Richard Eugene Petit

Richard ("Dick") Eugene Petit (1931–2013), U.S. malacologist.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 1 taxon names authored by Richard Eugene Petit

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1988

• Petit, R.E. 1988. Axelella, new name for Olssonella Petit, 1970, a preoccupied taxon (Mollusca: Cancellariacea). Nautilus 102(3): 130. BHL Reference page. 

2005

• Bieler, R. & Petit, R.E. 2005. Catalogue of Recent and fossil taxa of the family Architectonicidae Gray, 1850 (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 1101(1): 1–119. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1101.1.1 Reference page. 

2006

• Petit, R.E. 2006. Notes on Sowerby’s The genera of recent and fossil shells (1821–1834). Archives of Natural History 33(1): 71–89. DOI: 10.3366/anh.2006.33.1.71 Reference page. 

2007

• Kabat, A.R. & Petit, R.E. 2007. Glenn Robert Webb (1918–1999), his molluscan taxa, and his journal Gastropodia (1952–1994). Zootaxa 1589: 1–21. Abstract & excerpt ResearchGate Reference page. 

2009

• Petit, R.E. 2009. George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and Molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2189.1.1 . PDF (WoRMS). Reference page. 

2010

• Petit, R.E. 2010. The magellanic Mollusca of Rochebrune and Mabille. Zootaxa 2723: 41–65. Preview DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2723.1.2 Reference page. 

2011

• Bieler, R. & Petit, R.E. 2011. Catalogue of Recent and fossil “worm-snail” taxa of the families Vermetidae, Siliquariidae, and Turritellidae (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda). Zootaxa 2948: 1–103. Preview PDF DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2948.1.1 Reference page. 
• Coan, E.V., Petit, R.E. & Zelaya, D.G. 2011. Authorship and date of a key South American paper by Phillip P. King (1832). The Nautilus 125(2): 86–88. BHL Reference page. 

2012

• Bieler, R. & Petit, R.E. 2012. Molluscan taxa in the publications of the Museum Godeffroy of Hamburg, with a discussion of the Godeffroy Sales Catalogs (1864–1884), the Journal des Museum Godeffroy (1873–1910), and a history of the museum. Zootaxa 3511: 1–80. Preview PDF Reference page. 
• Petit, R.E. 2012. Remarks on “Two new species of Tornidae (Caenogastropoda, Rissooidea) from Espírito Santo, Brazil”, by Luiz Ricardo Simone (ZooKeys 238: 77–85, 2012) and a plea for improvement in ZooKeys editorial policy. ZooKeys 255: 103–109. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.255.4548 Reference page. 
• Petit, R.E. 2012. John Edward Gray (1800–1875): his malacological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 3214: 1–125. Preview Reference page. 

References

• Wolfe, D.A. 2014. Richard E. Petit, 1931–2013: A Brief Account of his Malacological Contributions. Journal of the South Carolina Academy of Science 12: 14–19. PDF