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Rhinochimaeridae (Longnose chimaeras)
Etymology: Harriotta: [an]a- (L.), belonging to: per Goode & Bean (1896), in honor of Thomas Harriott (ca. 1560‒1621), English astronomer, mathematician, ethnographer and translator, who published the first English work on American natural history (1588) (See ETYFish); raleighana: In honor of Sir Walter Raleigh (ca. 1554‒1618), “philosopher and explorer, by whom the first English scientific expedition was sent to the New World” (Raleigh funded a 1585 expedition to Roanoke Island, North Carolina, with Thomas Harriott [honored in the (See ETYFish).
Eponymy: Thomas Harriott (ca: 1560–1621) was an English astronomer, mathematician, ethnographer and translator, who published first English work on American natural history (1588). [...] Sir Walter Raleigh (ca: 1554–1618), the English explorer, writer, poet, soldier and spy, needs no long biography here. The authors say of him: “…by whom the first English scientific expedition was sent to the New World.” (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
More on authors: Goode & Bean.
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