museum in 1957. In later years he was named President Emeritus of Wesley College, Delaware. (Dr. Riccardo Giannuzzi-Savelli kindly provided some of this information).

Bathydrilus parkeri Erséus, 1991 is named for Dr. Thomas W. Parker, 1950-, "(Joint Water Pollution Control Plant, Carson, California - later at the Marine Biology Laboratory, L. A. County Sanitation Dist., California), who kindly provided the material)".

The gastropod name Ithycythara parkeri Abbott, 1958 and the bivalve name Cuspidaria parkeri Knudsen, 1970 may possibly honour the malacologist John Dyas Parker, (5 June) 1915-1977 (2 Feb.), Pilsbry's (q.v.) long-time assistant.

The Baja California gastropod name Turritella parkeri J.H. McLean, 1970 is perhaps likely a tribute to R.H. Parker (above), who was active and i.a. worked on board the R/V "Thomas Washington", which found the species in 1968, during that time.

Mactra parkesiana Hedley, 1902 was named for Miss L. Parkes, 18??-19??, a daughter of the veteran Australian statesman, and who presented her specimen to the Australian Museum.

Mr. Brian Parkinson, (Opotiki, New Zealand) 1944-, Rabaul, New Guinea, who collected specimens of Terebra parkinsoni Cernohorsky, 1976 and has written a number of shell books (and other books about butterflies, sea birds etc.), is honoured also in Oliva parkinsoni Prior, 1975, a  papuinid land mollusc Megalacron parkinsoni Van Goethem 1983 and a rainbowfish Melanotaenia parkinsoni Allen, 1980. Also Scabricola parkinsoni Salisbury & Wolff, 2005 is honouring his name.

Lacking information about Parkinson in the bivalve name Solemya parkinsoni Smith, 1874, but possibly a late tribute to James Parkinson (see under Parkenson).

The bivalve name Teredo parksi P. Bartsch, 1921 is not in honour of the US entomologist and educator Dr. Thaddeus Hedges Parks, (14 Feb. - Ashville, Ohio) 1887-1971 (31 Mar.) or Dr. William Arthur Parks, (11 Dec. - Hamilton) 1868-1936 (3 Oct. - Toronto), Director of the Royal Ontatio Museum, who published a paleontological book in 1933 and initially worked on invertebrate palaeontology, but of Admiral Parks, which must be the chief of the US Bureau of Yards and Docks Rear Admiral Charles Wellman Parks, (22 Mar. - Woburn, Mass.) 1863-1930 (25 June - Washington D.C.), who was an educated civil engineer.

Prof. Dr. Paul Woodburn Parmalee, (17 Oct. - Mansfield, Ohio) 1926-2006 (4 July - Knoxville), US zooarcheologist and palaeontologist, former director at the Frank H. McClung Museum at the University of Tennessee [Bellascintilla parmaleeana Coney, 1990]. (Dr. Jefferson Chapman, Director of the McClung Museum, kindly provided the date and birth place).

Juan José Parodiz, (Buenos Aires) 1911-2007 (24 Sep. - Allentown, PA), Argentine malacologist working at the Carnegie Museum, USA from 1951, is honoured in the genus name Parodizia Medina, 1959. He studied palaeontology and malacology at the Instituto Nacional Ciencias Naturales, and while serving in the Argentinian Navy, he took part in several oceanographical expeditions to southern seas and worked for almost 20 years at the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales before going to USA. (André Tromboso, Brazil, kindly provided the information).

The decapod name Gelastocaris paronae (Nobili, 1905) is likely derived from Prof. Dr. Corrado Parona, (12 June - Corteolona) 1848-1922 (23 Aug.), who was a physician and Prof. of Zoology at the Genova University - he not only worked within zoology (see also A. Perugia), but also described som algae [Calceostoma paronai (Parona & Perugia, 1892), Encotyllabe paronae Monticelli, 1907], cooperating with his brother Dr. Ernesto Parona, 1849-1902, who also was a physician, within parasitology, although the most famous Italian scientist of this name was Prof. Carlo Fabrizio Parona, (8 Mar. - Melegnano) 1855-1939 (15 Jan.), working at the Univ. of Torino, geologist and palaeontologist with special regard to the 2ndary formations of N Italy. (Drs Stefano Palazzi & Maria Angela Stradi kindly provided this information).

Dr. Albert Eide Parr, (15 Aug. - Bergen) 1900-1991 (16 July - Wilder, Vermont), Norwegian born US ichthyologist, who had started studying Marine Biology as an assistant to Professor August Brinkmann (q.v.) at the Bergen Museum. Emigrated to the USA, where he in 1926 became an assistant at the New York Aquarium. He continued his research in Marine Biology and in 1927 he became curator of the Bingham (q.v.) collections, in 1938 he was appointed director of the Bingham Oceanographic Foundation (Peabody Museum) at Yale University of the Peabody Museum at Yale University. In 1942 (until 1959) he became director of the American Museum of Natural History, later working as a senior scientist at the museum [Sicyonia parri (Burkenroad, 1934)].

Walter James Parr, 1???-1949, was a well reputed amateur, who published on foraminiferans from Australia and New Zealand between 1930-50 [Parrina Cushman, 1931]. He died in a comparatively young age. An obituary (unseen by this compiler) was published oin 1950 by M.F. Glaessner in Australian Journal of Science 12(6): 211.

Ludwig Parreys, 1796-1879, Austrian (Wien) collector and dealer of natural history objects.

Either A. Parriaud , 19??-, or Henri Parriaud, 19??-, booth algal workers, is honoured in the green algal name Cladophora parriaudii van den Hoek. Henri Parriaud published at least between the 1950s and 1990s.

Admiral Sir William Edward Parry, (19 Dec. - Bath) 1790-1855 (8 or 9 July - Bad Ems), British Arctic Explorer and Hydrograper of the Navy.

Lacking information about Parseval in the bryozoan name Parasmittina parsevalii (Audouin, 1826). Not a common name, but Marc-Antione Parseval des Chênes, (27 Apr.) 1755-1836 (16 Aug.), French mathemathician and François-Auguste Parseval-Grandmaison, (7 May) 1759-1834 (7 Dec.), French poet, are a few authors with this name and of these likely the mathematician is the most probable honouree.

Lacking information about the malacologist M. Parth, 19??-, in the gastropod name Murexiella parthi R. Houart, 1993.

The Austrian geologist Paul Maria Partsch, (11 June - Wien) 1791-1856 (3 Oct. - Wien), is honoured in the foraminiferan name Adelosina partschi (d'Orbigny, 1846).

Amur M. Parukhin, (23 Feb.) 1928-1994 (25 May), Russian helminthologist born in Blagoveschchensk (the Amur river region), is honoured in the digenean name Elytrophalloides parukhini Gupta & Gupta, 1997. He studied at the Gorky Univ. at Nizny Novgorod under Prof. A. Sobolev and after that he went to the Far East, eventually reaching the Pacific Ocean, where he began to study helminths from marine fishes, which became a life-long work, although he later went to Sevastopol and spent his last 24 years in the Black Sea region (Prof. Jean-Lou Justine, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, kindly provided a copy of a biographical note in Systematic Parasitology (1996) 34: 77-78).

Lacking information about the Indian actinian researcher Dr. Arun H. Parulekar, 19??-, (active with sea anemones during the late 1960s - later with i.a. polychaetes) in the actinian name Synantheopsis parulekari den Hartog J.C. and Vennam J., 1993 and in the octocoral name Sinularia parulekari Alderslade & Shirwalker, 1991.

Dermomurex agnesae Vokes, 1995 was named for Mrs Agnes Pas, 19??-. Likely also Dermomurex pasi E. H. Vokes, 1993 was named for the same person or a male person of the same family.

Norman Dale Paschall (24 Apr., Ava, Missouri, U.S.A.), 1924-2003 (28 May - MS), collector and student of marine molluscs. He exchanged widely with other collectors and published many articles in local conchological journals. He was well-known for his huge collection of worldwide Wentletraps, Fam. Epitoniidae. Unfortunately his mollusc collection was completely destroyed by a fire in the nineties. This loss affected him so immensely that it interfered heavily with his speech and memory. A rare Cone species found in Nicaragua: Conus (Leptoconus) paschalli Petuch, 1998, was named after him in appreciation for his assistance in collecting in the Bragman's Bluff area, the type locality of that Cone species. (Curator Henk K. Mienis, Tel Aviv Univ., kindly provided this information).

Dr. Adolf A. Pascher, 1881-1945, German microalgae worker during the first decades of the 20th century [Urceolus pascheri Skvortzow, 1924].

The Italian (Pisa, later Padova) copepod researcher Prof. Pasquale Pasquini, (19 Nov.) 1901-1977 (28 Jan.),who published on such creatures already in 1929 until at least the 1960s, is honoured in the harpacticoid name Psammopsyllus pasquinii Cottarelli, 1969.

Lacking information about Pasternak in the cirripedian name Teloscalpellum pasternakae Zevina, 1972, but possibly a tribute to the Russian pennatularian & antipatharian researcher Dr. Fedor Aleksandrovich Pasternak, 19??-, at P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Moscow, (the husband of the tanaid researcher Dr. R.K. Kudinova-Pasternak (q.v.) - and their daughter Dr. Anna Pasternak, 19??-, is a plankton specialist at the Shirshov Institute), who began publishing around 1958 - or considering the female ending -ae perhaps more likely a tribute to his wife? (The isopod name Ceratoserolis pasternaki (Kussakin, 1967) must more likely honour him). The Israelic coral symbiont researcher Dr. Zohar Pasternak, 19??-, who also has published on Cirripedia, must be too young to be the candidate.

The marine gastropod Conus patae Abbott, 1971 was named after Mrs. Patricia ("Pat") Nelson Ware, 19??-, who collected part of the type material off Pompano Beach, Broward County, Florida, U.S.A. (Curator Henk K. Mienis, Tel Aviv Univ., kindly provided this information).

Mr. Somnuk Patamakanthin, (Damnoen Saduak, Ratchaburi Province) 19??-, Rawai Phuket, is honoured in the Thailandic gastropod names Conus patamakanthini Delsaerdt, 1997 and Surrepifungium patamakanthini A. & E. Gittenberger, 2005. He migrated to the Phuket area and started to collect shells, later establishing the Phuket Sea Shell Museum, an occupation taken over by his son Somwang Patamakanthin, 19??-, who is one of the largest shell collectors in Thailand.

Alexander Patience, (3 Dec. - Inverness) 1865-1954 (1 Jan.) , was a little-known amateur carcinologist (and property valuator) in Glasgow, publishing during the Edwardian era. He was the son of James Patience who became a Clyde river pilot. He worked all his life inGlasgow (in commerce as a house factor and valuator). He was active within the Glasgow Natural History Society and published 24 papers mainly on terrestrial isopods (woodlice) and marine Crustacea in the Clyde. He was friendly with Thomas Scott (q.v.) and Dr. John Nairn Marshall, Sheina Marshall's (q.v.) father. He named the amphipod Isaea elmhirsti Patience,1909 after the then Director of the Marine Station at Millport (Richard Elmhirst (q.v.)). Why his published contributions to crustaceology dried up after about 1910 remains mysterious. Two species of woodlice, Chaetophiloscia patiencei (R.S. Bagnall, 1908) and Miktoniscus patiencei Vandel 1946 are honouring his name. Vandel wrote that he assigned the name patiencei in the honour of the English zoologist who was the first to precisely describe a species of Miktoniscus (in Vandel, A. (1946) Crustacés isopodes terrestres (Oniscoïdea) épigés et cavernicoles du Portugal. Anaïs da Faculdade de Ciências do Porto 30: 135-427). (Prof. Geoff Moore, University Marine Biological Station Millport, who together with Geoff Hancock in 2004 finished an extensive biography of this amateur naturalist, kindly provided all this information, except the last eponym and its reference, which Glyn Collis, Isle of Bute kindly provided).

Patricia : (see also Hutchings or Oxner).

The diatom name Cocconeiopsis patrickae (Hustedt, 1955) must honour the algae worker Dr. Ruth Myrtle Patrick, (26 Nov. - Topeka, Kansas) 1907-, celebrated by a gala at her 100:th birtday.

Dr. Colin Patterson, (13 Oct. - London) 1933-1998 (9 Mar. - London), palaeo-ichthyologist.

Prof. Dr. David J (Paddy). Patterson, (19 Apr. - Belfast) 1950-, British-born protistologist, PhD in 1976 (Bristol), D.Sc. in 1990 (Belfast), working with a wide spectrum of organisms from 1992-2004 in Sydney, Australia, efter which he left for Woods Hole. Several species are named for him, but so far perhaps most non marine. However the foraminiferan name Nanosylvanella pattersoni Loeblich Jr. & Tappan, 1994 may perhaps be a tribute to him? {another picture}.

Robert Patterson, (18 Apr. - Belfast) 1802-1872 (14 Feb. - Belfast (died after a fall in his house)) , (with double t), owner of a mill-furnishing business in Belfast and one of the young men, who gathered with Dr. J.L. Drummond (q.v.) to shape the Belfast Natural History Society in 1821, is often mentioned as a collector for British naturalists of that time. He was the grandfather of R. Lloyd Praeger (see Southern). He is remembered in Iophonopsis pattersoni (Bowerbank, 1858), Sarsia pattersoni Haddon, 1886 and he seems to have collected the first specimens of Anomalocera patersoni Robert Templeton, 1838 at the outlet of Larne Lough, Antrim, Ireland and delivered his observations in a letter to the travelling surgeon and naturalist Dr. Robert Templeton, (12 Dec. - Cranmore, Belfast) 1802-1892 (2 June - Edinburgh), a son (2.nd of 5 siblings, having 4 sisters) of the well-known close friend of Joseph Banks, John Templeton, 1766-1825, who all his life was active as a naturalist at his estate a couple of kilometers from Belfast, e.g. making drawings of Irish cryptogams. According to Hopkinson 1913, Robert Templeton wrote an article in 1834 in Mag. Nat. Hist. (1) VII, pp. 129-131, using the pseudonym "C. M." - and he continued to publish (but usually using his own name) at least until 1858 (2 years before he retired in January 1860). Robert T. achieved his MD in Edinburgh in 1831 and joined the army as a surgeon between 1833-60, became widely travelled, e.g. staying at Sri Lanka between 1839-48, and produced a steady stream of natural history papers dealing with decapods, copepods, molluscs and insects. Possibly also Salenia pattersoni A. Agassiz, 1878, is named after Robert Patterson.

Choriplax pattisoni Ashby, 1921 was named for George Pattison, 18??-19??, lighthouse keeper at Cape Banks, South Australia.

Lacking information about Paul in the digenean name Metadena pauli (Vlassenko, 1931).

Who is Paul in the copepod name Phyllopodopsyllus pauli Crisafi, 1959? Possibly another harpacticoid, Oniscopsis pauliani Chappuis, 1954 may be connected with the same person? One possible candidate may of course be Paul Illg (q.v.).

The Caribbean mollusca name Volvarina pauli de Jong & Coomans, 1988 is in honour of Paul de Jong, 19??-, son of the first author.

Paul in some gastropod names : (see Bartsch).

Mr. Edward D. Paul, 19??-, of Miami, Florida is honoured in the gastropod name Murexiella edwardpauli Petuch, 1990.

Who is Paula in the tardigrade name Styraconyx paulae Robotti, 1971?

Who is Paula in the octocoral name Sinularia paulae Benayahu, 1998?

Paula in Pontoniopsis paulae Gore 1981 : (see Mikkelsen).

Lacking information about Paulina / Pauline in the gastropod name Doto paulinae Trinchese, 1881.

Lacking information about Pauline in the NW Atlantic polychaete name Phalacrostemma paulineae Kirtley, 1994.

Pauline in the nudibranch name Hypselodoris paulinae Gosliner & Johnson, 1999 : (see Fiene).

Pauline in copepod names : (see von Vaupel Klein).

The collector, Professor Manuel Paulino de Oliveira, (11 Nov. - Bragança) 1837-1899 (25 Aug.), from Portugal, is honoured in the calcareous sponge name Amphiute paulini Hamitsch, 1894.

Otton Mikhailovich Paul'son, 1837-1886, studied i.a. Diplozoon paradoxom and Red Sea crustaceans [Leontocaris paulsoni Stebbing, 1905].

Marchesa Marianna Panciatichi Ximenes d'Aragona Paulucci, (3 Feb. - Florence) 1835-1919 (7 Dec. - Regello, Florence), Florence, malacologist (the Lady of Italian malacology during the 19:th century) [Crenella paulucciae Crosse, 1863, Helix paulucciae Crosse, 1868, Ostrea paulucciae Crosse, 1869, Stylifer paulucciae Fischer,1864, Succinea paulucciae Gassies, 1870, Neritina paulucciae Gassies, 1870, Conus paulucciae Sowerby, 1843]. (Andrew Vik, Tampa, Florida kindly supplied her full name).

Prof. Jules Pavillard, (7 Apr. - Bayonne) 1868-1961, French phytoplanktologist, mainly working on diatoms [Navicula pavillardii Hustedt, 1939].

Lacking information about Pavlenko in the sipunculan name Nephasoma pavlenkoi (Ostroumov, 1909). During that time an ichthyologist, M.N. Pavlenko and - the other N.N. Pavlenko - describing i.a. an Alcyonarian - existed in Russia.

Dr. Evgeny Nikanorovich Pavlovski, (5 Mar. - today's Voronezh Oblast) 1884-1965 (27 May - Leningrad), Russian parasitologist [Anatylus pavlovskii Bulycheva, 1955].

