Richard E. ("Dick") Petit (1931–2013), American malacologist.

Taxon names authored

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• 0 taxon names authored by Richard E. Petit

Publications

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• Petit, R.E. 1988: Axelella, new name for Olssonella Petit, 1970, a preoccupied taxon (Mollusca: Cancellariacea). Nautilus 102(3): 130. BHL Reference page. 
• Bieler, R.; Petit, R.E. 2005: Catalogue of Recent and fossil taxa of the family Architectonicidae Gray, 1850 (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 1101(1): 1–119. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1101.1.1 . ISBN 1-877407-30-5 (paperback) ISBN 1-877407-31-3 (Online edition). Reference page. 
• Petit, R.E. 2006. Notes on Sowerby’s The genera of recent and fossil shells (1821–1834). Archives of natural history 33(1): 71–89. DOI: 10.3366/anh.2006.33.1.71 Reference page. 
• Coan, E.V., Petit, R.E. & Zelaya, D.G. 2011. Authorship and date of a key South American paper by Phillip P. King (1832). The Nautilus, 125(2): 86–88. BHL Reference page. 
• Petit, R.E. 2012. Remarks on “Two new species of Tornidae (Caenogastropoda, Rissooidea) from Espírito Santo, Brazil”, by Luiz Ricardo Simone (ZooKeys 238: 77–85, 2012) and a plea for improvement in ZooKeys editorial policy. ZooKeys 255: 103–109. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.255.4548 Reference page. 

References

• Wolfe, Douglas A. 2014. Richard E. Petit, 1931–2013: A Brief Account of his Malacological Contributions. Journal of the South Carolina Academy of Science 12: 14–19. PDF