Richard I. Johnson* (1925-01-01 - 2020-07-01) person
Malacologist, associated with MCZ Mollusk department Unio collection. Harvard graduate 1951, after serving in World War II.
Names for this agent
- Richard Irwin Johnson
- Richard I. Johnson (preferred)
- Johnson, R. I. (author)
- R. I. Johnson (second author)
- Dick Johnson (aka)
- No media showing this agent
- None to other agents
- None from other agents
- Mala (484 records) in years 1940-2003
- Orn (3 records) in years 1983-1994
- IZ (1 record) none known to year
- All
Collecting Event Map
- Aves: Emberizidae (2 records) in years 1985-1994
- Aves: Muscicapidae (1 record) in year 1983
- Bivalvia: Anomiidae (2 records) in year 1964
- Bivalvia: Arcidae (1 record) none known to year
- Bivalvia: Cardiidae (2 records) in years 1964-1980
- Bivalvia: Carditidae (1 record) in year 1964
- Bivalvia: Corbiculidae (1 record) in year 1983
- Bivalvia: Donacidae (1 record) in year 1963
- Bivalvia: Isognomonidae (4 records) in years 1958-1960
- Bivalvia: Mactridae (4 records) in years 1964-1980
- Bivalvia: Myidae (1 record) in year 1941
- Bivalvia: Mytilidae (7 records) in years 1941-1964
- Bivalvia: Nuculidae (1 record) none known to year
- Bivalvia: Ostreidae (2 records) none known to year
- Bivalvia: Pectinidae (2 records) none known to year
- Bivalvia: Pharidae (1 record) in year 1945
- Bivalvia: Tellinidae (3 records) in years 1941-1958
- Bivalvia: Unionidae (256 records) in years 1940-2003
- Bivalvia: Veneridae (6 records) in years 1945-1964
- Bivalvia: Yoldiidae (1 record) none known to year
- Bivalvia: [no family] (2 records) in year 1965
- Cephalopoda: Spirulidae (1 record) in year 1958
- Gastropoda: Ampullariidae (18 records) in year 1962
- Gastropoda: Ancylidae (1 record) none known to year
- Gastropoda: Bulimulidae (3 records) in years 1943-1958
- Gastropoda: Calyptraeidae (5 records) in years 1945-1964
- Gastropoda: Cerithiidae (1 record) in year 1955
- Gastropoda: Cionellidae (2 records) in year 1940
- Gastropoda: Clausiliidae (1 record) in year 1963
- Gastropoda: Cypraeidae (1 record) in year 1952
- Gastropoda: Discidae (3 records) in years 1943-1945
- Gastropoda: Epitoniidae (3 records) in year 1958
- Gastropoda: Fasciolariidae (1 record) in year 1958
- Gastropoda: Fissurellidae (1 record) in year 1945
- Gastropoda: Gastrodontidae (1 record) in year 1940
- Gastropoda: Haliotidae (1 record) in year 1945
- Gastropoda: Helicellidae (2 records) in years 1945-1950
- Gastropoda: Helicidae (16 records) in years 1945-1950
- Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae (2 records) in year 1955
- Gastropoda: Littorinidae (15 records) in years 1940-1964
- Gastropoda: Lottiidae (3 records) none known to year
- Gastropoda: Melongenidae (3 records) in year 1964
- Gastropoda: Muricidae (10 records) in years 1940-1964
- Gastropoda: Nassariidae (3 records) in year 1945
- Gastropoda: Naticidae (4 records) in years 1945-1952
- Gastropoda: Neritidae (5 records) in years 1952-1958
- Gastropoda: Patellidae (2 records) in year 1945
- Gastropoda: Phasianellidae (1 record) in year 1945
- Gastropoda: Planaxidae (1 record) in year 1958
- Gastropoda: Planorbidae (4 records) in year 1955
- Gastropoda: Pleuroceridae (6 records) in years 1944-1964
- Gastropoda: Polygyridae (6 records) in years 1943-1944
- Gastropoda: Pomatiasidae (2 records) in years 1945-1950
- Gastropoda: Poteriidae (1 record) none known to year
- Gastropoda: Pyramidellidae (1 record) none known to year
- Gastropoda: Spiraxidae (1 record) in year 1950
- Gastropoda: Subulinidae (1 record) in year 1950
- Gastropoda: Tegulidae (1 record) in year 1958
- Gastropoda: Tonnidae (1 record) in year 1958
- Gastropoda: Trochidae (5 records) in years 1945-1950
- Gastropoda: Turbinidae (3 records) in year 1958
- Gastropoda: Turritellidae (2 records) in year 1952
- Gastropoda: Viviparidae (16 records) in years 1940-1964
- Gastropoda: Zonitidae (3 records) in years 1945-1950
