Isaac Lea

Isaac Lea (1792–1886), U.S. malacologist.

Isaac Lea

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 16 taxon names authored by Isaac Lea

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1827

• Lea, I. 1827. Description of six new species of the genus Unio, embracing the anatomy of the oviduct of one of them, together with some anatomical observations on the genus. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. New series, 3: 259-273, pls 3-6. BHL Reference page. 

1831

• Lea, I. 1831. Description of a new genus of the family Melaniana of Lamarck. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society (NS) 4: 122–123, plate 15. BHL Reference page. 

1834

• Lea, I. 1834. Observations on the naïades; and descriptions of new species of that, and other families. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. (NS) 5: 23–119, pls 1–19.

1840

• Lea, I. 1840. Descriptions of new fresh water and land shells. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 1(13): 284–289. BHL Reference page. 

1841

• Lea, I. 1841. New Fresh Water and Land Shells. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 2: 11-15 BHL 30-35 BHL. Reference page. 

1843

• Lea, I. 1843. New Fresh Water and Land Shells (continued). Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 2: 241-243 BHL. Reference page. 

1850

• Lea I.; Lea H.C. 1850: Description of a new genus of the family of Melaniana, and of many new species of the genus Melania, chiefly collected by Hugh Cuming, Esq., during his zoological voyage in the East, and now first described. Proceedings of the Zoological Society London 18: 179–246. BHL Reference page. 

1852

• Lea, I. 1852. On the genus Acostaea of d'Orbigny, a fresh water Lamellibranchia. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia ser.2.2(2): 125-131 BHL

1853

• Lea, I. 1853. Description of a fossil Saurian of the New Red Sandstone Formation of Pennsylvania; with some account of that formation. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia ser.2.2(3): 185-202 BHL
• Lea, I. 1853. On some new fossil molluscs in the Carboniferous slates of the anthracite seams of the Wilkesbarre Coal Formation. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia ser.2.2(3): 203-206 BHL

1862

• Lea, I. 1862. Descriptions of twenty-five new species of Unionidae from Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tenessee and Florida. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 13: 38-41 BHL Reference page. 
• Lea, I. 1862. Description of a new species of Neritina, from Coosa River, Alabama. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 13: 55 BHL Reference page. 
• Lea, I. 1862. Descriptions of two new species of Anodontae, from Arctic America. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 13: 56 BHL Reference page. 
• Lea, I. 1862. Descriptions of twelve new species of Uniones, from Alabama. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 13: 59-60 BHL Reference page. 
• Lea, I. 1862. Description of a new genus (Strephobasis) of the familly Melanidae, and three new species. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 13: 96 BHL Reference page. 
• Lea, I. 1862. Descriptions of forty-nine new species of the genus Melania. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 13: 117-123 BHL Reference page. 
• Lea, I. 1862. Descriptions of new fossil Mollusca, from the Cretaceous Formation at Haddonfield, New Jersey. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 13: 148-150 BHL Reference page. 
• Lea, I. 1862. Descriptions of eleven new species of the genus Unio from the United States. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 13: 391-393 BHL Reference page. 
• Lea, I. 1862. Descriptions of seven new species of the genus Io. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 13: 393-394 BHL Reference page. 

References

• Leidy, J. 1887. Biographical notice of Isaac Lea, LL.D. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 24: 400-403. BHL

• Tryon, G.W. 1861. Publications of Isaac Lea on recent conchology : extracted from A list of American writers on recent conchology. Bryson's Printing Rooms, Philadelphia. 1-13 BHL