Thomas Say

Thomas Say

Thomas Say (June 6, 1787 – October 10, 1834), U.S. naturalist.

IPNI standard form: Say

Taxon names authored

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  • 192 taxon names authored by Thomas Say

Eponyms

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  • 4 eponyms of Thomas Say

Publications

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1818

1821

1822

1823

1824

  • 1824. D. Class Vermes. Order Cryptobranchia. Hirudo. In: W.H. Keating, (ed.) Narrative of an expedition to the source of St. Peter's River, Lake Winnepeek, Lake of the Woods, Volume 2. Philadelphia: H.C. Carey and I. Lea. Pp. 266–268. BHL Reference page. 
  • 1824. E. Class Insecta. In: W.H. Keating, (ed.) Narrative of an expedition to the source of St. Peter's River, Lake Winnepeek, Lake of the Woods, Volume 2. Philadelphia: H.C. Carey and I. Lea. Pp. 268–378. BHL Reference page. 
  • 1824. Descriptions of Coleopterous Insects collected in the late Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, performed by order of Mr. Calhoun, Secretary of War, under the command of Major Long. (Continued.) Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 3(2): 238–282, 298–331, 403–462. BHL, BHL, BHL Reference page. 
  • 1824. Descriptions of coleopterous insects collected in the late expedition to the Rocky Mountains, performed by order of Mr. Calhoun, Secretary of War, under the command of Major Long. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 4: 83–99. BHL Reference page. 
  • 1824. An account of some fossil shells of Maryland. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 4: 124-155 BHL

1825

1827

1828

  • 1828. American entomology, or descriptions of the insects of North America. Vol. III. Philadelphia Museum. BHL Reference page. 

1829

1830

1831

  • 1831. Descriptions of North American Curculionides and an arrangement of some of our known species agreeably to the method of Schoenherr. 30 pp. New Harmony, Indiana. BHL. [Reprinted in Leconte, J.L. (ed.) 1891: The complete writings of Thomas Say on the entomology of North America, 1: 259–299, with the original pagination indicated in the text in square brackets. BHL.] Reference page. 
  • 1831. Descriptions of new species of North American insects, found in Louisiana by Joseph Barabino. Pp. 1-19. New Harmony, Indiana. HathiTrust Reference page. 
  • 1831. Descriptions of new species of heteropterous Hemiptera of North America. 39 pp. New Harmony, Indiana. [Reprinted in Leconte, J.L. (ed.) 1891: The complete writings of Thomas Say on the entomology of North America, 1: 310-368. BHL. Reference page. 
  • 1831: [untitled continuation of Say, 1830. Descriptions of new species of North American insects, and observations on some already described.], pp. 42–49. New Harmony (Indiana): T. Say.

1832

  • 1832: [untitled continuation of Say, 1830. Descriptions of new species of North American insects, and observations on some already described.], pp. 50–57. New Harmony (Indiana): T. Say.

1833

  • 1833: [untitled continuation of Say, 1830. Descriptions of new species of North American insects, and observations on some already described.], pp. 58–73. New Harmony (Indiana): T. Say.

1835

  • 1835. Descriptions of new North American Coleopterous Insects, and observations on some already described. Boston Journal of Natural History 1(2): 151–203. BHL Reference page. 

1836

1837

1839

References

  • Binney, W. G. 1858. The complete writings of Thomas Say, on the conchology of the United States. New York, H. Baillière. URL full work
  • LeConte, J.L. & Ord, G. 1859. The complete writings of Thomas Say on the entomology of North America. Vol. 1. New York: Baillière brothers. xxiv + 412 pp. Internet Archive BHL
Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature
Name(s):
Coluber septemvittatus , 1825
Name(s):
Pamera , 1831 (name suppressed)
Name(s):
Lygaeus leucopterus , 1832 (currently accepted as Blissus leucopterus (, 1832))
Name(s):
Unio plicata , 1817
Name(s):
Doniax variabilis , 1822
Name(s):
Calyptraea striata , 1826 (currently accepted as Crucibulum striatum (, 1826))
Name(s):
Paludina porata , 1821 (currently synonym of Amnicola limosus (, 1817))
Paludina limosa , 1817 (currently accepted as Amnicola limosus (, 1817))
Name(s):
Gammarus fasciatus , 1818
Name(s):
Saperda inornata , 1824, and AMNH-147 as lectotype of this name.
Name(s):
Corixia mercenaria , 1832 (currently accepted as Corisella mercenaria (Say, 1832)), type species of Corisella Lundblad, 1928
Name(s):
Gryphaea corrugata , 1823 (name suppressed)
Name(s):
Unio alatus , 1817 (currently accepted as Potamilus alatus (, 1817))
Name(s):
Buthus vittatus , 1821 (currently accepted as Centruroides vittatus (, 1821))
Name(s):
Polygyra , 1818
Polygyra septemvolva , 1818
Helix thyroidus , 1817 (currently accepted as Mesodon thyroidus (, 1817))
Name(s):
Halictus purus , 1837 (currently accepted as Augochlora pura ( , 1837))
Name(s):
Buprestis germinatus , 1823
Buprestis gibbicolis , 1823
Buprestis cyanipes , 1823
Name(s):
Diastylis , 1818
Name(s):
Staphylinus iracundus , 1830 (currently synonym of Quedius fulgidus fulgidus (Fabricius, 1792))
Name(s):
Unio ochraceus , 1817 (currently accepted as Leptodea ochracea (, 1817))
Name(s):
Buprestis sexsignata , 1839 (currently accepted as Chrysobothris sexsignata (, 1817))