Geoffrey Nevill (1842 -10 Feb 1885) born in Holloway, London, England, was a British scientist, a malacologist who worked primarily in Calcutta, India. Nevill had previously done malacological fieldwork in Mauritius, the Isle of Bourbon, and the Seychelles; some of the new species he found in those localities were named and described in 1868 by Henry Adams (the brother of Arthur Adams). Nevill's father William had a famous collection of meteorites.[1] Geoffrey Nevill often worked with his brother Hugh Neville.
Hugh Nevill, (1847 - 10 April 1897), was the younger brother of Geoffrey Nevill, and was also British. He was a civil servant. He lived in in Sri Lanka for 32 years, starting in 1865. Hugh Neville was a shell collector like his brother, but not to the same degree, because he was a more general naturalist who collected other natural history objects. Hugh Nevill also had a large collection of Sinhalese manuscripts. Hugh Neville died in 1897 in Hyères, France. His shell collection was auctioned on 10 May 1904.[1]
Oriental Studies Hugh Nevill, 1882 [2]
Taxa named in honor of Nevill
edit- Bathybembix nevilli E. A. Smith, 1906
Taxa named by Geoffrey Nevill and Hugh Nevill
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The list is in alphabetical order. The items at the top are genus names.
- Arcuella G. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1874
- Mainwaringia Nevill, 1885
- Peasiella Nevill, 1885
- Pisulina G. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1869
- Pseudotrochatella G. Nevill, 1881
- Schwartziella G. Nevill, 1885
- Tallorbis G. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1869
- Achatina fulica umbilicata Nevill, 1879
- Arcuella mirifica (G. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1874)
- Arcuella mirifica G. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1874
- Ascobulla pusilla (G. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1869)
- Broderipia eximia G. & H. Nevill, 1869
- Brotia assamensis (Nevill, 1885)
- Clanculus ceylonicus G. & H. Nevill
- Clanculus tonnerrei (G. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1874)
- Conus pretiosus G. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1874
- Cylindrobulla sculpta G. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1869
- Ethminolia impressa G. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1869
- Eucithara dubiosa (Nevill & Nevill, 1875)
- Gibbula stoliczkana (Nevill, G. & H. Nevill, 1869)
- Gonospira duponti Nevill, 1870
- Granulina isseli G. & H. Nevill, 1875
- Hemitoma oldhamiana (Nevill, 1869)
- Herpetopoma seychellarum (G. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1869)
- Isanda holdsworthiana H. Nevill & G. Nevill, 1871
- Littoraria delicatula Nevill, 1885
- Macroschisma canalifera (G. & H. Nevill, 1869)
- Macroschisma scutiformis G. & H. Nevill, 1869
- Mainwaringia paludomoidea Nevill
- Marginella picturata G. & H. Nevill, 1874
- Melanella acuformis G. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1875
- Nassarius obesus (G. & H. Nevill, 1875)
- Oxynoe delicatula G. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1869
- Pagodulina austeniana (Nevill, 1880)
- Peasiella roepstorffiana (Nevill, 1885)
- Pseudorhaphitoma fairbanki (G. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1875) T
- Pterocyclus cyclophoroideus (G. Nevill, 1881)
- Rissoina evanida ?Nevill, 1874
- Rissoina indica Nevill, 1884
- Rissoina monilifera Nevill, 1875
- Rissoina percrassa G. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1874
- Rissoina perpusilla Nevill, 1884
- Rissoina subfuniculata Nevill, 1878
- Rissoina weinkauffiana Nevill, 1881
- Rostellariella delicatula (Nevill, 1881)
- Schwartziella minuta (Nevill, 1874)
- Stosicia abnormis (G. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1875)
- Stosicia abnormis (G. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1875)
- Tallorbis roseola G. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1869 († Eucyclinae)
- Tibia delicatula Nevill, 1881
- Vaceuchelus roseolus (G. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1869)
- Volvatella cincta G. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1869
- Williamia eximia (Nevill in G. & H. Nevill, 1869)
References
edit- ^ a b "Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names. N & O". Tmbl.gu.se. Retrieved 19 August 2013.
- ^ Nevill, Hugh (1882). "Oriental Studies".
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- Nevill G. & Nevill H. (1874). "Descriptions of new Mollusca from the Indian Ocean". Journal Asiatic Society of Bengal Vol. XLIII, Part II.
- Henry, Godwin-Austen; Geoffery, Nevill (1879). Descriptions of Shells from Perak and the Nicobar Islands.
- Wallace, Alfred Russel (6 July 2012). Island Life: Or, the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras, Including a Revision and Attempted Solution of the Problem of Geological Climates. ISBN 9781108052832.
- Nevill, Geoffrey (2009). "Additional Notes on the Land-Shells of the Seychelles Islands". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 37: 61. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1869.tb07295.x.
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