Paul Maurice Pallary, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French zoologist
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Place of Birth: Mers El Kébir, Oran Province, Algeria
About Paul Maurice Pallary
- Paul Maurice Pallary (9 March 1869, in Mers-el-Kebir, French Algeria – 9 January 1942, in Oran, Vichy French Algeria) was a French-Algerian malacologist.His pioneering research on molluscs was mainly concentrated in the western part of the Mediterranean Sea and in the Middle East.
- He was a prolific writer on malacofauna.
- But his interests also extended to other fields of zoology, geology and in particular the prehistory of Northern Africa.
- He became known as the "Dean of North African Prehistory." In 1892 he discovered, together with François Doumergue, several paleolithic and neolithic caves at Cuartel and Kouchet El Djir. He named more than 100 mollusc species and even a few genera (Adansonia Pallary, 1902; Corbula (Physoida) Pallary, 1900; Orania Pallary, 1900) Ten species have been named in his honour, some of which have become synonyms: Arbacina allaryi Gauthier, 1897 : synonym of Genocidaris maculata A.
- Agassiz, 1869 Cirsotrema pallaryi de Boury, 1912 : synonym of Cirsotrema cochlea (Sowerby G.B.
- II, 1844) Columbella pallaryi Dautzenberg, 1927 : synonym of Mitrella pallaryi (Dautzenberg, 1927) Cythara pallaryi Nordsieck, 1977 : synonym of Mangiliella pallaryi (Nordsieck, 1977) accepted as Mangelia pallaryi (Nordsieck, 1977) Mangelia pallaryi (Nordsieck, 1977) Mangiliella pallaryi (Nordsieck, 1977) : synonym of Mangelia pallaryi (Nordsieck, 1977) Mitrella pallaryi (Dautzenberg, 1927) Raphitoma pallaryi Nordsieck, 1977 Salmo pallaryi Pellegrin, 1924 : synonym of Salmo trutta macrostigma (Duméril, 1858) Turbonilla pallaryi Dautzenberg, 1910
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