Kenneth J. Boss* (1935-12-05 - 2014-05-18) person
Names for this agent
- Dr. Kenneth J. Boss
- Kenneth J. Boss (preferred)
- Boss, K. J. (author)
- K. J. Boss (second author)
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- student of William J. Clench
- Ron J. Etter student of Kenneth J. Boss
- Gary Rosenberg student of Kenneth J. Boss
- Mala (21 records) in years 1961-1985
Collecting Event Map
- Bivalvia: Corbiculidae (1 record) in year 1985
- Bivalvia: Myidae (1 record) in year 1982
- Bivalvia: Pharidae (2 records) in years 1972-1984
- Bivalvia: Tellinidae (1 record) in year 1965
- Bivalvia: Unionidae (13 records) in years 1961-1985
- Gastropoda: Ampullariidae (1 record) in year 1985
- Gastropoda: Philomycidae (1 record) in year 1961
- Polyplacophora: [no family] (1 record) in year 1970
- Not a preparator of any material in MCZbase
- 23 identifications for 23 Malacology cataloged items
- 1 identifications for 1 Invertebrate Paleontology cataloged items
- None
- Boss, K. J. 1972. Minute Jamaican prosobranch gastropods: Stoastoma and its congeners. Breviora 393:1–13.
- Boss, K. J. 1968. New species of Vesicomyidae from the Gulf of Darien, Caribbean Sea (Bivalvia; Mollusca). Bulletin of Marine Science 18(3):731–748. 3 citations
- Boss, K. J. 1971. Critical estimate of the number of recent Mollusca. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 3(40):81–135.
- Boss, K. J. 1998. Richard Irwin Johnson. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 5:III–IX.
- Boss, K. J. and A. S. Merrill. 1965. The family Pandoridae in the Western Atlantic. Johnsonia 4(44):181–215.
- Boss, K. J. 1966. The subfamily Tellininae in the Western Atlantic: The genus Tellina (Part I). Johnsonia 4(45):217–272.
- Boss, K. J. and W. J. Clench. 1967. Notes on Pleurobema collina (Conrad) from the James River, Virginia. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 3(37):45–52. 1 citation
- Boss, K. J. 1964. New species of Tellina from the western Atlantic. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 2(29):309–324. 3 citations
- Boss, K. J. 1977. Monograph of Iacra (Bivalvia: Semelidae). Occasional Papers on Mollusks 4(57):189–225. 2 citations
- Boss, K. J. and A. S. Merrill. 1984. Radular configuration and the taxonomic hierarchy in the Architectonicidae (Gastropoda). Occasional Papers on Mollusks 4(66):349–411.
- Boss, K. J. and A. S. Merrill. 1984. Notes on Acutitectonica (Architectonicidae) with a description of a new species, A. sindermanni, from Brazil. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 4(65):333–347. 2 citations
- Boss, K. J. and M. K. Jacobson. 1975. Catalogue of the taxa of the subfamily Proserpininae (Helicinidae: Prosobranchia). Occasional Papers on Mollusks 4 (52):93-102 8 citations
- Boss, K. J. and M. K. Jacobson. 1975. Felipe Poey with a catalogue of the Mollusca described by him. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 4(53):105–132. 4 citations
- Bieler, R., A. S. Merrill, and K. J. Boss. 1985. Pseudotorina bullisi, new species (Gastropoda: Architectonicidae) from subtropical western Atlantic. The Nautilus 99(4):139–141. 1 citation
- Boss, K. J. 1972. The genus Semele in the western Atlantic (Semelidae: Bivalvia). Johnsonia 5(49):1–32.
- Boss, K. J. 1971. Review of Kathleen Yerger Johnstone. 1970. Collecting Seashells. Grosset and Dunlap, 198 pp., 6 colored plates, many figures. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 3(40): 136.
- Boss, K. J. and R. Petit. 1989. Searles V. Wood's "Monograph of the Crag Mollusca" (1848-1882) with notes on the generic name Astartella. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 5(68):145–153.
- Boss, K. J. and W. J. Clench. 1967. The Henry G. Frampton collection of Florida Liguus. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 3(35): 36.
- 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.
- Boss, K. J. and A. R. Kabat. 1992. An indexed catalogue of publications on molluscan type specimens. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 5(69):157–336.
- Boss, K. J. and R. D. Turner. 1980. The giant white clam from the Galapagos Rift, Calyptogena magnifica species novum. Malacologia 20(1):161–194. 1 citation
- Starobogatov, Y. I. 1992. Generic composition of the family Viviparidae : (Gastropoda pectinibranchia vivipariformes). Special Occasional Publication 10:1–25.
- Boss, K. J. 1970. Fimbria and its lucinoid affinities (Mollusca; Bivalvia). Breviora 350:1–16.
- Boss, K. J. 1972. Review of Graham, Alastair. 1971. British prosobranch and other operculate gastropod molluscs. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 3(43): 236.
