22 July 1916(1916-07-22) (aged 68) Acton, London, England
Children
6
Parent(s)
Frederick Smith
Academic career
Fields
Zoology, malacology
Institutions
British Museum, now named Natural History Museum
Author abbrev. (zoology)
E. A. Smith
The grave of Edgar Albert Smith, with a shell of the giant clam on top of the headstone
Edgar Albert Smith (29 November 1847 – 22 July 1916) was a British zoologist, a malacologist.
His father was Frederick Smith, a well-known entomologist, and assistant keeper of zoology in the British Museum, Bloomsbury.[1] Edgar Albert Smith was educated both at the North London Collegiate School and privately, being well grounded in Latin amongst other subjects, as his excellent diagnoses bear witness.[2]
Smith married in July 1876.[2] Subsequently, his wife and he had four sons and two daughters.[2]
He gave more prominent attention to the fauna of the African Great Lakes and the marine molluscs of South Africa,[2] and also the non-marine mollusc fauna of Borneo and New Guinea.[2]
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Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O (eds.). "Onykia ingens (E. A. Smith, 1881)". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 16 March...
; Thuy, B. (Eds) (2024). World Ophiuroidea Database. Ophiopteris E. A. Smith, 1877. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www...
Ed, Eddie, Edgar, Edward, Edwin, and similar, surnamed Smith, may refer to: Edward H. Smith (sailor) (1889–1961), United States Coast Guard admiral, oceanographer...
although fossil shells have been discovered at Lake Edward and in the Lake Albert basin. The type locality is the East shore of Lake Tanganyika, at Ujiji...
is moderately convex whereas the other valve is slightly concave. Smith, EdgarAlbert (1881). "On the genus Myodora of Gray". Proceedings of the Zoological...
Zootaxa. 4250 (2): 124. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4250.2.1. PMID 28610023. Smith, Edgar A. (1899). "Descriptions of New Species of South African Marine Shells"...
2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T44261A10869389.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021. Smith E. A. (1880). "Diagnoses of new shells from Lake Tanganyika and East Africa"...
Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997. Smith E. A. (1880). "Diagnoses of new shells from Lake Tanganyika and East Africa"...
Bequaert, 1927 Syrnolopsis lacustris E. A. Smith, 1880 - type species Syrnolopsis minuta Bourguignat, 1885 Smith E. A. (1880). "Diagnoses of new shells from...
be minor threats to this species. Tiphobia horei Smith, 1880. Museum specimen. Tiphobia horei Smith, 1880. Museum specimens. Ngereza, C. (2010). "Tiphobia...
2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T134051244A134051258.en. Accessed on 11 October 2022. Smith E. A. (1877). "On the shells of Lake Nyasa, and on a few marine species...
2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T21386A9266154.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021. Smith E. A. (1880). "Diagnoses of new shells from Lake Tanganyika and East Africa"...
figure 9. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Hyperaulax ramagei (E. A. Smith, 1890). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www...
auger snails. It is found in the Persian Gulf. and off Papua New Guinea. Smith, Edgar A. (1877). "Descriptions of new species of Conidæ and Terebridæ". Annals...
2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T134051244A134051258.en. Retrieved 15 November 2021. Smith E. A. (1877). "On the shells of Lake Nyasa, and on a few marine species...
2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T21272A9263203.en. Retrieved 15 November 2021. Smith E. A. (1880). "Diagnoses of new shells from Lake Tanganyika and East Africa"...
occurs in the Ross Sea. Bouchet, P. (2015). Falsimohnia innocens (E. A. Smith, 1907). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine...
2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T134051244A134051258.en. Accessed on 11 October 2022. Smith E. A. (1877). "On the shells of Lake Nyasa, and on a few marine species...
valve is clearly convex whereas the other valve is slightly concave. Smith, EdgarAlbert (1881). "On the genus Myodora of Gray". Proceedings of the Zoological...
originally discovered and described by British malacologist EdgarAlbertSmith in 1877. Smith's original text (the type description) reads as follows: Shell...
genus was described by EdgarAlbertSmith in 1889. Species within the genera Robillardia include: Robillardia cernica E. A. Smith, 1889 (Type taxon) Robillardia...
iridescens (Moore, 1898) The type description of the genus Paramelania by EdgarAlbertSmith (1881) reads as follows: Shell solid, ovate-conical, imperforate,...
Smith (1797–1872), zoologist EdgarAlbertSmith (1847–1916), zoologist and conchologist Frederick Smith (1805–1879), entomologist George D. W. Smith (born...
lakes. It is threatened by habitat loss. Original description by EdgarAlbertSmith from 1877 describes a juvenile snail. The IUCN Red List of Threatened...
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