Arthur Adams (zoologist)

Arthur Adams (Gosport, Hampshire 1820–1878) was an English physician and naturalist.

Adams was assistant surgeon on board H.M.S. "Actaeon" in company with HMS Samarang in the British Navy during the survey of the Malay Archipelago, the Japan Sea, Korea and China,from 1843 to 1846.[1] He edited the Zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Samarang (1850). Adam White collaborated with him in the descriptions of the Crustacea from the voyage.

He was a prolific malacologist who described "hundreds of new species, most of them unillustrated and insufficiently diagnosed".[2] He partly worked together with his brother Henry Adams (1813–1877) and together they wrote The genera of recent mollusca: arranged according to their organization (three volumes, 1858). He also wrote Travels of a naturalist in Japan and Manchuria (1870), and an article about the interesting spiders seen on his travels.[3]

Species named after Arthur Adams

Finella adamsi (Dall, 1889), Arcopsis adamsi (Dall, 1886), Hinnites adamsi Dall, 1886 (synonym of Pseudohinnites adamsi (Dall, 1886) ), Brachidontes adamsianus (Dunker, 1857), Nucinella adamsi (Dall, 1898); likely Natica adamsiana R. W. Dunker, 1860, possibly Octopus adamsi Benham, 1944 (synonym of Octopus huttoni Benham, 1943), possibly Zebrida adamsi White, 1847] [4]

References

  1. ^ "Adams (Arthur) [1820–1878]". The History of the Collections Contained in the Natural History Departments of the British Museum. Adamant Media. 2000. pp. 23. ISBN 9781402181405. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ZWtjNPH5w58C&pg=PA23. 
  2. ^ S. Peter Dance (1966). Shell Collecting. An Illustrated History. Faber & Faber. ISBN 9780571067626.  Cited in E. Alison Kay (1968). "Spurious Species Part III. Shells Erroneously Described From The Hawaiian Islands" (PDF). Hawaiian Shell News. New Series No. 99 16 (3): 1, 5. http://s190418054.onlinehome.us/HSN/1960/6803.pdf. 
  3. ^ Arthur Adams (1847). "Notes on the habits of certain exotic spiders". Annals and Magazine of Natural History 20: 289–297. http://www.archive.org/stream/annalsmagazineof20lond#page/289/mode/1up. 
  4. ^ Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names: Henry Adams

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