- Malacostraca: Xanthidae (1 record) none known to year
- Polyplacophora: Chaetopleuridae (1 record) none known to year
- Polyplacophora: Chitonidae (1 record) in year 1952
- Scaphopoda: [no family] (1 record) in year 1952
- : [no family] (20 records) in years 1950-1964
- Not a preparator of any material in MCZbase
- 80 identifications for 80 Malacology cataloged items
- None
- Johnson, R. I. 1970. The systematics and zoogeography of the Unionidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) of the southern Atlantic Slope region. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 140(6):263–449. 2 citations
- Johnson, R. I. 1983. Margaritifera marrianae, a new species of Unionacea (Bivalvia: Margaritiferidae) from the Mobile-Alabama-Coosa and Escambia River systems, Alabama. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 4(62):299–304. 4 citations
- Johnson, R. I. 1975. Unique purple shell of the paper nautilus (Argonauta argo Linnaeus). Occasional Papers on Mollusks 4(52):103–104. 1 citation
- Johnson, R. I. 1975. William A. Marsh, his introduced taxa of Unionidae of fresh water mussels. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 4(54):145–147. 5 citations
- Johnson, R. I. 1984. The first popular shell book. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 4(66): 412.
- Johnson, R. I. 1998. The myth of Octopus giganteus Verrill, 1897: A whale of a story. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 5(76):456–457.
- Johnson, R. I. 1964. The Recent Mollusca of Augustus Addison Gould. Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 239:1–182. 738 citations
- Johnson, R. I. 1971. The types and figured specimens of Unionacea (Mollusca: Bivalvia) in the British Museum (Natural History). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 20(3):73–108. 16 citations
- Johnson, R. I. 1978. Systematics and zoogeography of Plagiola (= Dysnomia = Epioblasma), an almost extinct genus of freshwater mussles (Bivalvia: Unionidae) from Middle North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 148(6):239–321. 17 citations
- Johnson, R. I. 1980. Zoogeography of North American Unionacea (Mollusca:Bivalvia) north of the maximum Pleistocene glaciation. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 149(2):77–189. 17 citations
- Johnson, R. I. 1954. Supplement to Jesse Wedgwood Mighels (Occasional Papers, no. 14). Occasional Papers on Mollusks 1(18):446–447. 1 citation
- Johnson, R. I. 1973. Distribution of Hydrobiidae, a family of fresh and brackish water gastropods, in peninsular Florida. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 3(46):281–303.
- Johnson, R. I. 1973. Review of Clarke, Arthur H. 1973. The freshwater molluscs of the Canadian Interior Basin. Malacologia, 13 (1-2): 1-509. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 3(46): 304.
- Johnson, R. I. 1974. Thomas Wyatt and Edgar Allan Poe, a pair of conchological plagiarists. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 4(50):50–52.
- Johnson, R. I. 1977. Monograph of the genus Medionidus (Bivalvia: Unionidae) mostly from the Apalachicolan Region, southeastern United States. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 4(56):161–187. 8 citations
- Johnson, R. I. 1977. The Carnegie Museum, its collections and curators of mollusks. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 4(58):242–244.
- Johnson, R. I. 1949. Jesse Wedgwood Mighels with a bibliography and a catalogue of his species. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 1(14):213–231. 63 citations
- Johnson, R. I. 1967. Illustrations of all the mollusks described by Berlin Hart and Samuel Hart Wright. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 3(35):1–35. 46 citations
- Johnson, R. I. 1967. Additions to the unionid fauna of the Gulf drainage of Alabama, Georgia and Florida (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Breviora 270:1–21.
