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Article Nº 2235 Cross-reference · Vol. II · p. 622

Malacology

Original title: Malacologia

See Albers, Andrew, Snails, the Baron of Castelo de Paiva, Cephalopods, Shells, Girard, Richard Thomas Lowe, Nobre, Octopus, Squid, Hewett Cottrell Watson, Thomas Vernon Wollaston and Cockerel, the last in the Supplement.

See · Nº 0100 · Scientist or naturalist Albers (Joan. Christ.) Brief entry on Joan. Christ. Albers, a German naturalist who stayed in Madeira from October 1850 to June 1851 and published a work on Madeiran molluscs, the Malacographia maderensis (Berlin, 1854).
See · Nº 0232 · Scientist or naturalist Andrew (Robert Mc.) Author of an 1854 study of North Atlantic marine molluscs listing 156 species he found in Madeiran waters.
See · Nº 0788 · Mollusc Snails General entry on the land and freshwater snails (pulmonate molluscs) of the Madeira archipelago, noting their remarkable endemism island by island and their abundant sub-fossil deposits. It follows Wollaston's count of 176 species, 131 of them terrestrial and endemic.
See · Nº 0861 · Scientist or naturalist Castelo de Paiva (António da Costa Paiva, Baron of) Biography of António da Costa Paiva, Baron of Castelo de Paiva (1806–1879), a Porto-born physician and naturalist commissioned in 1855 to study Madeira's agriculture and economy. He built a Madeiran herbarium and shell collection and wrote a landmark monograph on the archipelago's land and freshwater molluscs.
See · Nº 0881 · Taxonomic group Cephalopods Survey of the cephalopod molluscs found in Madeiran waters, including the octopus, squid, cuttlefish, Spirula and the flying squid (pota).
See · Nº 1012 · Mollusc Shells Survey of the marine molluscs and shells of Madeira and Porto Santo by depth zone, including the dye of the purple whelk, the shell trade from Porto Santo beach and the folk names children there give to shells.
See · Nº 1656 · Scientist or naturalist Girard (Alberto A.) French-born naturalist, naturalised Portuguese and trained as a civil engineer, who accompanied King Carlos on oceanographic explorations and wrote on the cephalopods and fossil molluscs of Madeira.
See · Nº 2139 · Scientist or naturalist Lowe (Revd Richard Thomas) Biography of the Reverend Richard Thomas Lowe (1802–1874), English clergyman and naturalist who lived in Madeira from 1826 to 1852 and produced foundational works on its fishes, flora and molluscs. The Elucidário calls him the foreigner who rendered the greatest scientific services to Madeira.
See · Nº 2531 · Scientist or naturalist Nobre (Dr Augusto) Augusto Nobre, a Porto-born zoologist and university professor, brother of the poet António Nobre, who published studies on the marine and land molluscs and the pilot whales of Madeira.
See · Nº 2923 · Mollusc Octopus (Octopus vulgaris) The common octopus of Madeira's rocky coast, how it is caught, and rarer cephalopods recorded near the island such as a giant squid and the argonaut.
See · Nº 2991 · Mollusc Pota (Ommastrephes sagittatus) The pota (Ommastrephes sagittatus) is a cephalopod mollusc of deep waters that surfaces in summer off Madeira. It is valued as bait for tuna and black scabbardfish fishing.
See · Nº 3823 · Scientist or naturalist Watson (Robert Boog) Robert Boog Watson, English conchologist and Protestant chaplain in Funchal who studied Madeira's marine molluscs between 1864 and 1874.
See · Nº 3831 · Scientist or naturalist Wollaston (Thomas Vernon) English naturalist who visited the Madeira archipelago four times between 1847 and 1855, collecting insects and molluscs and publishing major works on them.

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Referenced here · 13: Albers (Joan. Christ.) Nº 0100
Andrew (Robert Mc.) Nº 0232
Snails Nº 0788
Castelo de Paiva (António da Costa Paiva, Baron of) Nº 0861
Cephalopods Nº 0881
Shells Nº 1012
Girard (Alberto A.) Nº 1656
Lowe (Revd Richard Thomas) Nº 2139

+ 5 more

Nobre (Dr Augusto) Nº 2531
Octopus (Octopus vulgaris) Nº 2923
Pota (Ommastrephes sagittatus) Nº 2991
Watson (Robert Boog) Nº 3823
Wollaston (Thomas Vernon) Nº 3831

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