Thomas William Kirk
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Thomas William Kirk was a biologist
, scientific administrator from New Zealand
. He studied the fauna and flora of New Zealand.
He named various taxa of New Zealand molluscs including:
Biologist
A biologist is a scientist devoted to and producing results in biology through the study of life. Typically biologists study organisms and their relationship to their environment. Biologists involved in basic research attempt to discover underlying mechanisms that govern how organisms work...
, scientific administrator from New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
. He studied the fauna and flora of New Zealand.
He named various taxa of New Zealand molluscs including:
- Cylichna zelandicaCylichna zelandicaCylichna zelandica is a species of sea snail or bubble snail, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Cylichnidae, the chalice bubble snails or canoe bubble snails.-References:...
T.W. Kirk, 1880snailSnailSnail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
Further reading
- T. Nightingale, 1996. Kirk, Thomas William, 1956-1936. Dictionary of New Zealand Biography 3: 265.