- Johnson, R. I. 1975. World's largest shell of the paper nautilus (Argonauta argo Linnaeus). Occasional Papers on Mollusks 4(51):91–92. 1 citation
- Johnson, R. I. 1946. Joseph Pitty Couthouy - A bibliography and catalogue of his species. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 1(5):33–40. 21 citations
- Johnson, R. I. 1959. The types of Corbiculidae and Sphaeriidae (Mollusca: Pelecypoda) in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and a bio-bibliographic sketch of Temple Prime, an early specialist of the group. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 120(4):429–479. 363 citations
- Johnson, R. I. 1972. Illustrations of all of the mollusks described by Lorraine Screven Frierson. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 3(41):137–173. 17 citations
- Johnson, R. I. 1981. Stanley Truman Brooks, a bibliography of his work on mollusks with a catalogue of his molluscan taxa. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 4(59):267–268.
- Johnson, R. I. 1984. Dates of publication of the molluscan portion (including the brachiopods) of the "Fauna del Regno di Napoli" (1829-1886) by Oronzio Gabriele Costa and Achille Costa. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 4(64):330–332.
- Johnson, R. I. 1999. On the provenance of certain books in the Department of Mollusks: Alas, a correction and additional notes on John Clarkson Jay, M.D. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 6(78):89–91.
- Johnson, R. I. 1999. On "The Chambered Nautilus" by Oliver Wendell Holmes: Redux. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 6(78):92–95.
- Johnson, R. I. 2002. The marvelous, monstrous, mythical, marine mollusk, Cochlea sarmatica Thevet, 1575. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 6(81):149–163. 1 citation
- Kabat, A. R. and R. I. Johnson. 2015. Kenneth Jay Boss (1935–2014). Breviora 544:1–20.
- Johnson, R. I. 1956. The types of Naiades (Mollusca: Unionidae) in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 115(4):100–142. 471 citations
- Johnson, R. I. 1984. A new mussel, Lampsilis (Lampsilis) fullerkati (Bivalvia: Unionidae) from Lake Waccamaw, Columbus County, North Carolina, with a list of the other unionid species of the Waccamaw River system. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 4(63):305–319. 5 citations
- Johnson, R. I. 1998. A new mussel, Potamilis metnecktayi (Bivalvia: Unionidae) from the Rio Grande System, Mexico and Texas with notes on Mexican Disconaias. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 5(76):427–455. 8 citations
- Johnson, R. I. 1989. Molluscan taxa of Addison Emery Verrill and Katharine Jeannette Bush, including those introduced by Sanderson Smith and Alpheus Hyatt Verrill. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 5(67):1–143. 15 citations
- Johnson, R. I. 1998. On "The Chambered Nautilus" by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 5(76):458–464.
- Johnson, R. I. 2002. Albert Gallatin Wetherby: Malacology at the Cincinnati Society of Natural History and in Ohio (1843-1896). Occasional Papers on Mollusks 6(79):109–133. 10 citations
- Johnson, R. I. and H. B. Baker. 1973. The types of Unionacea (Mollusca: Bivalvia) in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 125:145–186. 44 citations
- Clarke, A. H. and R. I. Johnson. 1983. A new spiny mussel, Elliptio (Canthyria) steinstansia (Bivalvia: Unionidae), from the Tar River, North Carolina. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 4(61):289–298. 9 citations
- Johnson, R. I. 1996. Types of land and freshwater mollusks from the Hawaiian islands in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 155(4):159–214. 892 citations
- Johnson, R. I. 1959. The types of Corbiculidae and Sphaeriidae (Mollusca: Pelecypoda) in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and a bio-bibliographic sketch of Temple Prime, an early specialist of the group. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 120(4):429–479.
- Johnson, R. I. 1975. R. Ellsworth Call with bibliography of his works on mollusks and a catalogue of his taxa. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 4(54):133–144. 35 citations
- Johnson, R. I. 1947. Lampsilis cariosa Say and Lampsilis ochracea Say. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 1(12):145–156. 6 citations
- Johnson, R. I. 1999. Taxa omitted from "Unionacea" by Fritz Haas, 1969. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 6(77): 66.
- Johnson, R. I. 2002. The mollusk collection of the Boston Society of Natural History and its disposition. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 6(80): 148.
- Johnson, R. I. 2002. The type material of Cypraea semiplota Mighels, 1845 (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae). Occasional Papers on Mollusks 6(81):164–168.
- Johnson, R. I. 2002. First colored illustrations of shells in the United States. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 6(81): 174.
- Johnson, R. I. 2002. Earliest American natural history lithograph. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 6(79):133–134.
