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American malacologist
Gender:
Male
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Birth:
22 October 1833
Death:
3 August 1909
The details
Biography
Introduction
William Greene Binney (October 22, 1833 – August 3, 1909) was an American malacologist, working mostly during the second half of the nineteenth century. He was responsible for volumes 4 and 5 of The Terrestrial Air-Breathing Mollusks of the United States, a task he took over from his father, Amos Binney, and collaborator, Augustus Addison Gould. The ninety engraved plates which were part of volume 5, illustrating most of the then known land mollusk fauna, are particularly noteworthy.
Binney's obituary in the New York Times, included the following information:
Taxa
Taxa named in honor of Binney include:
- Nesovitrea binneyana (E. S. Morse, 1864)