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SOWERBY FAMILY The Sowerbys were a British family of Naturalists , illustrators, Botanist s, and Zoologist s who showed a remarkable lack of imagination in the naming of their sons from the second generation on.
The vast majority of their work was on Mollusc s and their Systematics . Together, they introduced numerous (sometimes the number 5000 is mentioned) Taxonomic names. Because they all extensively published in Conchology , it is even for professional taxonomists not easy to unravel who of the three "G.B. Sowerby"s is meant by a particular citation. Even with a date attribution is not obvious: e.g. "Sowerby, 1870" might refer to either George II or George III. REFERENCES
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