Dr. David Leo Pawson, 1938-, echinodermatologist at the Smithsonian Institution, who partly has published on echinoderms together with his assistant Doris J. Vance, 19??-, [the elasipod Ophnurgus dorisae Pawson, 2002] (and they now seem to be a married couple, sharing the family name Pawson) [Pawsonia Rowe, 1970].

Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Albert Pax, (30 Dec. - Breslau) 1885-1964 (11 Sep. - Bad Honnef), zoologist in Köln-Klettenberg, who in 1962 published his well-known book "Meeresprodukte, ein Handwörterbuch der marinen Rohstoffe". Pax had specialized in anthozoans after visits to the zoological stations in Trieste in 1906 (under Cori) and Bergen in 1907 (under Appelöf). [Parastephanauge paxi Dufaure, 1959]. He was a friend of W. Arndt (q.v.) and published some works together with him. His father was the botanist Ferdinand Albin Pax, (26 July - Köninginhof) 1858-1942 (1 Mar. - Breslau).

Julius (Ritter von) Payer, (2 Sep. - Teplitz-Schönau) 1841-1915 (29 Aug. - Veldes (now Bled, Slovenia)), Austrian polar researcher and naval officer, who took part in the 2:nd German polar expedition with Koldewey 1869-70 and the Austrian/Hungarian expeditions with Weyprecht (see him) in 1871 and 1872-74, after which he became an artist, painting and drawing motives from the Arctic [Bythocaris payeri (Heller, 1875)].

Baron Gustaf von Paykull (Paijkull), (21 Aug. - Stockholm) 1757-1826 (28 Aug. - Wallox-Säby (his estate in Uppland), Swedish poet and amateur collector and writer of insects. He donated his very huge natural history collection to the Swedish Academy of Science. (He had sent collectors to different parts of the world to enlarge his collections). This became the first collection in the Swedish Musium of Natural History, when it was founded and Paykull was knighted (baron) because of this. According to certain sources, he was a somewhat dubious person who did not hesitate to cheat and had cleptomanic inclinations.

Benjamin Charles Marie Payraudeau, (22 Mar. - logis de la Grande Forêt à La Réorthe) 1798-1865 (12 Jan.), disciple of Lamarck (q.v.) at the Jardin des Plantes, Paris. He published on molluscs and birds in 1826 [Mangelia payraudeaui Deshayes, 1835]. His brother, the physician Dr. Auguste François Lous Liberté Payraudeau, (12 Sep. - St-Jean-de-Beugné) 1795-1868 (11 Oct. - St-Mars de La Chaize-le-Vicomte), was also interested in natural history.

The gastropod names Paziella Crosse, 1869 pazi Crosse, 1869, Poirieria pazi H. Crosse, 1869 and the bivalve name Nemocardium pazianum (Dall, 1916) .may possibly honour the Madrid museum researcher Patricio Maria Paz y Membiela, (17 Mar. - El Ferrol) 1808-1874 (11 Jan. - Madrid), .

Charles William Peach, (30 Sep. - Wansford, Northamtonshire) 1800-1886 (28 Feb. - Edinburgh), son of a saddler and harness-maker, who soon gave up this professon, becoming an inn-owner and farmer. Charles, beeing fond of books, went to school until 15 years old, when he had to assist his father in the inn and at the farm, but was often scolded for attending to books rather then the plough. When 23 years old, he was appointed as a riding officer in the coast-guard at Weybourn, in the port of Clay, Norfolk. In 1845 he moved to Cornwall and in 1849 to Peterhead, a town north of Aberdeen and then to Wick further north. He was a diligent collector of marine invertebrates for researchers, af first for Dr. Johnston (q.v.). He also himself published some articles - despite (at least initially) indigence, a family with 9 children to support and educate at an income of 4 shillings per day (in 1844). (One of his children, Benjamin Neeve Peach, 1842-1926, became a well known geologist). Participated during the 1860s in Jeffreys' collecting expeditions as a specialist on sessile fauna. (He retired from the coast-guard in 1861). Actually, as Peach had grown up in the inland, not having seen the sea until leaving his fathers house, he became fascinated of the sea when first confronted with it. He tells himself about how a most splendid specimen of Nemertesia antennina (Lamarck, 1816) found at the chimneypiece of an inn, where he stayed when going to his first job outside his family, excited his curiosity so much, so he had to find out what it was and after this his interest in marine life was awaked. He began collecting for the beauty, but in 1825, when meeting the Rev J. Layton, then at Chatfield, he became inspired also to collect all information he could find about the natural objects he came across, but not until 1841 at a meeting of the British Association at Plymouth, where he read a paper on Organic Fossils of Cornwall, he began reading or publishing papers [Peachia Gosse, 1855, Tricellaria peachi (Busk, 1851), Hymedesmia peachi Bowerbank, 1882].

Titian R. Peale : (see Dana). He should not be confused with his father, Charles Willson Peale, (15 Apr. - Chester, Maryland) 1741-1827 (22 Feb.), the portrait painter from Maryland, who at his own expences built the Philadelphia Museum, which started in 1786. Dr. D. Damkaer (in litt.) wrote that C.W. Peale's whole family was talented and that C.W. Peale named most all his sons after painters, except two, who were named for other celebrities. They were Raphaelle (the oldest), Rembrandt, Rubens, Charles Linnaeus, Franklin (for Benjamin Fr.), and (the youngest) Titian Ramsay. A couple of these made their name as artists. The father is best known now for his great portraits of the Founding Fathers of USA, G. Washington, Thomas Jefferson, etc [Loligo pealeii Lesueur, 1821].

Prof. Em. Dr. William (Bill) Gordon Pearcy, around 1929-, PhD at Yale in 1960, born in a suburb of Chicago, Oregon State Univ., is honoured in the Mysida name Boreomysis pearcyi Murano & Krygier, 1985. He has mainly worked on fish and retired in 1998. Together with Dr. Peter C. Rothlisberg, 1945-, Cleveland, Australia he also developed and in 1976 published on the Rothlisberg-Pearcy (RP) Epibenthic Sledge, a good device for collecting fish larvae and other more or less hyperbenthic animals. Rothlisberg is honoured in the names Spirorbis rothlisbergi Knight-Jones, 1978 and Brachycalanus rothlisbergi Othman & Greenwood, 1988.

Prof. Dr. Arthur Sperry Pearse, (15 Mar.) 1877-1956 (13 Dec.), US zoologist, who obtained his PhD at Harvard. Was for most of his life Professor of Zoology at Duke University, in North Carolina. Specialized in parasitic copepods, leaving about 25 publications between 1904 and 1952. Also authored general works on zoology. See his autobiography (1952) "Trying to be a Zoologist." Copepods named for him are Diaptomus pearsei Wright, 1927 and Paralebion pearsei Causey, 1953. [Phonorhynchus pearsei Ferguson, Strewalt & Kepner, 1940, Typhlatya pearsei Creaser, 1936]. (Dr. D. Damkaer kindly provided this information). A later namesake is Prof. Em. John Pearse, 1936-, Biology Department at University of California, Santa Cruz, who formally retired in 1994, has after that been working on invertebrates together with his wife Dr. Vicki Buchsbaum Pearse, 1942-, [Anthosactis pearseae Daly & Gusmao, 2007 - a whale carcass sea anemone] and her father Dr. Ralph Morris Buchsbaum, (2 Jan. - Chickasha, Indian Territory) 1907-2002 (11 Feb. - Pacific Grove, California), PhD at Univ. of Chicago in 1932, continuing at this university until 1950, when he moved to Univ. of Pittsburgh, but retired in 1972, moving to Pacific Grove, well-known for several invertebrate books, some of them together with his wife Mildred Shaffer Buchsbaum, (25 Apr. - Chicago) 1912-1996 (16 Jan. - Pacific Grove), and his sister Elizabeth Buchsbaum Newhall, 1909-1942, who helped with the illustrations.

The digenean specialist, Prof. Dr. John Cawardine Pearson, (Toronto, Canada) 1927-, is honoured in the flatworm name Pearsonellum Overstreet & Køie, 1989. PhD in 1954. Two years later he moved to Brisbane, Australia, where he he has stayed. He retired in August 1992. (Prof. Jean-Lou Justine, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, kindly provided a copy of a biographical note from Systematic Parasitology (1994)) 27: 237-238).

The holothurian name Pearsonothuria Levin, in Levin, Kalinin & Stonik, 1984 is in honour of Prof. Karl Pearson, (27 Mar. - Islington, London) 1857-1936 (27 Apr. - Coldharbour, Surrey), British mathemathician, who had spent some study time in Germany and there got the spelling of his first name changed from Carl to Karl, established the discipline of mathematical statistics and became a protegé and later the biograper of Francis Galton, Darwin's cousin.

The gastropod name Cymatium (Septa) peasei Beu, 1986. may possibly honour the American malacologist William Harper Pease, (Brooklyn, New York) 1824-1871, who in 1849 moved to Honolulu, from where he continued to work [Favartia peasei (Tryon, 1880), Conus peasei J. Brazier, 1877, Amygdalum peasei W. Newcomb, 1870, Hypselodoris peasei (Bergh, 1880)]. (Andrew Vik, Tampa, Florida kindly provided this information).

The West African polyplacophoran name Ischnochiton peasleri J. Thiele, 1910, seem to be a wrongly spelled variant of I. paessleri Thiele, 1910, and if so, likely a tribute to captain Richard Paessler (q.v.).

Jean Péchaud, (31 Oct. - Chavagnac (Cantal)) 1823-1886 (9 July - Saint-Saulge (Nièvre)), French Malacologist.

About the sponge name Hymenancora pecqueryi (Topsent, 1892)the athour told: "Je dédie cette espèce à mon excellent ami" M. J. E. Pecquery, 18??-, "professeur au Lycée du Puy.".

Dr. Alex E. Peden, 19??-, Royal British Columbia Museum, is an ichthyologist (Curator Emeritus).

The shrimp name Lysmata pederseni Rhyne & Lin, 2006 was named for Eric Pedersen Sr., 19??-, a tropical fish collector, in Marathon, Florida, who first suggested to collect and examine this species.

Harry Pederson, 1???-, McAllen, Texas, is honoured in the Caribbean shrimp name Periclimenes pedersoni Chace 1958. Pederson published on shrimps at least during the 1950s and the beginning of the 1960s (when he and Vern Pederson - a brother? were active on the Bahamas, later also becoming underwater agents for the Disney company), i.a. together with Limbaugh (q.v.) and between 1960-66 he was photographing decapods at the Bahamas together with Waldo Schmitt (q.v.).

The parasitic nematode name Anisakis pegreffii Campana-Rouget & Biocca, 1955 is likely a tribute to the Italian Prof. Giuseppe Pegreffi, 19??-, Direttore della Stazione Sperimentale della Sardegna, active at least from the 1930s to around 1960.

Lt. Col. Alfred James Peile, (5 Aug. - London) 1868-1948 (30 July - St. Thomas Hospital, London), British malacologist. There was also a malacologist A.H. Peile on Bermudas.

Prof. Benjamin Peirce, (4 Apr.) 1809-1880 (6 Oct.), superintendent of the US Coast Survey, in this respect the successor of Bache (q.v.). He was a friend of the Agassiz family (q.v.) and invited them to use some of the expedition ships, e.g. Hassler and Blake [Anthenoides peircei Perrier, 1881, Crypthelia peircei De Pourtalès, 1867].

Hendrik Severinus Pel, (30 Aug., Leiden, the Netherlands) 1818-1876 (11 Jan., Leiden), Dutch colonial official and zoological collector in Ghana, W Africa, between 1840-50. His collections went to the Leiden museum (now "Naturalis"). He published six articles about his experience in West Africa in which he described among others three new non-marine species (a mammal and two reptiles). At least 14 species have been named after him (3 mammals, 4 birds, 4 fishes and 3 crustaceans). The aquatic species among them are the fishes Poecilophis peli Kaup, 1856 (now Echidna peli); Rhinoptera peli Bleeker, 1863; Larimus peli Bleeker, 1863 (now Pteroscion peli) and Polynemus peli Fowler, 1936, and the crustaceans Calappa pelii Herklots, 1851; Grapsus pelii Herklots, 1851 (now Goniopsis pelii) and Thelphusa peli  Herklots, 1861. For peli in a name of a mollusc reference is made to another Dutchman: P.L. van Pel (q.v. - under van Pel). (Curator Henk K. Mienis, Tel Aviv Univ., kindly provided part of this information)

Mr. Dov Peled, 1934-, from Tivon (Israel), shell collector and dealer, who collected the type material of Mitra (Nebularia) dovpeledi Turner, 1997 and donated the type material [Homalocantha dovepeledi Houart, 1982, Chicoreus (Triplex) peledi Vokes, 1978, Chicoreus (Triplex) dovi Houart ,1984]. (Dr. Hans Turner, Casa La Conchiglia, Rovia, Switzerland, kindly provided some of this information and Curator Henk Mienis, Tel Aviv Univ., kindly added the last eponym).

The gastropod name Murexiella pelepili D' Attilio & Bertsch, 1980 is not honouring any person, but the latinized name is meaning Pele's hair because of the many fine and thin extensions on the globular shell. (Pele is the Hawaiian goddess of volcanoes and thin strands of volcanic glass drawn out from molten lava is called "Pele's hair" after her).

Dr. Jacques Pellegrin, (12 June - Paris) 1873-1944 (12 Aug.), ichthyologist (cichlid specialist) at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, is honoured in the clingfish name Apletodon pellegrini (Chabanaud, 1925).

Dr. Jean Paul Louis Pelseneer, (26 June - Brussels) 1863-1945 (5 May - Brussels), Belgian chemistry teacher, academy secretary and keen amateur malacologist from Brussels [Pelseneeria Köhler & Vaney, 1908, Doriopsilla pelseneeri d'Oliveira, 1895, Anisarthrus pelseneeri Giard, 1907, Rhopalura pelseneeri Caullery & Mesnil, 1901, Ancistrocoma pelseneeri Chatton & Lwoff, 1926, Trophon pelseneeri E. A. Smith, 1915, Dacrydium pelseneeri Ch. Hedley, 1906].

Dr. Eugène Penard, (16 Sep. - Geneva) 1855-1954 (5 Jan. - Geneva), Swiss naturalist, working on protozoans, especially ciliates [Penardia Cash, 1904, Prorodon penardi Dragesco, 1954, Loxodes penardi Dragesco, 1960]. He also spent some years as a travelling teacher and was e.g. the tutor of young Felix Youssoupoff, who later plotted the assasination of Rasputin. He had i.a. been a disciple of Carl Vogt (q.v.).

The gastropod name Conus penchaszadehi E. J. Petuch, 1986 is honouring Dr. Pablo Enrique Penchaszadeh, 19??-, Argentine malacologist. (André Trombeta kindly provided this information).

The bivalve name Nuculana penderi (Dall & Bartsch, 1910) is likely not in honour of a person's name, like the British hydrographer and naval captain Daniel Pender, 1933-1991, or Sir John Pender, (10 Sep. - Vale of Leven, Scotland) 1816-1896 (7 July), who was a submarine telegraphy pioneer, but more likely a toponym, derived from Pender Harbor, British Columbia, because the type locality is Barkley Sound at Vancouver Island.

The amphipod name Stegocephalexia penelope Moore, 1992 is honouring Penelope Moore, 1972-, the daughter of the author, Prof. Geoff Moore, University Marine Biological Station Millport.

Lacking information about the Russian scientist N. (or K.K.?) Pengo, 18??-1???, in the cladoceran name Cercopagis pengoi (Ostroumov, 1891) and in the mysid name Diamysis pengoi (Czerniavsky, 1882). Pengo published on mainly Crustacea in the Ponto-Caspian area in 1879 and the years around, partly together with Oskar Grimm (q.v.).

Prof. Dr. Robert William Pennak, (13 June - Milwaukee, Wisconsin) 1912-2004 (23 June - Denver, Colorado), US biologist, mainly limnologist. He co-discovered the Mystacocarida together with Zinn (q.v.), when working at Woods Hole during the 1940s [Batillipes pennaki Marcus, 1946, Echinoderes pennaki Higgins, 1960]. (An obituary with portrait by D. Damkaer may be found in Monoculus 48).

Thomas Pennant : (see Travis).

Pennell : (see the Terra Nova expedition, 1910-).

Lacking information about Penney in the Réunion gastropod name Mendax penneyi Jay & Drivas, 2002.

Heterodrilus pentcheffi Erséus, 1981 is named for Mr. Nicholas Dean Pentcheff, 19??-, White Plains, New York, "who assisted most valuably in my field work at Bermuda Biological Station".

Lacking information about Pepini in the amphipod name Stomacontion pepinii (Stebbing, 1888).

The fish species name Gadomus pepperi Iwamoto & Williams, 1999 is in honour of Roger Pepper, 19??-, originating from East Yorkshire, U.K., "the fishing master of FRV Southern Surveyor and FRV Soela, for his contribution to many scientific fishing expeditions, including those that provided much of the material for this study".

Dr. Willis Eugene Pequegnat, (18 Sep. - Riverside, Cal.) 1914-1994 (2 Apr. - La Jolla, Cal., by prostatic cancer), Californian entomologist, who partly changed direction and began some marine crustacean research [Dicranodromia pequegnati Guinot, 1995]. He has partly published together with his wife Dr. Linda Haithcock Pequegnat, (Indiana) 19??-, of La Jolla, who has lived in the San Diego area since 1954 and worked at Scripps.

