Temple Prime Explained

Temple Prime (September 14, 1832, New York City – February 25, 1903, New York City) was an American amateur conchologist.[1] He studied under Louis Agassiz at Harvard University.[2] He described several new species of the bivalve family Cycladidae.[3] [4] [5]

Prime was also an amateur genealogist, publishing several books on his own family history.[6]

Notes and references

  1. Web site: Temple Prime . Illinois Natural History Survey. https://web.archive.org/web/20160919214353/http://wwn.inhs.illinois.edu/~ksc/Malacologists/PrimeT.html . 19 September 2016.
  2. Roberts, S. Raymond . 1903. Temple Prime. Nautilus. 16. 12. 138–139.
  3. Prime, Temple. 1852. Description of Cycladidae . Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 4. 155–165.
  4. Johnson, Richard I.. 1959. The types of Corbiculidae and Sphaeriidae (Mollusca: Pelecypoda) in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and a bio-bibliographic sketch of Temple Prime, an early specialist of the group . Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 120. 4. 429–479.
  5. Subsequently the family name "Cycladidae" was given up in favour of "Sphaeriidae". Bowden, John. Heppell, David. amp. 1968. Revised list of British Mollusca. 2. Unionacea-Cardiacea. Journal of Conchology. 26. 4. 237–272, note 55, pages 253–254. https://web.archive.org/web/20141228234614/http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/263507.pdf. 28 December 2014. dead.
  6. Web site: Prime, Temple 1832-1903 . Worldcat Identities . https://web.archive.org/web/20221023002458/https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n85809476/ . 23 October 2022.

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