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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 as well as 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, Oran.
Pallary 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 pallaryi 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
References
Citations
- Biographies of malacologists : Paul Maurice Pallary Archived 25 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- Chabanaud, P. 1916 Sur divers reptiles et batraciens du Maroc recueillis par M. Pallary. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 22:228-233
- World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) : List of genera and species named by Paul Pallary: accessed : 11 February 2011
- WoRMS : Species named after Paul Pallary; accessed : 11 February 2011
Bibliography
- Fischer, P.-H. & E. Fischer, 1946. Nécrologie. Paul Pallary. 9 Mars 1869–9 Janvier 1942.― Journal de Conchyliologie 87 (1): 5–27
- Ruud A. Bank & Henk P.M.G. Menkhorst, A revised bibliography of the malacological papers of Paul Pallary