The diatom name Mesogloia peragalli Cleve must be a tribute to either Maurice Alexandre Péragallo, (5 June - Cote-d'or - Beaune) 1853-19??, who worked on algae or to his older brother, Frederic Hippolyte Péragallo (5 Dec. - Cote-d'or - Beaune) 1851-19??, who also published on diatom classification.

The gastropod name Typhis perchardei Radwin & D'Attilio, 1976 is a tribute to Peter L. Percharde, 19??- Point Fortin, Trinidad.

Arthur Blaney Percival, (7 Mar. - Newcastle-upon-Tyne) 1875-1941 (20 Jan. - Mandu Estate, near Machakos, Kenya), British Malacologist and collector in East Africa.

The Russian Dr. Sofja Michailowna Perejaslawzewa, 1851?-1904, PhD in Zürich in 1876, later leader for 10 years of the Biological Institute in Sevastopol, published about protozooans in the Black Sea in 1885, is honoured in the ciliate name Zoothamnium perejaslawzewae Kahl, 1935.

Prof. Léon Joseph Jean Marie Pérès, (8 Oct. - Montpellier) 1915-1998 (9 Mar. - Marseille), French biological oceanographer, mentioned as the "insubmersible professor" [Lagenorhynchus peresi Brunet, 1969, Sarsameira peresi Bodin, 1970, Peresiella Harmelin, 1968, Pseudobradya peresi Soyer, 1974, Amphioplus (Lymanella) peresi Cherbonnier & Guille, 1978, Pyroleptomysis peresi (Bacescu, 1966), Atlanta peresi Frontier, 1966, Favites peresi Faure & Pichon, 1978].

Prof. Charles Pérez, (19 May - Bordeaux) 1873-1952 (22 Sep. - Paris), French naturalist, who i.a. 1924-25 wrote a couple of articles about Phascolion and earlier published on pyrosomes and salps together with J. Bonnier (q.v.). His father Jean M. Pérez, 1833-1914, was zoology professor at the faculty of Bordeaux and his fathers sister was married to Paul Pelseneer (q.v.) in Brussels. He was director of the Roscoff laboratory [Ondina perezi (Dautzenberg & Fisher, 1925), Lequerrea perezi Chatton & Harant, 1924, Perezia Léger & Duboscq, 1909, Peracreadium perezi Mathias, 1926, Cabirops perezi Carayon, 1942, Loxomespilon perezi Bobin & Prenant, 1953, Danielssenia perezi Monard, 1935, Catostylus perezi Ranson, 1945, Bathyamaryllis perezii Pirlot, 1933, Gaevskajatrema perezi (Mathias, 1926), Temnopleurus perezi Koehler, 1905].

Melanella salvadori Castellanos & al., 1987 was named for Mr. Salvador Pérez, 19??-, (Argentina?).

Lacking information about Perez in the Caribbean reef shark name Carcharhinus perezi (Poey, 1876).

Gustavo Perez-Dionis, 19??-, malacologist from Tenerife, Canary Islands [Turbonilla perezdionisi Penas & Rolan, 1997, Manzonia dionisi Rolan, 1987, likely Baptodoris perezi Llera & Ortea in Ortea, Perez & Llera, 1982].

Pergament : (see Gorbunov).

The amphipod name Hyale perieri (Lucas, 1846) may possibly be a name with an odd spelling, because Perier is likely not a common French family name, while Perrier is, so possibly the name may be a tribute to a person named so, but Edmond Perrier (q.v.) was of course too young at this occasion.

The mollusc name Peringia Paladilhe, 1874 is honouring the Pering family, "qui donna l'hospitalité au Dr. Paladilhe, à Londres, du 28 juillet au 11 août 1870".

Lacking information about Peristed in the copepod name Blias? peristedii (Krøyer, 1863).

Lacking information about E.J. Perkins, 19??-, British marine biologist (who published on harpacticoids in 1956), in the copepod name Microarthridion perkinsi Bodin, 1970.

Prof. Frank O. Perkins, (14 Feb.) 1938-, US Professor of Marine Science at Virginia Institute of Marine Science, later at the University of Hawaii at Manoa [phylum Perkinsozoa, Perkinsus Levine, 1978, Perkinsiella Hollande, 1981].

Thomas H. Perkins, (13 July) 1937-, at the Florida Marine Research Institute, St. Petersburg, Florida, is honoured in the polychaete names Perkinsiana P. Knight-Jones, 1983 , Phalacrostemma perkinsi Kirtley, 1994 & Amphicorina perkinsi Capa & López, 2004. Perkins is working i.a. on Sabellids.

Péron : (see Lesueur).

Lacking information about Perotae in the W African fish name Pomadasys perotaei (Cuvier, 1830) if overhead an eponym?

Jean François de Galaup (Comte) de La Pérouse, (23 Aug. - La Gua (Albi)) 1741-1788 (vanished in the neigbourhood of Vanikoro, Melanesia), French malacologist, who was the commander of the French expedition to explore the Pacific in 1785 [Kellia laperousi Deshayes, 1839, Serripes laperousii (Deshayes, 1839)].

Lacking information about Perrier in the hydroid name Nemertesia perrieri Meneghini, 1845.

Prof. Dr. Jean Octave Edmond Perrier, (9 May - Tulle) 1844-1921 (31 July - Paris), French Lamarckian naturalist, interested in echinoderms, particularly asteroids & echinoids. The higher classification of this group is founded much on his work. He eventually - 1900-1919 - became director of the Natural History Museum in Paris after A. Milne-Edwards (q.v.) [Perrierella Chevreux & Bouvier, 1892, Devonia perrieri (Malard, 1904), Marginella perrieri Bavay, 1906, Monachocrinus perrieri (Koehler & Vaney, 1910), Myxaster perrieri Koehler, 1896, Maeropsis perrieri Chevreux, 1919, Stenothoides perrieri Chevreux, 1900, Coeloplana perrieri Dawydoff, 1930, Ctenoplana perrieri (Dawydoff, 1930), Heliacus perrieri (Rochebrune, 1881), Ctenocidaris perrieri Koehler, Lysaster perrieri (Studer)]. His brother Prof. Dr. Rémy Perrier, (14 June - Tulle) 1861-1936 (27 June - Chaunac), (PhD. in 1890 on a thesis on prosobranchs) was working on echinoderms during the same era, but did also publish on e.g. opisthobranchs together with Henri Fischer (q.v.) and retired from his professorship of zoology in Paris in 1931.

The gastropod name Graphis perrierae de Barros et al., 2003 is in honour of Prof. Lauricea de Lima Perrier, 19??-, who provided sediment. (Dr. Riccardo Giannuzzi-Savelli, Palermo, kindly provided this information).

Lacking information about Perrin in the Indo-Pacific gastropod name Cerithiopsis perrini J. G. Hertlein & A. M. Strong, 1951, but possibly a late tribute to Prof. Dr. James Perrin Smith, (27 Nov. - Cokesbury, South Carolina) 1864-1931 (1 Jan.), professor of Palaeontology at Leland Stanford Jr. Univ.? At least some palaeontological mollusk species (e.g. Pecten perrini Ralph Arnold) are named in his honour.

Lacking information about Perrotet in the Indonesian & Timor Sea octocolal name Pinnigorgia perroteti (Stiasny, 1940).

Lacking information about Perry in the NW Atlantic polychaete name Tetreres perryi Kirtley, 1994, but possibly a tribute to Mark D. Perry, 19??-, executive director of Florida Oceanographic Society.

Thomas Gregory Perry, 1919-1972, from Ontario, later working in Indiana, USA, as a Geologist, mainly interested in palaeobryozooans.

The gastropod name Cerodrillia perryae Bartsch & Rehder, 1939, Conus perryae Clench, 1942 and Kurtziella perryae Bartsch & Rehder, 1939 are likely honouring the US malacologist Dr. Louise M. Perry, 1878-1962, who began publishing not later than 1940.

The gastropod name Volutharpa perryi (Jay, 1855), is not a tribute to George Perry Jr., 1771-18??, British architecht, stone mason and amateur palaeomalacologist, who i.a published his monthly Arcana around 1810-11 and his book Conchology in 1811, but was captured during the Perry Japan Expedition 1852-1854, so it is a tribute to its leader Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, (10 Apr. - New York City) 1794-1858 (4 Mar. - New York City), collector of shells and fishes.

Nikolaj Andreevich Pertzov, 1924-1987, is honoured in the heliozoan name Rabdiaster pertzovi (Mikrjukov, 1994) Mikrukov, 1999 and in the tantulocarid name Arcticotantulus pertzovii Kornev, Tchesunov & Rybnikov, 2004. Pertzov was during 1951-87 head of the White Sea Biological Station of Moscow University - not its founder and first director, but he was much involved in the establishment and after his death it got the name N.A. Pertzov White Sea Biological Station of Moscow University. (Dr. Georgyi Vinogradov kindly provided this information).

Alberto Perugia, (Trieste) 1843-1897 (24 Sep. - Genoa, aged 54), published about Adriatic fishes in 1881 and several papers on monogeneans together with Corrado Parona (q.v.) between 1889-96 [Amphibdella paronaperugiae Llewellyn, 1960, Capsaloides perugiai (Setti, 1898), Tristoma perugiai (Setti, 1898)].

The diatom name Parlibellus perytii Witkowski, Lange-Bertalot & Metzeltin, 2000 is dedicated to Prof. Dr. Tadeusz Marek Peryt, 19??-, Polish Geological Institute, Warsaw.

Prof. Dr. Otto Pesta, (8 June - Innsbruck) 1885-1974 (5 Apr.), was a student of Adolf Steuer (q.v.) at Innsbruck. He is best-known as the head curator of crustaceans at the Museum of Natural History in Wien (Vienna), where he worked on both decapods and copepods. In copepods, he is memorialized by the genus Pestalichomolgus C. B. Wilson, 1932, and by seven species, e.g. Mimocorycella pestai Rose, 1929 and Mesochra pestai Lang, 1948. Prof. Pesta was a kind gentleman of the old school, and had many friends; D. Damkaer - who provided this information - was privileged to make his acquaintance in Vienna in 1967 [Pestarella Ngoc-Ho, 2003, Rhyncholagena pestai (Monard, 1935), Filexilia pestae (Petkovski, 1955)].

Prof. Dr. Vincenzo Petagna, (17 Jan.) 1734-1810 (6 Oct.), Italian physician, entomologist and professor of botany at the Univ. of Naples, who also published on e.g. crustaceans. An entomologist namesake, his son, is Dr. Luigi Petagna, (27 Aug. - Napoli) 1779-1832 (29 Mar.) [Gregariella petagnae Scacchi, 1832]. (Dr. Riccardo Giannuzzi-Savelli kindly provided the university belonging).

The polychaete name Rhynchonereella petersii (Langerhans, 1880), the opisthobranch name Haminoea petersi Martens, the cephalopod name Sepietta petersi (Steenstrup, 1887) and the echinoid name Hygrosoma petersii (A. Agassiz, 1880) may all be named for Prof. Wilhelm (= Guilielmus) Karl Hartwig Peters, (22 Apr. - Koldenbüttel, Schleswig) 1815-1883 (20 Apr.), collector (mainly in southern Africa) connected to the Berlin Museum, being an assistant to J. Müller (q.v.) in the beginning of his career.

G. H. Petersen : (see Høpner Petersen).

The Danish gunboat Hauch (which had been transformed into a fishery research ship) made from 1883 on, summer samplings in Danish waters under direction of Dr. Carl Georg Johannes Petersen, (24 Oct.) 1860-1928 (11 May), [Sepia peterseni Appellöf, 1886]. The well-known Petersen bottom sampler was constructed by him, but not the Petersen plankton net, which was made for Carl Chun (q.v.) by his friend the Russian Eugen (or Eugenio - real name likely Jevgenij) von Petersen, 18??-1???, who was an engeneer at Stazione zoologica in Napoli (Naples). He simply reconstructed the kind of net, which Palumbo (q.v.) had used.

Asteropterygion peterseni Kornicker, 1981 was named for Hans Petersen, 19??-, of Institute of Zoology, University of Hamburg, Germany. This is likely Hans E.E. Petersen, who in 1974 together with Gerd Hartmann published on the crustacean types in the collections of the Hamburg Museum.

The polychate species Sthenelanella peterseni Da Cunha Lana, 1991 was named for the late Dr. Jorge Alberto Petersen, 1932-1983 (Sâo Sebastiâo, tragical accident), "in recognition of his contribution to the field of experimental ecology along the Brazilian coast". Likely the Brazilian holothuroid Pentacta peterseni Lopez, 1969 is named for the same person.

Dr. Mary Elizabeth "Cricket" Petersen, (8 Feb. - Nyack, New York) 1938-, US-Danish polychaetologist at the Zoologisk Museum, København (Copenhagen). US citicen, but resident in Denmark since 1965 [Ampharete petersenae Jirkov, 1997, Magelona petersenae Nateewathana & Hylleberg, 1991, Aphelochaeta petersenae J.A. Blake, 1996].

Dr. Kay Werner Petersen, 19??- Danish cnidarian worker [possibly Euphysilla peterseni Allwein, 1967, likely Sphaerocoryne peterseni Bouillon, 1984]. He seems to have been inactive during a few years, but is likely retired.

Lt. R.M. Petersen, 18??-19??, 1:rst helmsman on board "Vöringen", the ship of the Norwegian North Atlantic Expedition [Skenea peterseni (Friele, 1877)].

Elisabet Petersson, 1873-1919 (16 Mar.), achieved a fil.kand examination in Uppsala in 1902 and worked then as a teacher, but became interested in nature and visited the Helgoland Station during the summer 1913, to Kristineberg in 1915, to Väderöarna in 1916, to the Trondheim Biological station in 1917 and she also visited Kristineberg the summers 1912 and 1918 and she had during 1915-16 quitted her teacher job and began working for the Natural History Museum in Göteborg, mainly preparing marine invertebrates. She suffered from pulmonary tuberculosis.

Willis K. Peterson, 19??-, Dept. of Oceanography, Univ. of Washington, designed and built the net in which he catched the samples containing Lubbockia petersoni Heron & Damkaer, 1978.

Prof. Georges Jean-Jacques Petit, (4 Oct.) 1892-1973 (29 Nov. - Montpellier), French marine biologist, director of the marine stations in Banyuls-sur-mer and Villefranche-sur-mer [Archiloa petiti Ax, 1956, Phyllodicola petiti (Delamare-Deboutteville & Laubier, 1960), Scambicornus petiti (Stock & Kleeton, 1963), Spongiocnizon petiti Stock & Kleeton, 1964, Uromunna petiti (Amar, 1948), Ocnus petiti (Cherbonnier, 1958), Thalassarachna petiti (Angelier, 1950), Eurycletodes petiti Soyer, 1964, Enterocola petiti Guille, 1964, Turbanella petiti Remane, 1952, Halacarellus petiti Angelier, 1950, Lioniella petiti Riedl, 1954, Jaera petiti Schulz, 1953, Anapagurus petiti Dechancé & Forest, 1962, Trachelocerca geopetiti Dragesco, 1954].

Richard Eugene Petit, 1931-, Myrtle Beach. South Carolina, US insurance agent and amateur conchologist, interested mainly in the family Cancellariidae [Cancellaria richardpetiti Petuch, 1987, Fenimorea petiti Tippett, 1995, Malea petiti Petuch, 1989].

The diatom name Hantzschia petitiana (Grunow) Grunow in Cleve & Grunow, 1880 is most likely a tribute to the algal researcher Paul Charles Mirbel Petit, 1834-1913.

Sauveur Abel Aubert Petit de la Saussaye, 1792-1870, French editor of "Journal de Conchyliologie" [Zonaria pyrum petitiana (Crosse, 1872), Neritina petitii (Recluz, 1841), likely Haminoea petiti (d'Orbigny, 1841)]. (Thomas E. Eichhorst, New Mexico, kindly provided the connection of the Neritina petitii).

Petit-Thouars : (see Du Petit-Thouars).

The decapod name Acanthonix petiveri Milne Edwards, 1831, is likely a tribute to a Petiver, who was very interested in nature more than 100 years before Milne Edwards, namely James Petiver, (Warwickshire) 1663-1718 (20 Apr. - London), an unmarried London apothecary, who was a member of the Royal Society, had large collections of a diversity of natural objects and corresponded with naturalists almost all over the world.

Dr. Trajan K. Petkovski, 19??-, copepod worker at the Natural History Museum, Skopje, Macedonia [Amphiascoides petkovskii Lang, 1965].

Lacking information about Petruschewski in the myxozoan name Myxobolus petruschewskii Zhukov, 1964, but possibly a tribute to Th. Petruschewski, 18??-1???, who was active in spectroscopical investigations in Russia during the 1880s?

Pterobothrioides petterae Campbell & Beveridge, 1997 is honouring Dr. Annie Petter, (17 Dec.) 1932-, a disciple of Chabaud (q.v.), famous specialist of nematodes parasitic in fishes. She is now (year 2002) retired but still active at the Laboratoire de Biologie parasitaire, Protistologie, Helminthologie, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. She has also some parasites from fresh water animals named for her. (Prof. Jean-Lou Justine, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, kindly added the information about Dr. Petter).

Mr. William Frederick Petterd, (13 July - Hobart Town) 1849-1910 (15 Apr., heart failure), boot and shoe importer of Tasmania, friend, correspondent and fellow voyager of the author of Rissoa petterdi Brazier, 1897. Petterd published more than 50 papers on geology and conchology [Dagnaudus petterdi (Grant 1905), Latreillopsis petterdi Grant 1905, Benthoxystus petterdi J. Brazier in Crosse, 1870, Thrypticotrochus petterdi (Dennant, 1906), Fossarina petterdi Crosse, 1870, Notoacmea petterdi (Tenison-Woods, 1876)].

