Paul Maurice Pallary

Paul Maurice Pallary (9 March 1869, in Mers-el-Kebir, French Algeria – 9 January 1942, in Oran, Vichy French Algeria) was a French-Algerian malacologist.^[1]

His pioneering research on molluscs was mainly concentrated in the western part of the Mediterranean Sea and in the Middle East. He was a prolific writer on malacofauna, but his interests also extended to other fields of zoology^[2] as well as geology, and in particular the prehistory of Northern Africa. He became known as the "Dean of North African Prehistory".^{[citation needed]} In 1892, he discovered, together with François Doumergue, several paleolithic and neolithic caves at Cuartel^[where?] and Kouchet El Djir, Oran.^{[citation needed]}

Pallary named more than 100 mollusc species and even a few genera (Adansonia Pallary, 1902; Corbula (Physoida) Pallary, 1900; Orania Pallary, 1900).^[3]

Ten species have been named in his honour, some of which have become synonyms:^[4]

• Arbacina pallaryi Gauthier, 1897: synonym of Genocidaris maculata A. Agassiz, 1869
• Cirsotrema pallaryi de Boury, 1912: synonym of Cirsotrema cochlea (Sowerby G.B. II, 1844)
• Columbella pallaryi Dautzenberg, 1927: synonym of Mitrella pallaryi (Dautzenberg, 1927)
• Cythara pallaryi Nordsieck, 1977: synonym of Mangiliella pallaryi (Nordsieck, 1977) accepted as Mangelia pallaryi (Nordsieck, 1977)
• Mangelia pallaryi (Nordsieck, 1977)
• Mangiliella pallaryi (Nordsieck, 1977): synonym of Mangelia pallaryi (Nordsieck, 1977)
• Mitrella pallaryi (Dautzenberg, 1927)
• Raphitoma pallaryi Nordsieck, 1977
• Salmo pallaryi Pellegrin, 1924: synonym of Salmo trutta macrostigma (Duméril, 1858)
• Turbonilla pallaryi Dautzenberg, 1910