Myra Keen
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American malacologist and invertebrate paleontologist
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Myra Keen's Degrees
- PhD Geology University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Geology University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Geology University of California, Berkeley
Why Is Myra Keen Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Angeline Myra Keen was an American malacologist and invertebrate paleontologist. She was an expert on the evolution of marine mollusks. With a PhD in psychology. Keen went from being a volunteer, identifying shells at Stanford, and having no formal training in biology or geology, to being one of the world's foremost malacologists. She was called the "First Lady of Malacology".
Myra Keen's Published Works
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Published Works
- Sea shells of tropical west America (1975) (433)
- Sea Shells of Tropical West America; Marine Mollusks from Baja California to Peru (1971) (424)
- Classification of Bivalvia (1969) (260)
- Form, function, and evolution (1969) (138)
- Marine Molluscan Genera of Western North America: An Illustrated Key (1963) (53)
- An Abridged Check List and Bibliography of West North American Marine Mollusca (1938) (31)
- Check List of California Tertiary Marine Mollusca (1944) (28)
- The Giant African Snail. A problem in economic malacology. Albert R. Mead. University of Chicago Press. Chicago, Ill., 1961. vii + 257 pp. Illus. $7.50 (1962) (22)
- Book Reviews: Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Marine Mollusks from Lower California to Colombia (1960) (21)
- "Sea shells of tropical west America": additions and corrections to 1975 (1975) (14)
- NEW PELECYPOD SPECIES OF THE GENERA LASÆA AND CRASSINELLA (1938) (9)
- New mollusks from the Round Mountain Silt (Temblor) Miocene of California (1943) (9)
- California fossils for the field geologist (1940) (9)
- A NEW SPECIES OF STEPHOPOMA (SILIQUARIIDAE: MESOGASTROPODA) FROM THE EASTERN ATLANTIC OCEAN (1960) (8)
- A Bivalve Gastropod (1960) (7)
- On the nomenclature and generic position of Nautilus beccarii Linne (Foraminifera, "Rotaliidae") (1949) (6)
- Family Pterineidae Miller, 1877 (1969) (6)
- A new west Mexican subgenus and new species of Montacutidae (Mollusca: Pelecypoda) with a list of Mollusca from Bahia de San Quintin (1962) (5)
- A new Pelecypod genus of the family Cardiidae (1936) (3)
- Suggested Generic Allocations for some Japanese Molluscan Species (1973) (3)
- Protective Coloration in the Light of Gestalt Theory (1932) (3)
- A quantitative analysis of molluscan collections from Isla Espíritu Santo, Baja California, Mexico (1964) (2)
- Six misidentified type-species in the superfamily Muricacea (Gastropoda) (1964) (2)
- The Annotator: The Pursuit of an Elizabethan Reader of Halle's Chronicle Involving Some Surmises About the Early Life of William Shakespeare (1954) (2)
- Catalogue and revision of the gastropod sub-family Typhinae (1944) (2)
- Ventricolaria and Similivenus insolida, new names in the pelecypod family Veneridae (1954) (1)
- Purpura, Ocenebra and Muricanthus (Gastropoda): request for clarification of status Z.N.(S.) 1621 (1964) (1)
- Superfamily Pteriacea Gray, 1847 (1820) (1969) (1)
- On the systematic place of Cypraea mus (1962) (1)
- Realia Baird, 1850 (Gastropoda): request for suppression under the plenary powers. Z.N.(S.) 1878 (1969) (1)
- Part I, Mollusca 1, Complete Volume (1960) (0)
- Part N, Mollusca 6, vol. 1, ch. 4, p. 393–489 (1969) (0)
- Nana Schumacher, 1817 (Gastropoda): proposed suppression under the Plenary Powers (1964) (0)
- Book Review:American Seashells. The Marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts of North America. R. Tucker Abbott (1975) (0)
- Encyclopedic, Indispensable: British Prosobranch Molluscs . Their functional anatomy and ecology. Publication of the British Ray Society , No. 144. Vera Fretter and Alastair Graham. Published for the Society by Quaritch, London, 1962. xvi + 755 pp. Illus. £8 8s. (1963) (0)
- Comment on the proposed emendation under the Plenary Powers to Cavolinia of Cavolina Abildgaard, 1791 (1964) (0)
- Part I, Mollusca 1, ch. 3, p. 185-311 (1960) (0)
- Part N, Mollusca 6, vol. 2, ch. 6, p. 690–868 (1969) (0)
- Addition to Molluscan fauna of California (1947) (0)
- Part N, Mollusca 6, vol. 2, ch. 5, p. 491–690 (1969) (0)
- Comment on the name of the type-species of Xerwphora (1963) (0)
- Tectarius (Mollusca: Gastropoda): request for validation in its accustomed sense. Z.N. (S.) 1754 (1966) (0)
- Part N, Mollusca 6, vol. 1 & 2, Complete Volume (1969) (0)
- Comment on the proposed designation of a type species for Clathurella Carpenter 1857 (1962) (0)
- Population Control. (Book Reviews: The Giant African Snail. A problem in economic malacology) (1962) (0)
- Population Control: The Giant African Snail . A problem in economic malacology. Albert R. Mead. University of Chicago Press. Chicago, Ill., 1961. vii + 257 pp. Illus. $7.50. (1962) (0)
- Family Pulvinitidae Stephenson, 1941 (1969) (0)
- Some important sources for subsequent designations of the type species of molluscan genera (1986) (0)
- 'In the quick forge and working-house of thought…' Lancashire and Shropshire and the young Shakespeare (1951) (0)
- Request for the suppression of the generic name "Jumala" Friele,1882 as a name calculated to give offence on religious grounds (1955) (0)
- Application for a ruling that works credited to S. A. Renier as of the dates 1804 and 1807 were not published within the meaning of article 25 of the "Regles." (1954) (0)
- A short account of the recently discovered copy of Edward Hall's "Union of the noble houses of Lancaster and York", notable for its manuscript additions (1940) (0)
- Part N, Mollusca 6, vol. 1, ch. 3, p. 225–393 (1969) (0)
- Renaming primary homonyms after generic reallocation (1942) (0)
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