Hans & Otto Pettersson : (see Ekman).

Dr. Marian Hope Pettibone, 1908-2003 (17 Dec.), Polychaete taxonomist at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington (D.C.), active until 1998, when she moved to her family in the Tacoma-Seattle area in the state of Washington, where she was born [Mariansabellaria Kirtley, 1994, Sthenelais marianae Hartmann-Schröder, 1980, Fimbriosthenelais marianae Da Cunha Lana, 1991, Levidorum pettibonae Perkins, 1987, Ophtalmonoe pettiboneae Petersen & Britayev, 1997, Synidotea pettiboneae Hatch, 1947].

Lacking information about Pettit in the nematod name Eurystomina pettiti Inglis, 1962.

Dr. Edward James Petuch, (Bethesda, Maryland) 1949-, US paleontologist with malacological interests [Drillia (Clathrodrillia) petuchi Tippett, 1995, Aspella petuchi Vokes, 1995, Murexiella (Murexiella) petuchi Vokes, 1994, Poirieria (Paziella) petuchi Vokes, 1992, Cancellaria petuchi Harasewych, Petit & Verhecken, 1992]. His wife Linda has been celebrated in several names [Lindapterys Petuch, 1987, Lindapecten Petuch, 1995 lindae Petuch, 1995, Voluta lindae Petuch, 1987, Turricostellaria lindae Petuch, 1987, Gracilancilla lindae Petuch, 1987, Conomitra lindae Petuch, 1987, Aphera lindae Petuch, 1987, Favartia lindae Petuch, 1987, Terebra (Myurella) lindae Petuch, 1987, Conus lindae Petuch, 1987, Truncaria lindae Petuch, 1987, Heilprinia lindae Petuch, 1987, Sconsia lindae Petuch, 1987, Morum (Cancellomorum) lindae Petuch, 1987, Phenacovolva (Turbovula) lindae Petuch, 1987, Cyphoma lindae Petuch, 1987, Turritella (Torcula) lindae Petuch, 1987, Modulus lindae Petuch, 1987, Cerithium lindae Petuch, 1987, Subcancilla lindae Petuch, 1987, Polystira lindae Petuch, 1987, Paraborsonia lindae Petuch, 1987, likely also Murex lindajoyceae Petuch, 1987, Noetia (Noetia) lindae Petuch, 1998]. (Andrew Vik, Tampa, Florida kindly provided the information about who Linda is and the middle name James).

Dr. Wolfgang Petz, (Aigen) 1961-, Austrian ciliophora specialist, a disciple of Foissner (q.v.).

Peyrot-Clausade : (see Clausade).

Peyskens : (see Poppe).

Dr. Jean-André Peyssonel, (19 June - Marseille) 1694-1759 (24 Dec. - Guadeloupe), French botanist and zoologist (as a zoologist he is mainly remembered for discovering the animal nature of corals, although Imperato (q.v.) should perhaps be honoured for beeing first). He was later appointed Physician-Botanist in the island of Guadaloupe [Peissonelia Decaisne, 1841].

Enrico Pezzoli, 19??-, Italian malacologist from Milano, active in molluscan conservation [Pezzolia Bodon & Giusti, 1986].

The crab species Trichopeltarion pezzutoi Tavares & S. de Melo, 2005 is in honour of the Brazil researcher Dr. Paulo Ricardo Pezzuto, 19??-, "in recognition of his continuous efforts to secure crustacean specimens caught during commercial deep-water fishing operations".

Pfannkuche : (see Cholnoky).

The tanaid name Neotanais pfaffi Wolff, 1956 must likely be a tribute to Dr. Johannes R. Pfaff, 1896-1959, who published on coastal fishes in the Galathea Report.

Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Friedrich Philipp Pfeffer, (9 Mar. - Grebenstein) 1845-1920 (31 Jan.). Dissertation 1865 in Göttingen. He was a disciple of Pringsheim (q.v.) in Berlin, after that he studied and worked in Marburg, Würzburg and Bonn, eventually he became a professor of botany in Leipzig 1887 after 10 years of similar duty in Basel and Tübingen. He was a specialist of Osmosis. Another - probably not related - Dr. Georg Johann Pfeffer, (Berlin) 1854-1931, from 1887 working as curator at the Hamburg Museum, published a few articles about animal life in the Antarctic region between 1889-90 and wrote during the beginning of the 20:th century mainly about cephalopods [Ebalia pfefferi De Man, 1888, Abraliopsis pfefferi Joubin, 1896, Helicocranchia pfefferi Massy, 1907, Metasepia pfefferi Hoyle, 1885, Sepiola pfefferi Grimpe, 1921, likely Brookula pfefferi Powell, 1951].

Dr. Louis (Ludwig) Georg Karl Pfeiffer, (4 July - Kassel) 1805-1877 (2 Oct. - Kassel), German physician, botanist and malacologist, also publishing on parasitical protozoans, but almost only working on terrestrial material [Nassarius pfeifferi Philippi, 1844, possibly Leiodermatum pfeifferae (Carter, 1876), Solen pfeifferi R. W. Dunker, 1862]. Carl Jonas Pfeiffer, 1779-1836, was a German malacologist, but was not his father. Karl Ludwig Pfeiffer, (5 Sep.) 1874-1952 (14 June), was a German malacologist as well and is probably related to the others [Abraliopsis hoylei pfeifferi Joubin, 1896]. Two other zoologist by the name of Ludwig Pfeiffer, 1842-1921 (published "Die Protozoen als Krankheitserreger") & Ludwig Pfeiffer, 1878-1926, may also be related. Whether they were related to the traveller and author Ida Pfeiffer, (14 Oct. - Wien) 1797-1858 (27 Oct. - Wien), from Vienna is unknown to the compiler, but not likely, because she was born Reyer and Pfeiffer was her married name.

Lacking information about Pflugfelder in the myxozoan name Unicapsula pflugfelderi Schuberg, Sprague & Reinboth, 1975, but likely a tribute to Prof. Otto Pflugfelder, (15 Feb.) 1904-1994 (2 Jan.), who in 1950 published from Jena about "Zooparasiten", but later worked in Stuttgart.

Albert Pflueger Sr., 1903?-1962 (Nov., aged 59?), a South Florida sport fisherman, is honoured in the W Atlantic fish name Tetrapturus pfluegeri Robins & de Sylva, 1963. (There are a father Al Pflueger sr., who opened a small taxidemy business in Hallendale, Florida in 1926 and a son Al Pflueger jr., sharing his fathers fishing interest, by the same name).

Dr. Murk Fekkes van Phelsum, (6 Aug. - Sneek) 1732-1779 (21 Aug. - Sneek), Dutch student of medicine, who also published on zoology, e.g. on echinoderms. The exact dates of his birth and death, which long was a bit unclear, has become obvious through inscriptions in two different spoons found.

Phil in Alcyonosyllis phili Glasby & Watson, 2001 : (see Alderslade).

Who was Philbert in Philbertia Monterosato,1884, which was founded on Pleurotoma philberti Michaud, 1829 (if not originally a misspelling of e.g. Philibert Commerson's (q.v.) first name)? Likely the same person is honoured in the gastropod names Gibbula philberti (Récluz, 1843) & Peristernia philberti (Récluz, 1844). The only trace of this person else seem to be the MS name Monodonta mongini Philbert (from the Agde region) for M. mutabilis (Philippi, 1846).

Lacking information about Philbin? in the polychaete name Aricidia philbinae Brown, 1976, but likely in honour of Linda M. Philbin, 19??-, US plankton researcher, who published on marine biological items during this time.

Phil Colman : (see Colman).

Lacking information about Philipi in the Indian cephalopod name Opisthoteuthis philipii Oommen, 1976.

Philippe : (see Poppe).

Prof. Rudolph Amandus (Rodolpho Armando) Philippi, (14 Sep. - Berlin-Charlottenburg) 1808-1904 (23 July - Santiago de Chile), German palaeontologist and zoologist, i.a. well-known for his "Abbildungen" (illustrated monographs); he was mainly working in the Mediterranean area, where he went in his youth in order to die in a mild climate, because he felt sick and thought that the end of his life was close. However, he recovered and lived a very long life, which eventually ended in Chile, because he immigrated to Santiago in 1851 invited by his brother Bernhard Eunom Philippi, (19 Sep. - Charlottenburg) 1811-1852 (6 Sep. - Punta Arenas), who worked for the government there. After a few years over there, he was appointed professor of botany and zoology in Santiago, as well as director of the natural history museum [Pusillina philippi (Aradas & Maggiore, 1844), Sphaerodoropsis philippi (Fauvel, 1911), Gibberula philippii Monterosato, 1878, Platydoris philippi Bergh, 1877, Yoldiella philippiana Nyst, 1845, Bathyarca philippiana Nyst, 1848, Philippia Gray, 1847, Homalopoma philippiana (Dall,1889), Lucapina philippiana (Finlay, 1930), Calotrophon philippiana (Dall, 1889), Anodontia philippiana (Reeve, 1850), Sinum philippii Weinkauff, 1868, Attiliosa philippiana W. H. Dall, 1889, Conus philippii L. C. Kiener, 1845, Penaeus philippii Bate 1881]. His son Federico (Friedrich Heinrich Eunom) Philippi, (16 Dec. - Napoli) 1838-1910 (16 Jan. - Santiago de Chile), became a well-known botanist in Chile.

The tanaid name Scoloura phillipsi Sieg & Dojiri, 1991 is in honour of Charles A. (Tony) Pillips, 19??-, Biology. Laboratory, Environmental Monitoring Division, Hyperion Treatment Plant. Also the polychaete name Aphelochaeta phillipsi J.A. Blake, 1996 may possibly be a tribute to him?

The green algal name Epicladia phillipsii (Batters) R. Nielsen may honour one of a few Phillips, who has worked on algae, e.g. Prof. John Phillips, (25 Dec. - Marden, Wiltshire) 1800-1874 (24 Apr., after a fall down some stairs the day before), or Reginald William Phillips, 1854-1926.

Lacking information about Phillips in the gastropod name Pterynotus phillipsi E.H. Vokes, 1966 and in the bivalve name Bushia (Bushia) phillipsi Coan, 1990.

Prof. Dr. Harry Kenyon Phinney, 1918-1990 (9 Nov.), PhD at Northwestern Univ. in 1945, Botany department, Oregon State Univ., is honoured in the nematode name Dagda phinneyi Murphy, 1964.

Constantine John Phipps (later 2:nd Baron Mulgrave), (19 May) 1744-1792 (10 Oct. - Liège), F.R.S., English naval officer, who under command of Israel Lyons in a trial to find the North Pole, initially with "Racehorse" later with "Carcass" in 1773, visited Spitsbergen and described some animals from this area, in "A voyage towards the north pole undertaken by His Majesty's Command" 1774 [Phippsia Stebbing, 1906, Phippsiella Schellenberg, 1925, Spirontocaris phippsii (Krøyer, 1841), Plagiorhynchus phippsi Kostylev, 1922].

Prof. Dr. Fred B. Phleger, (31 July - Kansas City) 1909-1993 (14 Dec. - Solana Beach, California), U.S. foraminiferologist (educated by Cushman (q,v)), working during 35 years at Scripps. Took part in the Swedish "Albatross" expedition. He was active even after retireing, but his health declined after his wife's Marjorie decease in february 1986. [Rectuvigerina phlegeri Le Calvez, 1958, Cibicidoides phlegeri (Uchio, 1960)].

The diatom name Parlibellus phoebeae Witkowski, Metzeltin & Lange-Bertalot, 2000 is dedicated to Phoebe Dione Metzeltin-Sass, 19??-, who collected the type material.

Piero Piani, 1940-, from Bologna, amateur malacologist and owner of "Libreria Naturalistica Bolognese" [Pseudomalletia pianii van Aartsen & Giannuzzi-Savelli, 1991].

Dr. Jacques Picard, 19??-, Prof. in Marseille, has published on Mediterranean benthos (sometimes together with Pérèz (q.v.)), is honoured in the Kalyptorhynchan name Didiadema picardi Brunet, 1965, the hydroid name Aglaophenia picardi Svoboda, 1979, the isopod name Disconectes picardi (Amar, 1957), the bryozoan names Puellina picardi Harmelin, 1987 & Hippoporidra picardi Gautier, 1962, the holothurian name Protankyra picardi Cherbonnier, 1988 and the ophiuran name Amphiodia (Amphiodia) picardi Cherbonnier & Guille, 1978. He mainly published during the 1950s and 1960s and should not be confused with Jacques Piccard, Auguste Piccard's son (see Beebe).

François Picard, 1879-1939, French botanist and worker on Laboulbeniaceae.

Lacking information about Picart in the W African fish name Hyporhamphus picarti (Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1847)

Piccard : (see Beebe).

Dr. Michel Pichon, 19??-, Station Marine d'Endoume, Marseille, leader of Cidaris Expedition, which collected scaphopods studied by the authors of Episiphon pichoni Lamprell & Healey, 1998. He also - when scuba diving - collected the type material of Synstellicola pichoni (Humes & Ho, 1966), when stationed at the Centre d'Oceanographie et des Pêches at Nosy Bé, Madagascar. Pichon has published on scleractinians and anthozoans [Bradypontius pichoni Stock, 1966, Cladolabes pichoni Cherbonnier, 1988].

Lacking information about Pichon in the octocoral name Siphonogorgia pichoni Kölliker, 1874, but possibly a tribute to the Paris publication firm F. Pichon?

Pichon : (see also Le Pichon).

Prof. Em. Dr. Peter E. Pickens, 19??-, of the Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, is honoured in the nudibranch names Doris pickensi Marcus & Marcus, 1967 and Tritonia pickensi Marcus & Marcus, 1967, after having collected a vast material of opisthobranchs, which the Marcus family received and described.

Charles Pickering : (see Dana).

The bivalve name Spondylus pickeringae Lamprell, 1998 may likely honour Mrs. Joan Pickering, 1942-, curator of mollusca at the British Museum (Nat. Hist.), and so is likely the case also with Cerithiopsis pickeringae Jay & Drivas, 2002.

Dr. Grace Evelyn Pickford, (24 Mar. - Bournemouth, England) 1902-1986 (20 Jan. - Hiram, Ohio), PhD at Yale Univ. in 1931 under Professor Alexander Ivanovitch Petrunkewitch, (22 Dec. - Pliski, a town near Kiev) 1875-1964 (9 Mar. - New Haven) (a well known arachnologist), and published on cephalopods during the 1940s and 1950s and is honoured in the cephalopod names Pickfordiateuthis Voss, 1953 & Loligo pickfordae Adams, 1954. She moved to USA after spending the years 1925-28 in South Africa, collecting eartworms, which provided the base of her dissertation and worked at Yale Univ - mainly on fish, after retirement in 1970 at Hiram College. (See also Hutchinson for information about her husband)

Pickworth : (see S.P. Woodward).

The salp name Ritteriella picteti (Apstein, 1904), the cephalopod name Chiroteuthis picteti Joubin, 1894 and the ophiuroid names Ophiactis picteti (de Loriol, 1898) and Ophiothrix picteti may possibly be honouring Dr. Jules Camille Pictet, (Geneva) 1864-1893 (Geneva), hydroid worker, who met Bedot (q.v.) in Villefranche-sur Mer and in 1890 together with him undertook a collecting expedition to Borneo and Amboina, but 2 years after returning from the expedition Pictet unexpectedly died, or the Swiss palaeontologist Prof. François Jules (Francesco Guilio) de la Rive Pictet, (27 Sep. - Geneva) 1809-1872 (15 Mar. - Geneva), or any of the zoologists A. Edouard Pictet, (Geneva) 1835-1879, (son of F.J. Pictet, mainly a Neuroptera student) and Dr. Arnold Pictet, (29 May - Geneva) 1869-1948 (31 Mar. - Geneva), who worked at the Univ. of Geneva, mainly as an entomologist.

Dr. Bernard Eric Picton, (5 Jan.) 1951-, Irish marine zoologist (in Belfast), mainly with hard bottom fauna and underwater photography interests. He has built wonderful web sites about British / Irish nudibranchs, etc., but is now mainly working on sponges. [Tectidrilus pictoni (Erséus, 1984)].

Pidgeon : (see Griffith).

Prof. Richard N. Pienaar, 1942-, South African marine planktonic algae researcher at Department of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Dr. Umberto Pierantoni, (25 Sep. - Caserta) 1876-1959 (16 Nov. - Napoli), Italian zoologist, working on annelids [Limnodriloides pierantonii (Hrabe, 1971), Paratimea pierantonii Sarà, 1958].

Lacking information about Pierce in the hermit crab name Goreopagurus piercei (Wass, 1963), but possibly not an eponym, but found at the Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce in Florida?

Pierce : (see Bache).

Lacking information about Pierrick(i) in the nematode name Pierrickia Vitiello, 1970.

Lacking information about Pierrier in the hydroid name Nemertesia pierrieri (Billard, 1901), but Pierrier is likely not a common family name, so the author may have meant that some structure looked like pierrieries, i.e. jewel stones.

Dr. Annelies C. Pierrot-Bults, 1943-, Dutch zoologist at the Zoological Museum, Amsterdam. Specialist on zooplankton, e.g. Chaetognatha. (Dr. Harry A. ten Hove, at the Museum, kindly provided the date).

Lacking information about Piersma in the gastropod name Alvania piersmai Moolenbeek & Hoenselaar, 1989. Possibly Prof. Dr. Theunis Piersma, (15 June - Hemelumer Oldeferd) 1958-, Groningen, who i.a. has published on mollusk eating sea birds.

