Charles Wyville Thomson

Charles Wyville Thomson

Sir Charles Wyville Thomson (sometimes spelled Thompson), (1830-1882) Scottish zoologist

• Director of Scientific Civilian Staff, H.M.S. Challenger voyage

IPNI standard form: C.W.Thomson

Taxon names authored

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• 28 taxon names authored by Charles Wyville Thomson

Eponyms

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• 3 eponyms of Charles Wyville Thomson

Publications

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1858

• Thomson, W. 1858: Description of the fossil. IN MacAdam, James, On a new fossil cirripede. Annals and magazine of natural history 3 1(5): 323-325. BHL Reference page. 

1865

• Thomson, C.W. 1865. On the Embryogeny of Antedon rosaceus, Linck (Comatula rosacea of Lamarck). Philosophical transactions of the Royal Societ. 155: 513–544. BHL. Reference page. 

1872

• Thomson, C.W. 1872. On the Echinidea of the 'Porcupine' Deep-Sea Dredging-Expeditions. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. 20(137): 491–497. BHL. Reference page. 

1873

• Thomson, C.W. 1873. The Depths of the Sea. Macmillan and Co.: London: 527 pp. BHL. Reference page. 

1876

• Thomson, C.W. 1876. Notice of new living crinoids belonging to the Apiocrinidae. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 13(6): 47–55. BHL Reference page. 
• Thomson, C.W. 1876. On the pecularities in the mode of propagation of certain echinoderms of the Southern Sea. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 13(6): 55-79. BHL Reference page. 

1878

• Thomson, C.W. 1878. The voyage of the "Challenger" : the Atlantic : a preliminary account of the general results of the exploring voyage of H.M.S. "Challenger" during the year 1873 and the early part of the year 1876. Harper, New York. Vol. 1, 399 pp. BHL; vol. 2, 340 pp. BHL Reference page.