- Boss, K. J. and R. I. Johnson. 1972. The fresh-water, brackish, and non-Jamaican land mollusks described by C.B. Adams. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 3(43):193–236. 89 citations
- Johnson, R. I. 1951. Review of Dezallier D'Argenville 1742: L'Historie Naturelle Eclaircie dans deux de ses parties principales: La Lithologie et La Conchyliologie. Johnsonia 2(30): 288.
- Johnson, R. I. 1973. Heude's molluscan types: or, Asian land and fresh water mollusks, mostly from the People's Republic of China, described by P. M. Heude. Special Occasional Publication 1:1–111. 297 citations
- Johnson, R. I. 1974. Lea's unionid types: or, recent and fossil taxa of Unionacea and Muteiacea introduced by Isaac Lea, including the location of all the extant types. Special Occasional Publication 2:1–159. 15 citations
- Johnson, R. I. 1974. Marshall's unionid types: or, types of recent and fossil Unionacea and Mutelacea introduced by William B. Marshall, including a bibliography of all his writings on mollusks. Special Occasional Publication 3:1–14.
- Johnson, R. I. 1975. Simpson's unionid types and miscellaneous unionid types in the National Museum of Natural History. Special Occasional Publication 4:1–51. 15 citations
- Johnson, R. I. 1975. Cypraea leucodon Broderip, rarest shell? Occasional Papers on Mollusks 4(54): 148.
- Johnson, R. I. 1977. Norman Macdowell Grier, a bibliography of his work on mollusks, with a catalogue of his Unionid taxa. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 4(57):226–227.
- Johnson, R. I. 1997. Comments on "the final report" of a massive search for Lasmigona decorata (Lea, 1852) and Alasmidonta robusta Clarke, 1981 (Bivalvia: Unionidae) from the Carolinas. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 5(71):371–378.
- Johnson, R. I. 2002. On the cunning character of a couple of conchologist collectors, Wesley Newcomb and William Harper Pease. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 6(81):168–173.
- Johnson, R. I. 1999. Unionidae of the Rio Grande (Rio Bravo Del Norte) system of Texas and Mexico. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 6(77):1–66. 10 citations
- Johnson, R. I. 1999. The Duchess, the Brahmin, and the Chank Shell. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 6(78):67–81. 1 citation
- Johnson, R. I. 1999. The Ambonese curiosity cabinet by Georgius Everhardus Rumphius translated, edited, annotated, and with an introduction by E.M. Beekman. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 6(78):96–105.
- Johnson, R. I. 1965. A hitherto overlooked Anodonta (Mollusca: Unionidae) from the Gulf drainage of Florida. Breviora 213:1–7. 4 citations
- Johnson, R. I. 2003. Molluscan taxa and bibliographies of William James Clench and Ruth Dixon Turner. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 158(1):1–46. 614 citations
- Johnson, R. I. 1994. Types of shelled Indo-Pacific mollusks described by W. H. Pease. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 154(1):1–61. 657 citations
- Johnson, R. I. 1981. Recent and fossil Unionacea and Mutelacea (freshwater bivalves) of the Caribbean Islands. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 4(60):269–288. 6 citations
- Johnson, R. I. 1977. Arnold Edward Ortmann, a bibliography of his work on mollusks, with a catalogue of his recent molluscan taxa. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 4:229–244. 8 citations
- Johnson, R. I. 1946. Anodonta implicata Say. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 1(9):109–116. 2 citations
- Johnson, R. I. 1999. On the authorship of the first American conchological manual, John Warren's, "The Conchologist". Occasional Papers on Mollusks 6(78):81–88.
- Johnson, R. I. 2002. Arthur Fairfield Gray (1855-1944), his malacological contributions. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 6(80):135–147. 2 citations
- Johnson, R. I. 1998. On the provenance of certain books in the Department of Mollusks. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 5(76):466–467.
- Johnson, R. I. 1948. A new naiad from Dutch New Guinea. The Nautilus 62(2):47–48. 1 citation
- Johnson, R. I. 1948. Lectotypes for two species of Asiatic Unionidae in the genus Pseudodon. The Nautilus 62(2):48–51. 3 citations
- Johnson, R. I. 1951. A clarification of some Central American Unionidae described by R. A. Philippi. The Nautilus 64(3):77–83. 4 citations
- Boss, K. J. and R. I. Johnson. 1984. Fusconaia collina (Conrad), from the James River, Virginia, an additional note. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 4(63):319–320.