Prof. Dr. Theodore (Ted) Wells Pietsch III, (6 Mar. - Royal Oak, Michigan) 1945-, Seattle, is an angler fish researcher. [Pietschichthys Kharin, 1969, Caulophryne pietschi Balushkin & Fedorov, 1985, Icelinus pietschi Yabe, Soma & Amaoka, 2001, Oneirodes pietschi Ho & Shao, 2004, Hydrichthys pietschi Martin, 1975 (now often named Stomatoca pietschi (Martin, 1975); it is a parasite of Ceratias holboelli), Lasiognathus amphirhampus pietschi ]

The Austrian Prof. Viktor Pietschmann, (27 Oct. - Wien) 1881-1956 (11 Nov.), published on e.g. fishes and collected Pacific crustaceans and other organisms for colleagues. He took part in several collection expeditions and continued to work after retirement, until an eye sickness stopped him to continue his work [Syngastes pietschmanni Pesta, 1932].

Lacking information about Dr. Emile Piguet, 18??-19??, in the oligochaete name Aulodrilus pigueti Kowalewski, 1914. Piguet published on oligochaetes in Geneva in 1906 and 1913 and kept publishing at least until 1928.

Nicolas Pike, 1815-1905, the US consul in Mauritius between 1866-76, collected algae there.

Dr. Richard B. Pike, (2 Oct. - Kobe, Japan) 1911- (still active as a pastels painter in 2006), helped to collect copepods for the paper in which Sphaeronella pikei Green, 1958 was described. His father - from Surrey, England worked as a banker in Japan, later in New Zealand during WWI and several other countries, before moving back to UK (Jersey), while Richard was a child. An early interest in nature, e.g. butterflies, got him to leave a life as a hotel manager in spe and tried to become an artist, but finally chosed the career as a biologist, studying at the Univ. of Reading. He was a marine zoologist at the Scottish Marine Biological Station at Millport, Isle of Cumbrae, Firth of Clyde. At age 50, his wife thought that they should move and New Zealand, where he had spent some years as very yong, became the familys new home. After his retirement as a zoologist there, he started a new career as a pastels artist. (Dr. Sandy Bruce, Australia, kindly mentions: "I met him there (Millport) when he was particularly helpful to me when I was trying to study decapods during my military service in the late '50's. He was specially interested in decapod larvae, hermit crabs and their bopyrid parasites. He later transferred to the Zoology Department of Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and finally, it appears, to the Fisheries Research Division, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Wellington. He last published in 1980. It was after him that I named the bopyrid Hypophryxus pikei Bruce, 1968").

The gastropod name Conus pilkeyi E. J. Petuch, 1974 may possibly be a tribute to Prof. Em. Dr. Orrin H. Pilkey, (19 Sep.) 1934-, who has published on coral reefs

Dr. Narayana Krishna Pillai, 1921-, at the University of Kerala, achieved his PhD in 1958 on isopods, although earlier working on crabs and later also on amphipods and mysidaceans and finally also parasitical copepods.

Dr. T. Gottfried Pillai, 19??-, serpulid taxonomist at the Natural History Museum, London.

J.E. Pillsbury : (see Bache).

The Surinam cephalopod Euaxoctopus pillsburyae Voss, 1975 was collected from the R/V John Elliott Pillsbury (see Bache).

Dr. Henry Augustus Pilsbry, (7 Dec. - close to Iowa City, Iowa) 1862-1957 (26 Oct. - Lantana, Florida), (nicknamed Harry, when still in Iowa), U.S. Philadelphia zoologist, working on cirripedians and molluscs, especially land snails. He was a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and published probably more than any contemporary malacologist. He had married in Oct. 1890 to Adeline Bullock Avery, but became a widower in 1924. He lived in his summer house in Florida together with one of his daughters (Elizabeth & Grace (married name Barcroft)), when he passed away, after having had a heart attack alredy some weeks before, after which he appeared to recover. [Ischnochiton pilsbryi W. T. Bednall, 1897, Ischnchiton pilsbryanus Bednall, 1897, Stenochiton pilsbryanus W. T. Bednall, 1897, Gruvelialepas pilsbryi (Gruvel, 1911), Cirsotrema pilsbryi (McGinty, 1940), Macromphalina pilsbryi Olsson & McGinty, 1958, Anticlimax pilsbryi McGinty, 1945, Acanthochitona pilsbry (Sykes, 1896), Antalis pilsbryi Rehder, 1942, likely Henrya Bartsch, 1947 henryi Bartsch, 1947, Drillia pilsbryi (Bartsch, 1950), Glyphostoma pilsbryi Schwengel, 1940, Scaphander pilsbryi McGinty, 1955, Ensitellops pilsbryi (Dall, 1899), Zirfaea pilsbryi Lowe, 1931, Aglaia pilsbryi (Eliot, 1899), Imaclava pilsbryi Bartsch, 1950, Chthamalus pilsbryi Hiro, 1936, Tetraclita pilsbryi Utinomi, 1962, Philinopsis pilsbryi (Eliot, 1900) + several more eponyms].

Marcel Pin, 19??-end of the 1990s-2001, from Dakar (Senegal), malacologist, who has published on Conidae from Senegal [Turbonilla pini Penas & Rolan, 1997].

Lacking information about Pin in the monogenean name Trochopus pini (van Beneden & Hesse, 1863).

The scleractinian name Platygyra pini Chevalier, 1975 is likely not an eponym, but was collected at Ile des Pins (Kanak name: Kunyié), New Caledonia.

Dr. Pierre Pineau, 19??-end of the 1990s-2001, French radiologist from Dakar, shell collector and a friend of Marcel Pin (q.v.) is honoured in the gastropod names Granulina pierrepineaui Pin & Boyer, 1995 & Conus pineaui Pin & Leung-Tack, 1995.

Dr. Peter Christian Pingel, 1793-1852, Danish geologist, who achieved his PhD 1817 in Jena, and after that he (from 1829) worked at the natural history museum in København (Copenhagen), where he did research on material from mainly Greenland, much of which he collected himself [Triglops pingelii Reinhardt, 1831, Oenopota pingelii Møller, 1842].

The Chilean malacologist C. A. Pino is possibly the person honoured in the gastropod name Taringa pinoi Perrone, 1985. (Andrew Vik, Tampa, Florida kindly provided this information).

Prof. Dr. Theodor Pintner, (5 Sep. - Brünn) 1857-1942 (9 Sep. - Wien), worked on Cestoda in Wien (Vienna) during the last 2 decades of the 19:th century [Coryne pintneri Schneider, 1897].

Regarding the nudibranch name Phyllidiopsis pipeki Brunckhorst, 1993: "This species is named in honour of Mr. George Pipek, 19??-, who encouraged me in research diving and trained me to instructor level in scuba." (Dr. Gary McDonald, Santa Cruz, California kindly provided this information).

The cestodan name Phyllobothrium piriei Williams, 1968 is in honour of Mr. Stuart Pirie, 19??-, Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen.

Professor Jean-Marie Pirlot, 1???-19??, University of Liége, Belgium; published on amphipods at least between 1929-39, e.g. the report on the amphipods of the Siboga expedition, but no later publications have been found, so possibly he died during WW II? [Echinogammarus pirloti (Sexton & Spooner, 1940), Linguimaera pirloti Krapp-Schickel, 2003].

The bivalve name Botula pirriei Stilwell & Zinsmeister, 1992 may possibly be a tribute to Prof. Dr. Duncan Pirrie, 19??-, Univ. of Exeter, who is a geologist.

The mollusc name Pisania Bivona-Bernardi, 1832 is honouring the Venetian Admiral Vettor Pisani, 1324-1380 (13 Aug.).

Prof. Dr. Arthur Pisek, (10 Jan. - Blitzburg, Bozen) 1894-1975 (20 May - Innsbruck), received his doctorate in natural history under Heider (q.v.) at the University of Innsbruck (Austria). After a study of the distribution of some copepods from the Plankton-Expedition, Pisek settled on botany as his main field, and ended as Professor of Botany at Innsbruck. As a memento of Pisek's copepod work, Farran (q.v.) named a species Pleuromamma piseki in 1929. (Dr. David Damkaer kindly supplied this information).

Lacking information about Pison in the decapod name Aratus pisoni (Milne Edwards, 1837).

Mrs. Jeanne Pisor, 19??-, of San Diego, California, amateur conchologist, married to the shell dealer Donald Pisor, 19??-, of this area. They began to collect shells during the 1960s, while living in Florida, but moved to San Diego in 1970. [Favartia jeanae Bertsc & D'Attilio, 1980, Homalocantha pisori D' Attilio & S. Kosuge, 1989].

Georges Pisarro, 1871-1939, French Malacologist.

Prof. Dr. Frank Alois Pitelka, (27 Mar. - Chicago) 1916-2003 (10 Oct.), collected (while beeing a student at the Univ. of California, Berkeley) the type material of Magelona pitelkai O. Hartman, 1944 in Tomales Bay, California in 1941. PhD at U. of Cal., Berkeley in 1946. The protozoologist Dr. Dorothy Riggs Pitelka, (13 Sep. - Marsovan) 1920-1994 (6 Feb. - Sacramento, California), became his wife in 1943, 5 years before she achieved her PhD.

Charles Robert Senhouse Pitman, (19 Mar. - Bombay) 1890-1975 (18 Sep.), English / Indian Malacologist / conservationalist, who lived in Uganda between 1925-51.

William D. and Lois J. Pitt, 19??-, California, collected the type of the gastropod Mitrella loisae Pitt & Kohl, 1979.

Simon Rood Pittard, (Steinbridge, Somerset) 1821-1861, Curator of the Australian Museum.

The coral name Balanophyllia pittieri Vaughan, 1919 is likely named for the Swiss scholar (botanist, geographer and ethnologist) Dr. Henri Frençois Pittier, (13 Aug. - Bex) 1857-1950 (27 Jan. - Caracas), for whom also a national park in Venezuela is named, because he after studying such coastal areas started this park in 1937 and was renamed in his honour in 1953. He kept classifying botany in Venezuela after arriving there in 1917, but had already in 1887 left Europe for Costa Rica.

The South African Callianassid name Anacalliax pixii (Kensley, 1975) is named for Mr. Pixie John, 19??-19??, well known local figure of Port Alfred, fisherman, baitseller and beachcomber.

The polychaete name Spiraserpula plaiae Pillai & ten Hove, 1994 is honouring the polychaetologist Gayle Rene Plaia, 1951-, North Carolina, who, when working at the Florida Marine Research Institute, first observed internal tube structures characterizing the genus Spiraserpula. (Dr. Harry A. ten Hove kindly provided this information).

Plancus : (se Bianchi).

Prof. Dr. Raphael Plante, 1938-, once at Centre ORSTOM de Nosy Bé, Madagascar, later in Marseille, collected the alcyonacean host colony of the copepod Acanthomolgus plantei Humes & Stock, 1973, when scuba diving. From 1986 he has e.g. been working on Latimeria chalumnae Smith 1938 [Amphiura (Amphiura) plantei Cherbonnier & Guille, 1978].

Prof. Dr. Ludwig Hermann Plate, (16 Aug. - Bremen) 1862-1937 (16 Nov. - Jena), German zoologist, who collected e.g. polychaetes in 1893-95 along the Chilean coast and the Juan Fernández Archipelago. He was a disciple of Haeckel and achieved his PhD on Rotatoria in 1885. Later he travelled and collected in the West Indies, South America and the Red Sea. His dark side was his engagement in the Nazi party and fight against jews, who according to him was a people of "very many good accomplishments, but still more bad" and he also fought against women in academical positions [Boloceropsis platei McMurrich, 1904, Cadulus platei Jaeckel, 1932, Porcellanopagurus platei Lenz, 1902].

Lacking information about Plath in the diatom name Fallacia plathii (Brockmann, 1950) Snoeijs in Snoeijs & Balashova, 1998

Gammarus platvoeti Hou & Li was named after the amphipod researcher Dirk Platvoet, (10 Dec.) 1953-, of the Amsterdam Zoological Museum. (Prof. Wim Vader, Tromsø, kindly provided this information, which was kindly completed with date from Dr. Harry A. ten Hove, at the Museum).

Prof. Dr. Howard M. Platt, (10 June) 1947-, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, iis honoured n the nematode names Paracanthonchus platti Vadhyar, 1980 & Pterygonema platti Zhang, 1983. (Prof. Platt kindly himself provided the birth date, saying that he now has left marine nematode research and now is Chief Scientist for nature conservation in the Northern Ireland Government).

Plavmornin in the nematode name Oncholaimus plavmornini Filipjev, 1927 is not a person, but an abbreviation of Plavutshij Morskoj Nautshnyj Institut (The Naval Marine Scientific Istitute).

Lt.-Col. Sir Robert Lambert Playfair, (21 Mar. - St. Andrews) 1828-1899 (18 Feb.), published "The fishes of Zanzibar" in London in 1866.

The gastropod name Bursatella leachii pleii Rang, 1828 and the cephalopod name Loligo pleii de Blainville, 1823, may possibly be tributes to the French collector Auguste Plée, 1786-1825 (Aug. - Martinique, at age 39), who spent over five years in the Caribbean collecting for the Paris Museum.

Elwood Pleas, (19 Jan. - Hnary County, Indiana) 1809-1897 (31 Dec. - Dunreith, Indiana), US Malacologist.

Alvania nestaresi Oliverio & Amati, 1990 is named for Ignacio Nestares Pleguezelo, 19??-, shell collector from Granada, Spain who provided material.

Plehnia Bock,1913 is a replacement name for a junior homonymous genus name, originally described 1896 by Dr. Marianne Plehn, (30 Oct. - Lubacken, West Preussia) 1863-1946 (18 Jan. - Grafrath, near München), who worked in Zürich in the beginning of her career. Eventually she became an important fish pathologist [Stylochoplana plehni Bock]. Her tutor was the professor at the University of Zürich Dr. Arnold Lang, (18 June - Aargau) 1855-1914 (30 Nov.), disciple and close friend of Haeckel (q.v.), Swiss zoologist, comparative anatomist and Mendelist. Specialist on platyhelminths [Discocelides langi Bergendal,1893, Chaetogaster langi Bretscher, 1896, Achelia langi (Dohrn, 1881), Monobiceros langi Faubel, 1984]. Plehn became in 1896 the first female PhD in Zoology in Zürich. In 1898 she got a position in Veterinary Medicine in München (Munich), Germany, working there for several years and is considered together with Bruno Hofer (q.v.) to be the founder of fish pathology. Because of this she was titled 'Royal Professor' in 1914 by King Ludvig III. At the occation of her retirement she was given honorary doctoral status at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the Univ. of Munich (the first woman to receive this honour), but she continued with research for a long period after retirement and became the leader of the Bavarian Biological Experimental Institute during WWII.

Dr. Fredrik Jean-Jacques Pleijel, (17 Oct.) 1955-, polychaetologist, working on Phyllodocidae, Hesionidae and closely related families; curator at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, but working at TMBL (Tjärnö Marine Biological Laboratory) until spring 1999, when he was appointed professor at the natural history museum in Paris, from where he returned to TMBL in late 2004. He is also a spokesman for "cladistics" [Pleijelius Salazar-Vallejo & Orensanz, 2006, Sige pleijeli Blake, 1992, Adercodon pleijeli Mackie, 1994, Turbonilla pleijeli Schander, 1995, Neanthes pleijeli de León-González & Salazar-Vallejo, 2003, Proceraea pleijeli Nygren, 2004, Hilbigneris pleijeli Carrera Parra, 2006]. (Dr. Riccardo Giannuzzi-Savelli, Palermo, kindly provided the last eponym).

Lacking information about Plessiss(i) in the polyclad name Stylochus plessissii Lang, 1884 and in the hermit crab name Ciliopagurus plessisi Forest, 1995. Possibly the honoured person may be Armand Emmanuel Sophie Septemanie de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, (25 Sep. - Paris) 1766-1822 (17 May), who had left his native France for Odessa to fight in the Russian army against Napoleon and in 1817 got his name immortal in the Richelieu Lyceum in Odessa.

The calanoid name Bradyidius plinioi Campaner, 1978 is likely a tribute to Dr. Plinio Soares Moreira, (8 Aug. - São Paulo) 1932-1988 (1 Mar. - São Paulo), Brazil zoologist, who was an isopod specialist.

Gaius Plinius Secundus, (Novum Comum, now named Como) 23-79 (25 Aug. - died when trying to save people from the well-known eruption of Vesuvius and trying to find out the reason for the eurption, because he was at this time commander of the Roman navy), Roman very productive author of i.a. Naturalis Historia (in 37 volumes - of which vol. 9 deals with water animals), from which later naturalist found much inspiration. Several modern taxon names have their roots in his works. One example is Mollusca, "soft animals", because Plinius used the word Mollia for some soft members of this group, namely the cephalopods. He is also known as Plinius the Elder, because his nephew Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, 61 (or 62?)-113, who as young was adopted by the elder (brother of the younger's mother - beacuse the child's father had suddenly died) is known as Plinius the younger and also he published much, however not on natural history and his fame is mainly resting on his well written letters, which give good insight in how life in Rome was during his time. The younger Plinius was a friend of the historian Tacitus and the biographer Suetonius was employed by him.

Prof. Dr. Marcin Józef Pliński, (30 Oct. - Łebcz) 1943-, marine biologist, who has been Rector Magnificus of the Gdansk Univ., is honoured in the diatom name Pseudogomphonema plinskii Witkowski, Metzeltin & Lange-Bertalot in Metzeltin & Witkowski, 1996.

