Harry Lee (shell collector)

Harry Lee is an American shell collector. He has named 36 species and has had 18 others named for him.[1][2] He is considered one of the top amateur experts in the field of mollusks.[3] He is donating his collection, one of the world's largest, to the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida.[3]

Lee lives in Citrus County, Florida and is married with two children.[2]

Selected publications
  • Lee, Harry G. (2009). Marine shells of northeast Florida. Jacksonville Beach, Florida: Jacksonville Shell Club. ISBN 978-0-9671254-0-4. OCLC 434869184.
  • Lyons, William G., and Harry G. Lee. "Fasciolaria gigantea Kiener, 1840 (currently Triplofusus giganteus; Mollusca, Gastropoda, Fasciolariidae): the correct name for the horse conch of the southeastern United States and Mexico." The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 75, no. 1 (2018): 195-203.
  • Lee, Harry G. "Genera of American Strombid Gastropods (Gastropoda: Strombidae) and Remarks on Their Phylogený." Veliger 49, no. 4 (2007): 256-264.
  • Lee, Harry G. "Partulid snails, their collectors, and a prodigious dynasty of French naturalists." American Conchologist 40, no. 1 (2012): 10-19.
  • Lee, Harry G. "Shelled land snails of the Calusa shell mound, Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge, Sanibel Island, and of Lee County, Florida." Florida Scientist (2014): 2-14.

References
  1. "The man behind the world's largest private shell collection". Florida Museum. June 27, 2018.
  2. Pittman, Craig (September 13, 2019). "Florida man with largest private shell collection now ready to give it away". Tampa Bay Times.
  3. Strickland, Sandy (February 5, 2020). "Jacksonville physician who traveled the globe seeking shells is donating them to UF museum". The Florida Times-Union. Retrieved 2021-04-22.

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