Taphrospilus
Well-known member
I know not a question for etymology but it fits in this section most.
Great Shearwater Ardenna gravis (O'Reilly, 1818) was named by Bernard O'Reilly OD Greenland, the adjacent seas, and the North-west Passage to the Pacific Ocean - Biodiversity Heritage Library
I found this publication about him https://www.jstor.org/stable/25538895
From the preview I do not know if his life dates are mentioned. If they are known where and when born/died?
Great Shearwater Ardenna gravis (O'Reilly, 1818) was named by Bernard O'Reilly OD Greenland, the adjacent seas, and the North-west Passage to the Pacific Ocean - Biodiversity Heritage Library
I found this publication about him https://www.jstor.org/stable/25538895
J. P. O'Connor: Bernard O'Reilly: Genius or Rogue?, The Irish Naturalists' Journal. Vol. 21, No. 9 (Jan., 1985), pp. 379-384
From the preview I do not know if his life dates are mentioned. If they are known where and when born/died?