Alexander S. Plotkin, 19??-, Zoological Institute, St. Petersburg, is a young Porifera taxonomist, specialized in Polymastiidae.

Dr. Harold Henry Plough, (5 Apr. - New York City) 1892-1985, US Ascidian taxonomist, educated at Amherst College, then at Columbia Univ., where he achieved his PhD in 1917, but returning to Amherst the following year, staying there until retirement in 1959.

The W African fish names Scorpaena plumieri Bloch, 1789 and Malacanthus plumieri (Bloch, 1786) are likely tributes to Charles Plumier, (20 Apr. - Marseille) 1646-1704 (20 Nov. - Puerto de Santa Maria near Cadiz, from pleurisy), the Franciscan monk, who had studied botany in Italy and after that became a disciple of Pitton de Tournefort (q.v.), later travelled in the West Indies and made 6000 very nice drawings of herbs and i.a. named the begonia flowers after his patron, the French colonial officer Michel Bégon, (25 Dec. - Blois) 1638-1710 (14 Mar. - Rochefort), fuchsia flowers after Prof. Dr. Leonard Fuchs, (17 Jan. - Wemding, Schwaben) 1501-66 (10 May - Tübingen), of Tübingen, a physician, botanist and author, who in "Historia stirpium" made a try to systematically arrange herbs, and lobelia flowers after Dr. Matthias de l'Obel (sometimes Latinisized as Matthaeus Lobelius), (Lille, Flanders) 1538-1616 (3 Mar. - Highgate, London), a French physician and botanist from Lille (educated in Montpellier), who moved to the Netherlands and later to Britain, becoming physician in ordinary to king James I.

Pitar nancyae Lamprell & Whitehead, 1990 is honouring the late Mrs. Nancy Plumb, 19??-19??, of Yeppoon (Australia), great student on Australian bivalves. (Dr. Riccardo Giannuzzi-Savelli, Palermo, kindly provided this information).

The digenean name Otodistomum plunketi Fyfe, 1953, a parasite originally described from the South Pacific "Plunket dogfish" or "Lord Plunket's shark" (Centroscymnus plunketi (Waite, 1910)), must be tributes to Lord Sir William Lee Plunket, (19 Dec. - Dublin) 1864-1920 (24 Jan. - Elvaston Place, Gloucester), 5:th Baron Plunket of Newton, County Cork, , who was the 16:th Governor of New Zealand between 1904-1910.

Dr. Franz Poche, 1879- 1945, from Vienna, wrote two short papers on copepods in 1902 & 1906. He also worked on Coelenterata. He had a special interest in literature and bibliography, compiling a 1937 record of butterfly publications and a supplement to Sherborn's Index Animalium in 1939 (in German). He was active in the early commissions on zoological nomenclature [Pochella Hartlaub, 1917 (a synonym of Trichydra Wright, 1858)]. (Dr. David Damkaer, who kindly supplied this information, is interested in more info on Poche).

Dr. Roger Pocklington, 19??-, Canadian marine biologist / climatologist working i.a. at Bermuda.

Reginald Innes Pocock, (4 Mar. - Clifton (Bristol)) 1863-1947 (9 Aug. - London), FRS, English zoologist at London Zoological Garden (from 1904 until retirement). Before that, he had worked at the Oxford Museum and later at the Natural History Museum, London.

Edgar Allan Poe, (19 Jan. - Boston) 1809-1849 (7 Oct. - Baltimore), malacologist, much better known as a poet (e.g. "the Raven") and novelist.

Prof. Dr. Eduard Friedrich Poeppig, (16 July - Plauen) 1798-1866 (4 Sep.), German natural history traveller (botanist & zoologist) in Chile, Peru and Brazil (1826-32). After returning to Europe, he became a professor at the Univ. of Leipzig.

Prof. Félipe Poey y Aloy, (26 May - Havana) 1799-1891 (28 Jan. - Havana), Cuban naturalist, son of French and Spanish parents, who i.a. published on butterflies and fishes and foundet the Cuban Museum of Natural History in 1839 [Micratya poeyi Guérin Méneville, 1856, Cribroelphidium poeyanum (d'Orbigny, 1826), Cruriraja poeyi Bigelow & Schroeder, 1948]. He had in his youth studied law and became a lawyer in Madrid, but had to leave because of being too radical, spent some years in Paris and supplied Cuviere an Valencienne with Cuban fishes.

Lacking information about Captain Pohl in the New Zealand? gastropod name Conus pohlianus G. B. Sowerby III, 1887

Lacking information about Pointel in the gastropod name Ebala pointeli de Folin, 1868.

Nicolas Justin Poirier, 1849-1???, French naturalist, is likely honoured in the digenean name Telorchis poirieri (Stossicch, 1895) [Poirieria Jousseaume, 1880, Murex poirieri Jousseaume 1881].

Abbé Prof. Jean Louis Marie Poiret, (11 June - Saint-Quentin) 1755-1834 (7 Apr. - Paris), French naturalist and traveller, cooperator of Lamarck in Dictionnaire de botanique.

Lacking information about Poisson in the crab name Thalamita poissonii (Audouin, 1826).

Pierre-Antoine Poiteau, (23 Mar. - Ambleny) 1766-1854 (27 Feb. - Paris), French naturalist, horticulturist, painter and traveller is honoured in the red algal name Laurencia poiteaui (J.V. Lamouroux) M. Howe, 1918.

Dr. Claude Henri Poizat, 19??-, miofauna opisthobranch worker from Marseille, is honoured in the halacarid name Anomalohalacarus poizati Bartsch, 1985.

The spongiologist Nikolai Nikolaevich Poléjaeff (or Polezhaev), 1857-1???, is honoured in the sponge names Scypha polejaevi (Breitfuss, 1896), Pericharax polejaevi Breitfuss, 1896 and Polejaevia Borojevic, Boury-Esnault & Vacelet, 2000. Poléjaeff i.a. published on the Calcarea dredged by the Challenger, but seems to have stopped publishing about sponges after 1898, so possibly he died?

Josepho (Guiseppe) Xaverio (Saverio) Poli, (26 Oct. - Molfetta) 1746-1825 (7 Apr. - Napoli), at the Military Academy in Napoli (Naples) published 1791 and 1795 "Tert. utriusq. Siciliae" I & II (part III was published by Delle Chiaje in 1826 & -27) [Polinices polianus (Delle Chiaje, 1827), Holothuria polii Delle Chiaje, 1823, Anadara polii Mayer, 1868, Bolinus polii Monterosato in Coen, 1933].

The nudibranch name Glossodoris poliahu Bertsch & Gosliner, 1989 is not in honour of a living or dead person, but after one of the four Hawaiian snow goddesses, Poliahu. (Dr. Riccardo Giannuzzi-Savelli, Palermo, kindly provided this information).

Wladyslaw Karol Aleksander Polinski, 1885-1930, Polish Malacologist.

Prof. Yuri Ivanovich Poljansky (or Polyansky) 1904-1993, Russian protistologist. A protégé of Dogiel (q.v.). President in the Russian Society of Protozoologists and head of the invertebrate department in St Petersburg in 1955 after Dogiel's death. He was the son of another St Petersburg zoologist, Prof. I.I. Poljansky.

The Belgian ichthyologist Prof. Max Fernand Leon Poll, (21 July - Ruijsbroek, Belgium) 1908-1991 (13 or 14 Mar. - Bruxelles), is honoured in the following names: Pollichthys Grey, 1959, Polyipnus polli Schultz, 1961, Etmopterus polli Bigelow, Schroeder & Springer, 1953, Merluccius polli Cadenat, 1950.

Dr. François Paul Louis Pollen, 1842-1886 (May), collector of natural history objects for the Leiden Museum, especially from Madagascar. Pollen had achieved a PhD h.c. at the Univ. of Göttingen in 1875.

Dr. Leland W. Pollock, 1943-, US tardigrade researcher.

Lacking information about Polon(i) in the digenean name Prodistomum polonii (Molin, 1859).

Lacking information about Polongimaruma in the gastropod name Conus polongimarumai S. Kosuge, 1980.

Is Polylov in the amphipod name Laothoes polylovi Gurjanova, 1945 a person's name?

Lacking information about Pombo in the amphipod name Amphithoe pomboi (Mateus & Alfonso, 1974) from the Azores.

Dr. Shirley A. Pomponi, 1948-, got her PhD at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Miami, on a thesis exploring the usefulness of sponge cell morphology for the classification of Haplosclerida. In 1985 she got her present job at the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Insitution, where she is in charge of collecting marine invertebrates for the Biomedical Division [Axinella pomponiae Alvarez et al., 1998]. (Dr. Rob van Soest kindly provided this information).

Dr. Winston F. Ponder, around 1944-, malacologist (curator of Mollusca) at the Australian Museum, Sydney, born in New Zealand [Ponderia Hoaurt, 1986, Heliacus cerdaleus ponderi Garrard, 1977, Choristella ponderi McLean, 1992, Fissidentalium ponderi Lamprell & Healy, 1998, Tritonoharpa ponderi Beu & Maxwell, 1987, Oliva (Miniaceoliva) caerulea ponderi Petuch & Sargent, 1986, Powellisetia ponderi Numanami, 1996, Austrotrochaclis ponderi B.A. Marshall, 1995, Amalda (Alcospira) ponderi Ninomiya, 1991, Favartia (Caribiella) ponderi Myers & d'Attilio, 1989, Notocrater ponderi B.A. Marshall, 1986, Sassia (Sassia) ponderi Beu, 1986, Pisinna ponderi Palazzi, 1982, Echineulima ponderi Warén, 1980, Limatula (Stabilima) ponderi Fleming, 1978, Aspella ponderi Radwin & D' Attilio, 1976]. Eatoniella juliae Ponder & Yoo, 1977 and Austropyrgus juliae S.A. Clark, S.A. Miller & W.F. Ponder, 2003 are named for Mrs. Julie Ponder, who helped the authors.

John Henry Ponsonby-Fane, (22 Aug.) 1848-1916 (11 Sep.), British conchologist [Skenea ponsonbyi Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1897]. (Andrew Vik, Tampa, Florida kindly provided the full name).

Leopoldino Ribeiro Pontes, 1921-2003, Brazilian collector of marine specimens, from Rio Grande (Brazil) who provided to Museu Oceanografico do Rio Grande [Volvarina pontesi Rios & Leal, 1993]. (André Trombeta, Brazil, kindly provided the dates and middle name).

Erik Pontoppidan, (24 Aug. - Aarhus) 1698-1764 (20 Dec. - Copenhagen), bishop in Bergen, Norway, between 1747-55, very interested in natural history and publishing about it in "Forsøg paa Norges Naturlige Historie", in which creatures like Primnoa, Paragorgia, Lophelia (a good drawing), Ostrea, Homarus, bryozoans, echinoids, fishes, whales, "sea serpents" and others are described. After his education in Fredericia, Jutland, he had been a private tutor in Norway for a short time, so it was not his first experience of that country.

The isopod name Arcturella poorei Castello, 1997, Victoriasquilla poorei Ahyong, 2009, Acutiserolis poorei Brandt, 2009, Plesiomenaeus poorei A.J. Bruce, 2009, Iphimedia poorei Coleman & Lowry, 2009, Paralamprops poorei Gerken, 2009, Parelasmopus poorei Hughes, 2009, Compoceration garyi Just, 2009, Pooredoce garyi N.L. Bruce, 2009, Floresorchestia poorei Lowry & Springthorpe, 2009, Epikopais poorei Merrin, 2009 and Gorepagurus poorei Lemaitre & McLaughlin, 2003 are a few of more than 24 species names honouring Dr. Gary C.B. Poore, 1944-, Senior Curator, Crustacea, Museum Victoria, Melbourne, Australia. Although predominantly a peracarid worker, he has also been involved in an important work on Thalassinidea. The amphipod name Linguimaera garitima Krapp-Schickel, 2003 is honouring both him and his colleague at the museum Dr. Tim O'Hara, 19??-.

Lacking information about Roy Poorman, 19??-, who worked together with Forest Poorman, (28 Sep.) 1894?-1969?, (his relative?) in the gastropod names Conus poormani Berry, 1968 and Favartia poormani Radwin & D'Attilio, 1976. Possibly he may be identical to Leroy Poorman, who was president of the Pacific Shell Club during the 1960s.

Elizabeth Carington Pope, (4 Nov. - Nelson, New Zealand) 1912-1993 (18 Sep.), zoologist at the Australian Museum, curator of worms and echinoderms, who also devoted some of her research to cirripedes [Hexaminius popeiana Foster, 1982].

Lacking information about Popovic in the chaetognath name Parasagitta popovicii (Sund, 1961).

Guido T. Poppe, 1954-, well-known Belgian conchologist and author of about 20 books on shells, as well as describer of (so far) around 183 species within mainly Volutidae and Trochidae. Adventurer and vice-president of Conchology, Inc. Moved to the Philippines in 2003 and has initiated a web page with lots of images of marine creatures from that area: http://www.poppe-images.com. [Angaria poppei Monsecour & Monsecour, 1999, Bayritrochus poppei Anseeuw, 2003, Calliostoma poppei Vilvens, 2000, Conus guidopoppei Raybaudi, 2005, Conus poppei Elsen, 1983, Vexillum poppei de Suduiraut, 2007, Cypraea caputdraconis poppei Martin, 1989, Gibberula poppei Cossignani, 2001, Eosipho poppei Fraussen, 2001, Euthria poppei Fraussen, 1999, Fusinus guidonis Delsaerdt, 1995, Granulifusus poppei Delsaerdt, 1995, Ischnochiton poppei P. Kaas & R. A. Van Belle, 1994, Jujubinus poppei Curini-Galletti, 1985, Lopha poppei Bozzetti, 1996, Crenavolva guidoi Fehse, 2002, Lyria poppei Bail, 2002, Marginella poppei Boyer & Neefs, 1999, Mitra poppei Guillot du Suduiraut, 2000, Murex poppei Houart, 1979, Olivella poppei Bozzetti, 1998, Oliva poppei Sargent & Petuch, 2008, Ovula poppei Fehse, Phenacovolva poppei Fehse, 2000, Poireiria poppei Houart, 1993, Strombus guidoi Man in't Veld & De Turck, 1998, Tegula poppei Lan, 1991, Terebra poppei Terryn, 2004, Tritonoturris poppei Vera-Pelaez, Vega-Luz, 2000, Tonna poppei Vos, 2005, Trivia poppei Fehse, 1998, Lyrula poppei Bail, 2002]. (So far there are around 25 poppei species of shells around and a few guidoi). His son Philippe Poppe, 1977-, also Belgian, is president of Conchology, Inc., Mactan Island, the Philippines and marine photographer is honoired in Euthria philpoppei Fraussen, 2003 and his father named the trochids Calliostoma philippei Poppe, 2004 and Calliotropis philippei Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006 after him. Also Granulina philpoppei Cossignani Tiziano, 2006 is in honour of him. Together father and son also are publishers of a shell magazine: Visaya. G. Poppe's mother Maria Peyskens, 19??-, Belgium, is honoured in Calliostoma mariae  Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006.

S. A. Poppe : (see Huntemann).

Lacking information about Poppelack in the gastropod name Lindapterys poppelacki (Hornes, 1853).

Prof. Dr. Francis Dov Por, 1927-, Romanian-born Israeli copepodologist, Professor of Zoology at the Hebrew University. At least nine species of copepod bear his name: Leptopontia dovpori Huys & Conroy-Dalton, 1996, Leptocaris pori Lang, 1965, Metahuntemannia dovpori Bodin, 1967, Parathalestris dovi Marcus, 1966, Afrolaophonte pori Masry, 1970, Tisbe pori Betouhim-El et Kahan, 1972 & Eurycletodes (Oligocletodes) pori Drzycimski, 1969, Brianola pori Hamond, 1973, Pontostratiotes pori Dinet, 1978, as does the harpacticoid genus Poria Lang, 1965, the tanaid species Anuropoda francispori Bacescu, 1980, the polychaete species Levidorum pori (Ben-Eliahu, 1977) and the ostracod species Cytherella pori Lerner-Seggev, 1964. (Dr. David Damkaer kindly supplied this information).

The diatom name Proschkinia poretzkajae (Korotkevich) D.G. Mann in Round & al., 1990 must be a tribute to the Russian diatom taxonomist V. S. Sheshukova-Poretzkaja, 19??-,.

The gastropod name Discodoris porri Vérany, 1846 is likely not in honour of a person's name, but perhaps a toponym for Isola dei Porri (Sardinia)?

Mr. Roger W. Portell, (5 Sep.) 1957-, palaeontologist at the Florida Mus. of Nat. Hist. [Cypraea portelli E.J. Petuch, 1990].

Prof. Dr. Carlos Emilio Porter Mosso, (20 Aug. - Valparaiso) 1867-1942 (13 Dec. - Santiago), Chilenian invertebrate zoologist, founded in 1897 in Valparasio "la Revista Chilena de Historia Natural" and was working there 1897-1906 and at the museum in Santiago 1911-28 and became essential for collections of insects and decapod crustaceans in Chile [Cancer porteri Rathbun, 1930, Hyppolysmata porteri Rathbun, 1907].

Captain George D. Porter, 18??-1896 (killed by Seri Indians while shell collecting), collected the types of Cerithiopsis porteri Hanna & Strong, 1938 [likely Odostomia porteri Baker, Hanna & Strong, 1928].

Porter in the nudibranch name Glossodoris porterae (Cockerell, 1902) : (see Cockerell).

