John Read le Brockton Tomlin
John Read le Brockton Tomlin (15 August 1864 – 24 December 1954) was a British malacologist. He was one of the founders of the Malacological Society of London and was president of the Conchological Society of Great Britain & Ireland on two separate occasions.
Tomlin named more than a hundred taxa of gastropod molluscs, including:
- The family Abyssochrysoidea Tomlin, 1927
- The family Columbariidae Tomlin, 1928
He also named some scaphopods and bivalves.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.