- Boss, K. J. and M. K. Jacobson. 1974. Monograph of the genus Lucidella in Cuba (Prosobranchia: Helicinidae). Occasional Papers on Mollusks 4(48):1–27. 5 citations
- Boss, K. J. and A. R. Kabat. 1997. Addendum to "An indexed catalogue of publications on molluscan type specimens" (1992). Occasional Papers on Mollusks 5 (70):337-370
- Boss, K. J. and M. K. Jacobson. 1973. Monograph of the genus Alcadia in Cuba (Mollusca: Prosobranchia: Helicinidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 145(7):311–358. 34 citations
- Boss, K. J. 1969. The subfamily Tellininae in South African waters (Bivalvia, Mollusca). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 138(4):81–162.
- Boss, K. J. and R. D. Turner. 1962. The genus Lithophaga in the Western Atlantic. Johnsonia 4(41):81–116.
- Boss, K. J. 1968. The subfamily Tellininae in the Western Atlantic: The genera Tellina (Part II) and Tellidora. Johnsonia 4(46):273–344.
- Boss, K. J. 1977. Review of Habe, Tadashige. 1977. Systematics of Mollusca in Japan. Bivalvia and Scaphopoda. Tokyo, 372 pp., 72 pls. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 4(57): 228.
- Jacobson M. K. and K. J. Boss. 1973. The Jamaican land shells described by C. B. Adams. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 3(47):305–520. 486 citations
- Boss, K. J. 1967. A new species of Vesicomya from the Caribbean Sea (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Vesicomyidae). Breviora 266:1–6.
- Boss, K. J. 1965. Catalogue of the family Pandoridae (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Occasional Papers on Mollusks 2(33):413–424. 1 citation
- Boss, K. J. 1973. Review of Evans, J. G. 1972. Land snails in archaeology. With special reference to the British Isles. Seminar Press. London and New York. xii + 436 pp., 145 figures, 17 tables. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 3(47): 520.
- Boss, K. J. 1989. Review of Carol M. Lalli and Ronald W. Gilmer. 1989. Pelagic snails. The biology of holoplanktonic gastropod mollusks. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, pp. i-xiv, 1-259, 25 tables, 76 text-figures, 16 color figures. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 5(68):154–156.
- Boss, K. J. 1972. Review of Stanley, Steven M. 1970. Relation of shell form to life habits of the Bivalvia (Mollusca). Occasional Papers on Mollusks 3(41):174–176.
- Boss, K. J. and V. C. Kenk. 1964. Anatomy and relationships of Temnoconcha brasiliana Dall. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 2(30):325–343.
- Boss, K. J., J. Rosewater, and F. A. Ruhoff. 1968. The Zoological Taxa of William Healey Dall. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 287:1–427. 92 citations
- Boss, K. J. and J. J. Parodiz. 1977. Paleospecies of Neotropical ampullariids and notes on other fossil non-marine South American gastropods. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 46(9):107–127. 9 citations
- Bullock, R. C. and K. J. Boss. 1971. Non-specificity of host-selection in the ectoparasitic snail Odostomia (Menestho) Bisuturalis (Say) (Gastropoda: Pyramidellidae). Breviora 363:1–7.
- Kabat, A. R. and K. J. Boss. 1997. Karl Eduard von Martens (1831-1904): His Life and Works. Department of Mollusks, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, MA. 417 pp.
- Boss, K. J. and M. K. Jacobson. 1974. Catalogue of the taxa of Lucidella (Prosobranchia: Helicinidae). Occasional Papers on Mollusks 4(49):29–38. 9 citations
- 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. 65 citations
- Boss, K. J. 1969. The subfamily Tellininae in the Western Atlantic: The genus Strigilla. Johnsonia 4(47):345–368. 1 citation
- Boss, K. J. 1999. Linnaeus' missing molluscan references found. Occasional Papers on Mollusks 6(78):106–108.
- Boss, K. J. and M. K. Jacobson. 1975. Proserpine snails of the Greater Antilles (Prosobranchia; Helicinidae). Occasional Papers on Mollusks 4(51):53–90. 8 citations
- Boss, K. J. and M. K. Jacobson. 1973. Monograph of Ceratodiscus (Archaeogastropoda; Helicinidae). Occasional Papers on Mollusks 3(45):253–279. 2 citations
- Shileĭko, A. A. 1985. The system of the order Geophila (Helicida) (Gastropoda, Pulmonata) [An Edited Translation]. Special Occasional Publication 6:1–45.
- Chernogorenko, E. V. 1992. On the species composition of viviparids (Gastropoda, Viviparidae) in Europe and western Asia. Special Occasional Publication 11:1–26.
- Bullock, R. C. and K. J. Boss. 1971. Lithophaga aristata in the shell-plates of chitons (Mollusca). Breviora 369:1–10.
- Skarlato, O. A. and Y. I. Starobogatov. 1985. General evolutionary patterns and the system of the class Bivalvia [An Edited Translation]. Special Occasional Publication 5:1–67.
- Pilsbry, H. A. and K. J. Boss. 1916. The Sessile Barnacles (Cirripedia) Contained in the Collections of the U.S. National Museum; Including a Monograph of the American Species. Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 93:1–359. 3 citations