Mr. Joseph A. Porter, 1???-, of Zamboanga City, Philippines, found the holotype of Lyncina porteri (Cate, 1966).

Calthalotia porteri Iredale, 1940 was named for Dr. R.H. Porter, 1???-19??, shell collector (Australia?).

The cephalopod name Joubiniteuthis portieri (Joubin, 1916), the octocoral name Sinularia portieri Verseveldt, 1980 and the red algal name Portieria must be a tribute to Dr. Paul Portier, (22 May - Bar-sur-Seine) 1866-1962 (26 Jan. - Bourg-la-Reine), French entomologist and researcher on digestive symbiosis. He was a good friend and sea-going companion of Jules Richard (q.v.). Both men were principals on the cruises of Prince Albert I of Monaco (q.v. - under Grimaldi). Portier was a member of the Academy of Medicine, a professor at the University of Paris (Sorbonne), and a professor at the Institute of Oceanography (Paris). Portier's youthful interests were in entomology, in which he had a life-long connection. He was a member of the Entomological Society of France from 1888 (there is a short biography in their 1962 Bulletin 67:8-9). After some academic excursions into botany and medicine, Portier settled into physiology. Through his associates, he met Prince Albert and was one of his most faithful cruise-companions and collaborators. His studies of Physalia toxins led to the discovery and naming of anaphylaxis, the hypersensitivity of some individual organisms after repeated exposures to foreign substances. Unlike warfare, oceanography has had few deathless phrases. One has come down from Portier. During a particularly dangerous situation off Spitsbergen, the Prince was considering having all personnel but himself abandon ship. Portier said, "Your Highness, I prefer to die warm on board the ship than to live cold on the iceberg." (Dr. D. Damkaer kindly provided this information).

Margaret Cavendish Holles Bentinck (neé Harley), 2:nd duchess of Portland, (11 Feb. - Welbeck Abbey) 1715-1785 (17 July - Bulstrode Park, Buckinghamshire), who lived in the mansion Bulstrode in Buckinghamshire and was a passionate collector of natural history objects, worked for women's rights and corresponded with Jean-Jacques Rousseau and was the richest woman of the British Isles during her life time [Portlandia Mørch, 1857].

The Swiss zoologist Prof. Adolf Portmann, (27 May - Basel) 1897-1982 (28 June - Binningen), who i.a. worked on Mediterranean nudibranchs, is honoured in the hydroid name Staurocladia portmanni Brinckmann, 1964 and in the gastropod name Geitodoris portmanni Schmekel, 1972.

Henrik Julian Posselt, (16 Feb. - Østofte, Lolland) 1863-1896 (20 July - Ed, Sweden), Danish zoologist at the Zoological & Mineralogical Museums; one of Steenstrup's disciples.

Eustomias posti Gibbs, Clark & Gomon, 1983 is named for Dr. Alfred Post, 1936-, German ichtyologist.

Lacking information about E. Postel, 19??-, who in 1964 published (in French) on Palinura from African tropical waters, in the decapod name Scyllarus posteli Forest, 1963 and the stomatopod name Manningia posteli Manning, 1977.

Alexandr Filippovich Postels, (24 Aug.) 1801-1871 (28 June), was onboard as minerologist and published during the 1830s on the results of the Russian circumnavigation in 1826-29 with the corvette "Séniavine" led by Litke (see Mertens) to the Aleutian Islands and Sitka Alaska. During this and subsequent voyages, Postels collaborated with the Austrian-born naturalist and physician Franz Joseph Ruprecht, (1 Nov. - Freiburg im Breisgau) 1814-1870 (4 Apr. - St. Petersburg), to describe and classify many algae of the NE Pacific. The "sea palm" kelp is named Postelsia palmaeformis Ruprecht, 1852. Soon after the circumnavigation Postels was appointed adjunct professor of mineralogy and geognosy at the St. Petersburg Univ. and Ruprecht became Prof. of botany at the same university [Cyanea postelsi Brandt, 1838] (Dr. Rick Harbo, Canada, kindly provided some of this information).

Dr. N. Postma, 1901-1986, Dutch Malacologist.

The gastropod name Cronia pothuanii Eydoux & F. L. A. Souleyet, 1852, may likely be a tribute to the French Admiral Louis P.A. Pothuan, 1815-1882, who i.a. fought in Crimea.

Dr. Herbert E. Potswald, 19??-, Univ. of Massachusetts, who published on i.a. Spirorbidae from Woods Hole between 1967-77, is honoured in the polychaete name Pileolaria (Simplicaria) potswaldi Knight-Jones, 1978.

Mr. Darryl Potter, 19??-, of the Malacological Section of the Queensland Museum [Dentalium potteri Lamprell & Healey, 1998, Pitar (Pitarina) potteri Lamprell & Healy, 1992].

Mr. Frederick A. Potter, 1874-1961, the first director of Waikiki Aquarium between 1903-40 [Centropyge potteri (Jordan & Metz, 1912)].

Frank Armitage Potts, 1882-1937, published a paper on Sacculina induced changes in shore crabs in 1909 and a paper on Pacific Chaetopteridae in 1914 and together with Borradaile (q.v.) an invertebrate manual in 1935 [Pottsia Høeg & Lützen, 1993, Spiochaetopterus costarum pottsi (E. Berkeley, 1927), Leucothoides pottsi Shoemaker, 1933, Palaemonella pottsi (Borradaile, 1915)].

Prof. Félix Archimède Pouchet, (26 Aug. - Rouen) 1800-1872 (6 Dec. - Rouen), French professor in Rouen, working on botany as well as zoology, well-known for his theory about abiogenesis of microorganisms and his fight against Louis Pasteur's ideas.

Prof. Dr. Charles Henri Georges Pouchet, (26 Feb. - Rouen) 1833-1894 (30 Mar. - Paris), Professor of Comparative Anatomy at the National Museum of Natural History (Paris) and Director of the Maritime Laboratory at Concarneau. He began this interest as an assistant to his father (Félix Archimède - see above) who was the director of the museum at Rouen. G. Pouchet's publications ranged over pisciculture in France, embryology, dinoflagellates, coelenterates, copepods, cirripedes, marine turtles, whales and their parasites, and anthropology. Pouchet had a special interest in the currents of the North Atlantic in collaboration with Prince Albert of Monaco (q.v. under Grimaldi). Pouchet was on his way to an exploration of Kerguelen when he died of injuries. The copepod Lichomolgus poucheti Canu, 1892 honors him. [Oodinium pouchetii (Lemmermann,1899), Paradinium poucheti Chatton,1910, Phaeocystis pouchetii (Hariot, in Pouchet,1892) Lagerheim 1893, Zygomolgus poucheti (Canu, 1891), Copidognathus poucheti (Trouessart, 1893), Urothoe poucheti Chevreux, 1888, Alvania poucheti Dautzenberg, 1889]. (Dr. David Damkaer kindly contributed this information).

Louis Pieter Pouderoyen, 1902-1977, Dutch artist and Malacologist.

Dr. Erik Mellentin Poulsen, (14 July) 1900-1985 (12 Jan.), Danish fishery biologist, who also worked - chiefly during his last active decades - with some "lower" crustaceans, mainly the ostracod taxon Myodocopoda [Macrocypridina poulseni].

Lacking information about Poulson in the Californian gastropod name Ocenebra poulsoni (Carpenter, 1864).

Dr. Joseph Poupin, 1957-, of France ( currently working at French Navy School, Brest. He is a research associate at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, and is specialized in systematics of tropical Decapoda, mainly those from French Polynesian Islands where he has made a lot of collections), is honoured in the shrimp name Periclimenes poupini A.J. Bruce, 1992 [Plesionika poupini Chan & Crosnier, 1997, Garthambrus poupini (Garth 1993), Strigopagurus poupini Forest, 1995, Sympagurus poupini R. Lemaitre, 1994, Chaceon poupini Manning, 1993, Nassarius (Zeuxis) poupini Cernohorsky, 1992]. (Dr. A.J. Bruce kindly supplied this information).

Count Louis François de Pourtalès, (4 Mar. - Neuchâtel) 1824-1880 (19 July - Beverly Farms, Massachusetts), followed his teacher Louis Agassiz (q.v.) from Switzerland to America, where he studied deep sea fauna in the Gulf Stream area [Atelecrinus pourtalesi Clark, 1907, Haliotis pourtalesi Dall, 1881, Ulophysema pourtalesiae Brattström, 1937, Pourtalesia A. Agassiz, 1869, Psolus pourtalesii Théel, 1886, Bathyplotes pourtalesii (Théel, 1886), Acanthoptilum pourtalesii Kölliker, 1870, Pourtalosmilia Duncan, 1884, Solariella pourtalesi Clench & Aguayo, 1939, Haliotis pourtalesi Dall, 1881, Epitonium pourtalesii (Verrill & Bush, 1880), Mangelia pourtalesii (Dall, 1881), Propeamussium pourtalesianum (Dall, 1886), Nectoteuthis pourtalise Verrill, 1883, Deltocyathus pourtalesi Cairns, 1979, Endopsammia pourtalesi (Durham & Barnard, 1952), Errinopora pourtalesii (Dall, 1884), Lepidotheca pourtalesi Cairns, 1986]. (Andrew Vik, Tampa, Florida kindly provided the middle name).

Dr. Arthur William Baden Powell, (4 Apr. - Wellington) 1901-1987 (1 July - Auckland), New Zealand malacologist, who collected one of largest and most comprehensive mollusc collections in the southern hemisphere. As young he had achieved some illustration education and was a good illustrator as well. It is said that he could be a bit shy among strangers, but a strong personality among friends. [Paracomitas powelli Dell, 1956, Amauropsis powelli Dell, 1990, Leucosyrinx bandenpowelli Dell, 1990, Splendrillia powelli Wells, 1990, Falsilunatia powelli Dell, 1956 likely Holspitotheres powelli Manning, 1993, likely Kurtziella powelli Shasky, 1971, Yoldiella powelli Dell, 1950, Cerithiopsis powelli B. A. Marshall, 1978, Brookula powelli Clarke, 1961].

Lacking information about Powell in the Indian Ocean skate Okamejei powelli (Alcock, 1898).

The diatom name Oestrupia powellii (Lewis) Heiden in A. Schmidt Atlas must be honouring either Henry Thomas Powell, 1925-, or William Nottingham Powell, 1904-, both algal researchers.

Lacking information about Power, in the lightfish name Vinciguerria poweriae (Cocco, 1838), if at all a person's name. Bonaparte 1840 created the genus name Poweria for it, but that is now considered as a synonym of Vinciguerria Jordan & Evermann in Goode & Bean, 1896, in which genus Witzell 1973 placed it. (Monterosato 1884 reused the name Poweria for a gastropod, but this name is of course a younger homnym).

Powhatan in the gastropod name Turbonilla powhatani Henderson & Bartsch, 1914 is likely not a person's name but the name of an algonquian "indian" tribe in North America.

The gastropod name Ocenebra empowlusi Abbott, 1954 is named for Marland Eckley Powlus, Apr. - Bloomsburg, Columbia County, PA) 1909-80 (Mar. - Port St. Joe, FL..). His niece Barbara Powlus Hays has kindly provided the following information: The childhood was chaotic. His father worked on the railroad which necessitated often changing location. Unfortunately, the marriage soured, and physical abuse caused my grandmother to divorce and thus ended the family circle. My grandmother moved to New Jersey with the boys to protect them and her from the father. She then raised the boys on her own supporting them from her luncheonette business on the boardwalk in Wildwood, New Jersey. Uncle Eckley was very creative and talented . He engaged in singing and drawing. He first made his living by doing charcoal sketches of people at the beach in Wildwood, NJ and singing in public places. Neither his daughter nor I know for sure, but we both suspect that he did not complete high school. My father did not either and he was the more intellectual of the two. Uncle Eckley married and shortly thereafter children came along. Uncle Eckley's free bohemian spirit and wanderlust would not let him stay in one place very long. If I were to compare him to some notable character it would be Ernest Hemingway. His charismatic personality endeared him to all in spite of obvious faults. It was his habit to pick up stakes and move southward get settled and then send for the family. At one time he worked at making mirrors. This pattern continued until he got to Florida approximately 1941 with five children and another born soon after his arrival there. He took a job in the shipyard, but such occupations could not hold him. Since he could no longer continue his southward pilgrimage on land, he took to the water which suited his restless spirit. He teamed up with a Dan Seiger who was a deep sea fisherman and shell collector. The shells they obtained appealed to my uncle's creative side and he acquired a large and varied collection. Certain folks interested in rare shells evaluated his collection and discovered that a shell of a certain type of deep sea murex was previously unidentified. At some future time parts of the collection found its way into other hands. His daughter mentioned both Ringling Bros Circus and the Smithsonian. A gentleman in St. Petersburg owns a copy of Abbott's book published in 1954 where the name is given to the gastropod. I am in contact with him. He is looking up the information in the book and I will speak with him again to see if there is more information to add. Uncle Eckley also engaged in shrimp fishing and spent the rest of his years working in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean going as far South as Honduras. When he finally put the boat into the dock for good he took up residence on his daughter's property and ended his days in Port St. Joe FL..

Lacking data about the British Lord William Lyttleton Powys, Baron Lilford. He does not seem to have existed (see Baron Lilford) [Mangelia powisiana (Dautzenberg, 1887), possibly Polinices powisianus Récluz, 1844]. Likely the name William is a misunderstanding and the names are in honour of the landowner and ornithologist Thomas Lyttelton Powys, 4:th Baron Lilford, (18 Mar.) 1833-1896 (17 June), instead or the second name may have been a tribute to his father Thomas Atherton Powys, 3:rd Baron Lilford, (2 Dec.) 1801-1861 (15 Mar.).

Praeger : (see Southern).

Henry von Prahl, (4 Feb. - close to München) 1948-1989 (27 Nov. - between Bogota & Cali), decapod researcher, who was killed by a bomb exploding in an airliner. He followed his parents, when they emigrated to Colombia in 1953.

The gastropod name Conus pramparti Da Motta & Röckel, 1979 may possibly be a tribute to A. Prampart, 19??-,.

Tectidrilus pranzoi Erséus, 1987 is named for Mr. Alfredo Pranzo, 19??-, "who assisted most valuablly during the field trip to Sardinia".

Dr. Baini Prashad, (13 Mar.) 1894-1969 (18 Jan. - date of decease becomes clear after reading this document: http://www.indiankanoon.org/doc/1958700/ about the will of his widow), Director of the Zoological Survey of India, published on "gephyreans" from Indian waters from 1919 at least until the late 1930s and is honoured in the echiuran genus name Prashadus Stephen & Edmonds, 1972, the shrimp name Caridina prashadi Tiwari & Pillai, 1971 and in the cephalopod names Octopus prashadi Adam, 1939 and Sepia prashadi Winckworth, 1936. (Andrew Vik, Tampa, Florida kindly provided the first name).

The natantian name Synalpheus paraneomeris praslini Coutiere, 1921 is not named directly after a person, but from the Isle de Praslin in the Seychelles. This island was named Isle de Palmes by explorer Lazare Picault in 1744, but during that time it was used as a hidaway by pirates and Arabic merchants. In 1768 it was renamed Praslin in honor of French diplomat César Gabriel de Choiseul, duc de Praslin, (15 Aug.) 1712-1785 (15 Nov.). (Dr. A.J. Bruce, Australia, kindly provided this information).

Prof. Dr. Ivan Pratt, (18 Sep.) 1908-1973 (14 Apr.), Oregon State University, Corvallis, published on e.g. trematodes [Theristus pratti Murphy & Canaris, 1964, Calliopiella pratti J.L. Barnard, 1954].

Henry Sherring Pratt, (18 Aug. - Toledo, Ohio) 1859-19??, US zoologist / parasitologist, who published on most animals, but usually excluded insects and birds and kept publishing at least until 1935. Miss Anne Pratt, (5 Dec. - Strood, Kent) 1806-1893 (Shepherd's Bush, London), British botanist and publisher of "Things of the Sea-coast" during the mid 19:th century, is a namesake like the professional animal collector Antwerp Edgar Pratt, 1853?-1924? (was buried 8 Jan. that year at Teddington Cemetary after dying at age 70), in Isle of Wight, who collected animals (and plants) in China, New Guinea and South America before selling them. He was the father of H.S. Pratt and Felix Pratt, honoured in a lepidopteran name prattorum, together with the father,

The British (Cambridge?) zoologist Edith Mary Pratt Musgrave, 18??-19??, married Musgrave in 1909, worked on Octocorallia, polychaeta and bipolarity during the 1890s and the first decade of the 20:th century and is honoured in the names Cladiella prattae Tixier-Durivault, 1944 & Sinularia prattae Verseveldt, 1974.

Dr. Johann August Ludwig Preiss, (21 Nov. - Herzberg am Harz) 1811-1883 (21 May - Herzberg am Harz), was a German plant collector, who i.a. collected huge amounts of algae in Western Australia, between 1838-42. He is remembered in the red algal name Acrothamnion preissii (Sonder) Wollaston.

Prof. Dr. Eugène Marcel Prenant, (15 Jan. - Champigneulles) 1893-1983 (15 July - Paris), French bryozoologist. Professor at Sorbonne [Prenantia Gautier, 1962, Cercaria prenanti Arvy, 1949, Bolteniopsis prenanti Harant, 1927, Bugula prenanti Castric-Fey, 1971, Tracheloraphis prenanti Dragesco, 1960]. However Rajonchocotyle prenanti (Saint Remy, 1890) is of course too early for honouring him and is likely a tribute to his father and older namesake Prof. Dr. Louis Auguste Prenant, (5 Nov. - Lyon) 1861-1927 (Paris), who published Traité d'histologie, a reference for cell biology. He was professor in Nancy together with Pol Bouin (q.v.), who succeded him when he in 1908 left for a professorship in Paris. Marcel was active politically as a militant communist and took part in WWII as an active anti-fascist, but was captured by Gestapo in 1944 and was deported to the Neuengamme Camp and witnessed in Hamburg after the war about the cruelties in this camp.

