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1889 illustration of a shell of Herpetopoma seychellarum G. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1869

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

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Taxa named by Geoffrey Nevill and Hugh Nevill

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Three shells of Schwartziella catesbyana (d’Orbigny, 1842). The genus Schwartziella was named by Geoffrey Nevill in 1885

The list is in alphabetical order. The items at the top are genus names.



References

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  1. ^ a b "Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names. N & O". Tmbl.gu.se. Retrieved 19 August 2013.
  2. ^ Nevill, Hugh (1882). "Oriental Studies". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  • 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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