Richard Eugene Petit

Richard ("Dick") Eugene Petit (1931–2013), U.S. malacologist.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

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 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.

Petit, R.E. 2009. George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and Molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2189.1.1 . PDF (WoRMS). Reference page.

Petit, R.E. 2010. The magellanic Mollusca of Rochebrune and Mabille. Zootaxa 2723: 41–65. Preview Reference page.

Bieler, R. & Petit, R.E. 2011. Catalogue of Recent and fossil “worm-snail” taxa of the families Vermetidae, Siliquariidae, and Turritellidae (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda). Zootaxa 2948: 1–103. Preview PDF 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.

Bieler, R. & Petit, R.E. 2012. Molluscan taxa in the publications of the Museum Godeffroy of Hamburg, with a discussion of the Godeffroy Sales Catalogs (1864–1884), the Journal des Museum Godeffroy (1873–1910), and a history of the museum. Zootaxa 3511: 1–80. Preview PDF 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.

Wolfe, D.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