Interestingly, Porcellana
sigsbeiana was named
in honor of Charles Dwight Sigsbee (January 16, 1845
- July 13, 1923) - a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy. Earlier in his
career he was a pioneering oceanographer and hydrographer but is best remembered
as the captain of the USS Maine which exploded in Havana harbor, Cuba in 1898
setting off the events that led up to the start of the Spanish American War.
Along with CDR J. R. Bartlett, LCDR Sigsbee, commanded the research vessel
Blake directing what was arguably the most productive era of research in
marine invertebrate zoology in American history, e.g., Dall (1881, 1886, 1889,
etc).
It is fitting that both naval
officers were honored with eponyms, e.g.,
Cerithiopsis sigsbeana
Dall, 1881; Pecten [now Pectinella] sigsbeei Dall, 1886;
Pleurotoma sigsbei Dall, 1881 (=
Pleurotoma [now Leucosyrinx] verrillii Dall, 1881);
and Solarium [now Solatisonax] sigsbeei Dall, 1889;
in addition to Porcellana
sigsbeiana
Milne-Edwards, 1880 [note the variation in orthography] for the LCDR;
For the CDR Bartlett examples include:
Columbarium
[now Fulgurofusus] bartletti Clench and Aguayo, 1940;
Dentalium [now
Antalis]
bartletti
Henderson, 1920; and
Mangilia bartlettii
Dall, 1889 (= Mangelia [now
Leucosyrinx] inepta E.A. Smith, 1882).
Dall, W.H., 1881. Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of
Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico, and in the Caribbean Sea, 1877-79, by
the United States Coast Survey Steamer Blake. Bulletin of the Museum
of Comparative Zoology 9: 33-144. August. <https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30291117>
Dall, W.H., 1886. Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of
Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78), and in the Caribbean Sea
(1879-80), by the U. S. Coast Survey Steamer Blake. Bulletin of the
Museum of Comparative Zoology 12: 171-318 + pls. 1-9. September.
Dall, W.H., 1889. Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of
Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78) and in the Caribbean Sea
(1879-80), by the by the U.S. Coast Survey Steamer Blake,
Lieut.-Commander C.D. Sigsbee, U.S.N., and Commander J. R. Bartlett, U.S.N.,
commanding. XXIX. Report on the Mollusca. Part 2, Gastropoda and Scaphopoda.
Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 18: 1-492 + pls. 10-40.
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