John Gould Anthony* (1804-05-17 - 1877-05-16) person
American businessman; moved to Cincinnati in 1834 and took up the study of shells, primarily freshwater molluscs. He corresponded with Louis Agassiz, who brought him to the MCZ as curator of the conchology (now malacology) collection in 1863, a position which he held until his death in 1877. He participated in the 1865-1866 Thayer Expedition to Brazil.
Names for this agent
- John Gould Anthony
- John Gould Anthony (preferred)
- Anthony, J. G. (author)
- J. G. Anthony (second author)
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- Mala (431 records) in years 1840-1868
- IP (17 records) in year 1844
- IZ (2 records) none known to year
Collecting Event Map
- Anthozoa: Zaphrentidae (1 record) none known to year
- Asteroidea: Asterinidae (2 records) none known to year
- Bivalvia: Arcidae (1 record) none known to year
- Bivalvia: Carditidae (1 record) none known to year
- Bivalvia: Corbulidae (1 record) none known to year
- Bivalvia: Mutellidae (3 records) none known to year
- Bivalvia: Pisidiidae (1 record) none known to year
- Bivalvia: Unionidae (105 records) none known to year
- Gastropoda: Achatinellidae (1 record) none known to year
- Gastropoda: Achatinidae (2 records) none known to year
- Gastropoda: Ampullariidae (2 records) none known to year
- Gastropoda: Ancylidae (2 records) none known to year
- Gastropoda: Architectonicidae (2 records) none known to year
- Gastropoda: Bulimulidae (2 records) none known to year
- Gastropoda: Camaenidae (1 record) none known to year
- Gastropoda: Cerithiidae (2 records) none known to year
- Gastropoda: Clausiliidae (1 record) none known to year
- Gastropoda: Cypraeidae (2 records) none known to year
- Gastropoda: Endodontidae (2 records) none known to year
- Gastropoda: Gastrocoptidae (1 record) none known to year
- Gastropoda: Haplotrematidae (1 record) none known to year
- Gastropoda: Helicellidae (2 records) none known to year
- Gastropoda: Helicidae (3 records) none known to year
- Gastropoda: Helicinidae (2 records) in year 1868
- Gastropoda: Lymnaeidae (1 record) none known to year
- Gastropoda: Muricidae (2 records) in year 1859
- Gastropoda: Neocyclotidae (1 record) none known to year
- Gastropoda: Neritidae (2 records) none known to year
- Gastropoda: Pachychilidae (1 record) none known to year
- Gastropoda: Planorbidae (2 records) none known to year
- Gastropoda: Pleuroceridae (233 records) in years 1853-1860
- Gastropoda: Septariidae (1 record) none known to year
- Gastropoda: Spiraxidae (1 record) none known to year
- Gastropoda: Subulinidae (1 record) none known to year
- Gastropoda: Succineidae (3 records) none known to year
- Gastropoda: Thiaridae (2 records) none known to year
- Gastropoda: Turbinidae (1 record) none known to year
- Gastropoda: Turritellidae (1 record) in year 1861
- Gastropoda: Velutinidae (1 record) none known to year
- Gastropoda: Viviparidae (18 records) in year 1840
- Rhynchonellata: Platystrophiidae (8 records) none known to year
- Trilobita: Calymenidae (2 records) in year 1844
- : [no family] (26 records) in year 1853
- Not a preparator of any material in MCZbase
- 2 identifications for 2 Malacology cataloged items
- 1 identifications for 1 Invertebrate Paleontology cataloged items
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- Anthony, J. G. 1866. Descriptions of new American fresh water shells. American Journal of Conchology 2:144–147. 12 citations
- Anthony, J. G. 1840. Descriptions of two new species of Anculotus. Boston Journal of Natural History 3:394–395. 10 citations
- Anthony, J. G. and A. A. Gould. 1850. Dr. A. A. Gould presented descriptions of sixteen species of Melania, which had been regarded as new by Mr. J. G. Anthony, and which he had described at the request of that gentleman, who was prevented from doing so by disease of the eyes. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 3:359–363. 16 citations
- Anthony, J. G. 1840. Descriptions of three new species of shells. Boston Journal of Natural History 3:278–279. 12 citations
- Anthony, J. G. 1855. Descriptions of new species of Ancylus and Anculosa, from the western states of North America. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York 6:158–160. 4 citations
- Anthony, J. G. 1865. Descriptions of two new species of Monocondylœa. American Journal of Conchology 1(3):205–206. 1 citation
- Anthony, J. G. 1865. Descriptions of new species of North American Unionidae. American Journal of Conchology 1(2):155–164. 28 citations
- Anthony, J. G. 1854. Descriptions of New Fluviatile Shells of the Genus MELANIA Lam., from the Western States of North America. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York 6:80–130. 85 citations
- Anthony, J. G. 1865. Descriptions of two new species of Goniobasis. American Journal of Conchology 1: 36. 2 citations
- Anthony, J. G. 1860. Descriptions of New Species of American Fluviatile Gasteropods. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 12:55–72. 111 citations
- Anthony, J. G. 1865. Descriptions of a New Exotic Melania. American Journal of Conchology 1: 207. 3 citations