William Harper Pease
American conchologist and malacologist (1824–1871) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Harper Pease (1824–1871) was a 19th-century American conchologist, shell collector and malacologist. He described many species of Indo-Pacific marine mollusks from the Cuming collection.
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William Harper Pease | |
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Born | 1824 |
Died | 1871 (aged 46–47) |
Occupation | Zoologist, malacologist |
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He moved in 1849 to Honolulu, from where he continued his research
One of the genera he described and named was the sea slug genus: Philinopsis Pease, 1860
Several species were named in his honor : Favartia peasei (Tryon, 1880), Conus peasei J. Brazier, 1877, Amygdalum peasei W. Newcomb, 1870 and Hypselodoris peasei (Bergh, 1880)
For many years, no image of Pease was known, until a 2021 paper revealed that two cartes-de-visite (one shown above) had been discovered in the Bishop Museum Archives, Honolulu.[1]