Prof. Aleksandr Romulovitch Prendel, 1888-1969, marine scientist honoured in the copepod name Oncaea prendeli Shmeleva, 1966. He was working at the hydrobiological station in Odessa.

Prof. Carl Borivoj (Karel Bořivoj) Presl, (17 Feb. - Prague) 1794-1852 (2 Oct. - Prague), Museum Custodian and Professor, and his brother Jan Svatopluk Presl, (4 Sep.) 1791-1849 (6 Apr.), Professor of Zoology and Mineralogy, worked in Prague as naturalists. Preslia - The Journal of the Czech Botanical Society is named for them.

The gastropod name Granoturris presleyi Lyons, 1972 is a tribute to Robert F. Presley, 19??-, St. Petersburg, Florida, a zoologist, who took part in the Hourglass cruises in the Gulf of Mexico 1965-67, possibly identical to a cousin of a well known music artist.

The bone-eating siboglinid Osedax frankpressi Rouse, Goffredi & Vrijenhoek, 2004 is honouring Dr. Frank Press, (4 Dec. - Brooklyn, New York) 1924-, (PhD at Columbia Univ. in 1949) former U.S. presidential science advisor, president of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and chair of MBARI Board of Directors, "for his distinguished service to science".

Looking for information about Nicolò Prestandrea, 1???-18?? (still living in 1843 and as it seems also in 1850), chemist / pharmacist from Messina, who in 1833 published a Sicilian paper, in which some essential marine crustacean genera were described. Together with Cocco (q.v.) he also used the botanical garden which Francesco and Antonino Arrosto had created in Messina for botanical education as part of the courses of the "Accademia Carolina" [Euchaeta prestandreae Philippi, 1843]. His nephew, the botanist Antonio Prestandrea, 1817-1854, from Catania, Sicily, was a member of "Accademia dei Periculanti"; - whether their danger was Etna or something quite different is not known to the compiler.A "Memorio di Nicolò Prestandrea" was published in Palermo in 1883 so he must have died before (possibly long before) that year.

Hugh Berthon Preston, (London) 1871-1945 (4 Feb. - Ireland), British Malacologist working in East Africa. He had been a tea planter in Ceylon, before becoming a professional malacologist.

Jean Louis Prevost, (1 Sep. - Geneva) 1790-1850 (14 Mar. - Geneva), French-Swiss physiologist / embryologist [Hyale prevostii Milne Edwards, 1830].

Aglaothamnion priceanum Maggs, Guiry & Rueness, 1991 is named for the British phycologist and plant collector James Henry Price, 1932-2007,.

Dr. Emmett William Price, 1896-1965, US parasitologist [possibly Coryphella pricei MacFarland, 1966].

Miss Sadie F. Price, 1849-1903, US Malacologist and plant collector.

Lacking information about Price in the cephalopod name Octopus pricei (Berry, 1913).

Charles Prideaux, (2 Jan. - the 'Vine House' - Kingsbridge) 1782-1869 (!9 July - Kingsbridge), one of W.E. Leach's (q.v.) friends (& his second-cousin, - Charles Prideaux's grandmother being sister of W.E. Leach's maternal grandmother), who collected many specimens for him, especially from Plymouth Sound. Not much is known about Prideaux, except that he came from a family of quakers (became interred in the Friends' burying-ground, at Kingsbridge) and - like Leach - came from an ancient Devon family including several lawyers in the Plymouth area, all descendants of Paganus de Prideaux, who came over from Normandie with William the Conqueror. His parents were George 1744-1815, and Anna (née Debell Cookworthy) Prideaux, 1751-1836, who got 10 known children: George Cookworthy, 1775-1841, Philip Cookworthy, 1776-1842, William Prideaux, 1778-1843, Walter Prideaux, 1779-1832, Charles, Anna Prideaux, 1784-1861, Sarah, 1786- (married Robert Philip Fox in 1812), Rachel 1787-, (daed in infancy), Dorothy Cockworthy, 1790- (married Samuel Tregelles in 1812), Rachel Cookworthy, 1792- (married Robert Were Fox in 1815).. He was evidently not a lawyer himself, but together with his brother William he had become involved in a company selling clean drugs and chemicals for medical purposes to physicians and surgeons - Cookworthy, Fox, Prideaux and Balkwill, so during spare time he could cultivete his interest in natural history and collected i.a. birds, but his main interest was marine biology. He lived in Kingsbridge, SE of Plymouth at about the same time as Montagu (q.v.) did, and Leach may perhaps have met Montagu through Prideaux, who had become a friend of Montagu earlier. Prideaux helped Leach arrange the British shells in the Museum at the end of 1816 and Leach took specimens from Prideaux's collection for the museum. Leach described Prideaux in a letter to Alexander MacLeay (Secretary of the Linnean Society) as,"decidedly [Britain's] best conchologist as far as relates to the knowledge of the species.". Prideaux spent several years in Plymouth in the beginning of his life, but then moved back to his home town and was a F.L.S. for upwards half a century, but became confined to his bed for several years during the last part of his life, through illness and infirmity, although his intellect remained bright to the last. [Pagurus prideaux Leach, 1815, Sphaeroma prideauxianum Leach, 1818, Hippolyte prideuxiana Leach, 1817, Rhomboidella prideauxi (Leach, 1815), Solamen prideauxi Leach, 1815, Athelges prideauxi Giard & Bonnier, 1890 (the last, however, named for parasiting P. prideaux )]. (Dr. Keith Harrison at the Univ. of Leeds kindly provided some of this information).

The digenean name Prodistomum priedei Bray & Merrett, 1998 is a tribute to Professor Imants (Monty) G. Priede, 19??-, ichthyologist, OceanLab, University of Aberdeen, Scotland [Pachycara priedei Møller & King, 2007 (Zoarcidae)]. (Dr. Rod Bray kindly provided this information).

Leunis de Priester, (6 Feb.) 1880-1968 (18 Sep.), Dutch Malacologist.

Priestley in the gastropod name Trophon priestleyi Ch. Hedley, 1911 : (see the Terra Nova expedition, 1910-).

Lacking information about Sr. Prieto in the gastropod names Natica prietoi J. Hidalgo, 1873 (collected by Prieto at Menorca) and Eubranchus prietoi Llera & Ortea, 1981, but considering the time lapse between the two names, likely two different persons may be honoured.

Temple Prime, (14 Sep.) 1832-1903 (25 Feb.), US geneaologist and Malacologist in the New York area.

Prof. Edward Ernest Prince, (23 May - Leeds, England) 1858-1936 (10 Oct.), Canadian fisheries biologist, who had been a disciple of W.C. M'Intosh (q.v.) at St. Andrews Univ.

Professor Nathanael Pringsheim, (30 Nov.) 1823-1894 (6 Oct.), important German (marine) botanist [Pringsheimia Reinke, Pringsheimiella Höhnel, 1920]. One of his relatives, Professor Ernst Georg Pringsheim, (26 Oct. - Breslau) 1881-1970 (26 Dec. - Hannover), also became a well-known phycologist and protistologist [Chrysochromulina pringsheimii Parke & Manton, 1962].

Odostomia prinsi Van Aartsen, Gittenberger & Goud, 1998 was named for B. Prins, 19??-, member of the former Dutch mollusca working group. A Malacological namesake was another Dutch, J. Prins, 1???-19??, who died in 1940 or one or a few years before.

Printz : (see Foslie).

Lacking information about Prinz in the nematod name Cyatholaimus prinzi (Marion, 1870) Inglis, 1961.

Ottavio Priolo, 1890-1973, Italian Malacologist.

C.L.C.M. Priser, 19??-, "Commandant le N.O. "Jean Charcot"", is honoured in the isopod name Janirella priseri Chardy, 1972.

Andrew Pritchard, 1804-1882, British optician (until 1852, when he retired from fabrication of spectacles, microscopes, etc.) and ciliate researcher.

Prof. Mary Lou Hanson Pritchard, 1924-, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, parasitologist [Steringophorus pritchardae (Campbell, 1975)]. A namesake is Eric Daniel Pritchard, (22 Apr. - Onehunga) 1904-1997 (17 May - Auckland), New Zealand parasitologist / entomologist.

Bostrycapulus pritzkeri Collin, 2005 is in honour of Robert Alan Pritzker, (30 June - Chicago) 1926-, a member of the whealthy Chicago Pritzker dynasty and president of the Pritzker Foundation, that support marine resaerchs of the Field Museum. (Riccardo Giannuzzi-Savelli, Palermo kindly provided this information).

Dr. Sandro Privitera, 19??-, geologist / malacologist from Catania.

Lacking information about Proho in the holothurioid name Paroriza prohoi Hérouard, 1902. See also Prouho (below). Hérouard's name may likely be an odd spelling honouring the same person.

The cephalopod name Bathypolypus arcticus proschi Muus, 1962 is likely honouring the Danish physician and veterinarian Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Victor Alphons Prosch, (25 Nov. - København) 1820-1885 (29 July), prosector at the Museum of Zootomy, Copenhagen.

Anastasia Ivanovna Pros(c)hkina-Lavrenko, 1891-1977, Russian algologist, working on diatoms [Thalassiosira proschkinae Makarova 1979, Proschkinia N.I. Karayeva].

The sponge name Myxxilla prouhoi (Topsent, 1892) must honour Dr. Henri Prouho, (12 Feb. - Rabastens) 1854-1921 (25 May), French biologist, who defended his PhD in 1888 on the echinoid Cidaris cidaris (at that time named Dorocidaris papillata) from the Mediterranean Sea, when working at the Laboratoire Arago, Banyuls. Also Prouho's membrane in cidaroids is honouring his name. Dr. John M. Lawrence has translated Prouho's work on Cidaris to English. When reading his article, one can see that he was very careful and accurate.

Abbé Léon Abel Provancher, (10 Mar. - Bécancour, Quebec) 1820-1892 (23 Mar. - Cap-Rouge, Quebec), Canadian Malacologist.

Dr. Anthony J. Provenzano Jr., 19??-, Institute of Marine Science, University of Miami (later Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia), is honoured in the pagurid name Pagurus provenzanoi Forest & de Saint Laurent, 1967.

Stanislaus Josef Mathias von Prowazek - Edler von Lanow, (12 Nov. - Jindřichův Hradec, Bohemia) 1875-1915 (17 Feb. - Cottbus), worked on anatomy and development of vertebrates, collembols, sperm, etc. in Wien (Vienna), but is most known for detecting the pathogen of epidemic typhus together with the Brazilian physician Dr. Henrique da Rocha Lima, 1879-1956, and was infected by the pathogen (named Rickettsia prowazekii da Rocha Lima, 1916) when working in a German prison and died soon after this. [Mesochra prowazeki Douwe, 1907].

Dr. Stephen Prudhoe, (London) 1911-1992, British polyclad specialist [Prudhoeus Bray & Gibson,1980, Chimaerocestos prudhoei Williams & Bray, 1984, Pseudoceros prudhoei Newman & Cannon, 1994].

Prof. Dr. Georges Florentin Pruvot, (11 Apr. - Saint-Armand-Montrond) 1852-1924 (15 Oct. - Paris), French zoologist, who became MD in 1882, after which he moved to Roscoff, where he studied polychaetes and in 1885 he became a Dr. of Science as well, working in Paris until 1892, when he became a teacher in Grenoble, Professor there the following year. In 1898 he was back in Paris and in 1900 he he became director of the station at Banyuls-sur-Mer. He married Alice Fol (see below). [Cliona pruvoti Topsent, 1900, Scyphophyllidium pruvoti (Guiart, 1934), Leptopsammia pruvoti Lacaze-Duthiers, 1897, Stylactis pruvoti (Motz-Kossowska, 1905), Ectinosoma pruvoti Soyer, 1972, Amathia pruvoti Calvet, 1911, Vanneaugobius pruvoti (Fage, 1907), Pararrhopalia pruvoti Simroth, 1893, Pruvotia Thiele, 1894].

Alice Pruvot-Fol, (4 Aug. - Saint-Aignan (Loir-et-Cher)) 1873-1972 (28 Mar. - Paris), French opisthobranch malacologist (née Fol). Was she related to Hermann Fol (q.v.)? She was married to the 21 years older George Pruvot (above). [Hallaxa apefae Marcus & Marcus (apef: cf. A.Pe.F.), Pruvotfolia Tardy, 1970, Pruvotaplysia Engel, 1936, Aegires pruvotfolae Fahey & Gosliner, 2004, Elysia pruvotfolae Ernst Marcus, 1957].

Jean-Jacques Puisségur, 1917-1994, French Malacologist.

Gustavo Pulitzer-Finali, 1905-2006 (Nov.), Italian spongiologist in Portofino, working together with Sará (q.v.) and other colleagues in Genoa, but retireing before 2000.

Dr. Thomas Edward Pulley, (15 Oct.) 1916-1985 (19 Nov.), Houston Museum of Natural Science, who has published on the marine mollusc fauna of Texas, is honoured in the bivalve name Macoma pulleyi Boyer, 1969.

Dr. Richard Pulteney, (17 Feb. - Loughborough, county of Leicester) 1730-1801 (13 Oct.), British physician (cardiologist) and naturalist, who published a catalogue of birds, shells etc. from Dorsetshire in 1799, which is essential for some names of molluscs. He also i.a. published "A General View of the Writings of Linnaeus".

Professor Reginald Crundall Punnett, (20 June - Tonbridge, Kent) 1875-1967 (3 Jan. - Bilbrook, Somerset), British Mendelian geneticist, who - when young - published several articles about nemerteans, beeing an assistent to M'Intosh (q.v.) during 1899-1903 [Baseodiscus punnetti (Coe, 1904), Punnettia Stiasny-Wijnhoff, 1926, Oxypolella punnetti Bergendal, 1902, Amphiporus (Intestinonemertes) punnetti Friedrich, 1957]. (Photo - in web page about his colleague Bateson)

Dr. Kalle J. Purasjoki, 19??-, retired Brackish water biologist at the Tvärminne Biological Station in SW Finland [Ptychopera purasjokii Ax, 1971].

Prof. Dr. Richard Denison Purchon, (19 Mar. - Sheffield, Yorkshire) 1916-1992 (17 Oct.), English malacologist, achieved a PhD in Bristol 1939 supervised by C.M. Yonge (q.v.). Spent most of the WWII in German prison Camps, but after repatriation he got a lectureship in zoology at the Univ. College, Cardiff. In 1950 he was appointed professor of Zoology in Singapore, but left for Ghana in 1960, where he stayed only a short while and returned to Britain and the Zoology Chair at Chelsea College, Univ. of London. There he wrote and published "The Biology of the Mollusca" in 1968. He retired formally in 1981, but continued working. Beside his book, he is most remembered for his work on bivalves. They comprised but two sub-classes, Protobranchia and Lamellibranchia, according to his view.

Ruth Purdy, (25 Nov.) 1906-1984 (1 Dec.), San Diego, California, is honoured in the gastropod names Favartia purdyae E. H. Vokes & A. D' Attilio, 1980, Trophon purdyae R. Houart, 1983 and Haustellum purdyae Radwin & D' Attilio, 1976 and in Terebra purdyae . She and her husband Ben Purdy were both collectors.

Francesco Pusateri, 19??-, malacologist from Palermo.

The Russian Pantopoda researcher Dr. Alexander F. Pushkin, 19??-, is likely the person honoured in the tanaid name Peraeospinosus pushkini (Tzareva, 1982).

Dr. Marc Pussard, 19??-, Dijon, France, who published on amoebae during the 1970s, is honoured in the gymnamoeba name Mayorella pussardi Hollande, Nicolas & Escaig, 1981 and the amoeboflagellate name Naegleria pussardi Pernin and De Jonckheere, 1996.

Prof. Frederic Ward Putnam, (16 Apr. - Salem, Massachusetts) 1839-1915 (14 Aug. - Cambridge, Massachusetts), US ichthyologist, a disciple of Agassiz.

Mr. K.A. Pyefinch, 1???-19??, who published on Ascothoracica and other cirripedians during the 1930s and later (1940s & beginning of 1950s) published on antifouling and other things (at least until 1962), is honoured in the species name Baccalaureus pyefinchi Brattström, 1956

Pylaie : (see Bachelot de la Pylaie).

Cirrhilabrus pylei Allen & Randall, 1996 was named for Dr. Richard L. Pyle, (Hawaii) 19??-, Ichthyology Collections Technician at the Bishop Museum, Hawaii from 1990, who collected holotype and also Petroscirtes pylei Smith-Vaniz, 2005 in appreciation of his pioneering efforts to shed more light on the ichthyofauna of the deep reef "Twilight Zone." (Dr. Riccardo Giannuzzi-Savelli, Palermo, kidly provided the last eponym).

Is a person's name Pyronas hiding in the nematod name Theristus pyronasi Gerlach, 1965 or perhaps only having a pear shaped nose?

The foraminiferan genus Pyrgo Defrance, 1824 was named for the nurse of king Priamos' children Pyrgo, who is mentioned by Homeros and followed Aeneas from Ilion.

Wilhelm Pässler, 1866-1944, German Malacologist.

Hans.G.Hansson