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サー チャールズ ノートン エッジコム エリオット 士爵

Sir Charles Norton Edgecombe Eliot (1862-1931) [男性]


日本に駐在経験があるため、日本に馴染みのあるウミウシが多々ある。アズキウミウシ[Elysia japonica Eliot, 1913]、ミアミラウミウシ[Ceratosoma magnifica (Eliot, 1940)]などが知られるが、パイナップルウミウシ[Halgerda willeyi Eliot, 1904]など Halgerda 類のウミウシでは初期の分類に貢献している。日本駐在時代に日本の貝類研究者である平瀬信太郎と交流があった

エリオットは チェルトナム・カレッジとベルリオル・カレッジ、オックスフォード大学で教育を受けた。ここで彼は Boden Sanskrit奨学金と Houghton Syriac prize賞(*2)を獲得した。才能のある言語学者のエリオットは、その後も外交官から大学の副総長、大使と多彩な才能を発揮したが、外交官の身分を生かして赴任各地で趣味の後鰓類研究に没頭した。

恐らく日本の後鰓類界に最も大きな影響を与えた外国人研究者の一人で、日本国内での近代的な後鰓類の文献は、1913年に東京帝国大学(現東大)から出版された、"日本の後鰓類 by Eliot"(*3)が最初であった。カラー図譜もあり素晴らしい文献であったが、図譜のない非常に簡単な記載のみだけの新種もあり、後にそれがどのような種であったのかを理解することがほぼ不可能な種を後継者に残すことになった。

アメリカの貝類学者(*4)の Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell (1866-1948) とも親交があり、幾つかの新種を共同で記載している。

馬場菊太郎はルンキナウミウシ[Runcinida elioti (Baba, 1937)]を献名している。


(*1)チェルトナム・カレッジ(Cheltenham College)、ベルリオル・カレッジ(Balliol College)、
  オックスフォード大学(Oxford)。いずれも当地では超名門校。
(*2)The Boden Sanskrit Scholarship、the Houghton Syriac prize。共に最優秀な学生に与えられる。
(*3)Japanese nudibranchs. Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University Tokyo
(*4)コッカレル(Cockerell)はイギリス生まれで、後にアメリカの市民権を得た。

略歴

1862年 (文久 2年) 1月8日 英国(A)で誕生。
1885年 (明治18年) 外交官としてロシアに赴任。
1892年 (明治25年) 外交官としてモロッコに赴任。
1893年 (明治26年) 外交官としてトルコに赴任。
1899年 (明治32年) 外交官としてワシントンD.C.に赴任。
1900年 (明治33年) ナイト(士爵)の称号を授与。同年、英領東アフリカの植民地政府総督に任命される。
1902年 (明治35年) 4月 英領東アフリカへ赴任。
1904年 (明治37年) 英領東アフリカ総督を辞任。(*B)
1905年 (明治38年) 総督を辞任後、シェフィールド大学(University of Sheffield)の副総長
1912年 (大正 1年) 1918年まで香港大学(University of Hong Kong)の初代副総長。
1919年 (大正 8年) 1925年(大正14年)まで駐日英国大使。
1931年 (昭和 6年) 13月16日 終生の独身のエリオットはマラッカ海峡の海で他界。

(*A)オックスフォードシャー(Oxfordshire)、バンブリー(Banbury)近くのシブフォード(Sibford)のガウアー村(Gower)で生まれた。
(*B)現地を実効支配していたランズダーン卿[Load Lansdowne(位はこちらが上)]と意見が対立したため。

前述の"日本の後鰓類"での肩書きは総長(1913年 Presdent of University of  Hong Kong)となっているが、副総長の誤り。


エリオットが新設した属

Chromodoridella Eliot, 1905
Hallaxa Eliot, 1909
Ctenodoris Eliot, 1907
Sclerodoris Eliot, 1903
Ceratophyllidia Eliot, 1903
Tritoniella Eliot, 1907
Tritoniopsis Eliot, 1905
Crosslandia Eliot, 1902
Doridoeides Eliot & Evans, 1908
Doridomorpha Eliot, 1906
Pleurophyllidiella Eliot, 1903
Dironidae Eliot, 1910
Notaeolidia Eliot, 1905
Calmella Eliot, 1906,
Galvinella Eliot, 1907
Dunga Eliot, 1902
Zatteria Eliot, 1902


エリオットが新種記載した種
Bathydoris hodgsoni Eliot, 1907
Bathydoris inflata Eliot, 1907
Acanthodoris falklandica Eliot, 1907
Acanthodoris rhodoceras Cockerell in Cockerell & Eliot, 1905
Aegires gardineri (Eliot, 1906)
Aegires minor (Eliot, 1904)
Notodoris gardineri Eliot, 1906
Notodoris minor Eliot, 1904
Thecacera maculata Eliot, 1905
Analogium striatum (Eliot, 1908)
Angasiella limaciformis (Eliot, 1908)
Gymnodoris coccinea (Eliot, 1904)
Gymnodoris striata (Eliot, 1908)
Nembrotha affinis Eliot, 1904
Nembrotha caerulea Eliot, 1904
Nembrotha limaciformis Eliot, 1908
Nembrotha nigerrima var. Eliot, 1906
Tambja affinis (Eliot, 1904)
Tambja limaciformis (Eliot, 1908)
Trevelyana coccinea Eliot, 1904
Trevelyana striata Eliot, 1908
Hexabranchus digitatus Eliot, 1903,
Hexabranchus marginatus var. moebii (Eliot, 1905c for 1904
Chromodoridella mirabilis Eliot, 1905
Chromodoris africana Eliot, 1904
Chromodoris annulata Eliot, 1904
Chromodoris cavae Eliot, 1904
Chromodoris elizabethina africana Eliot, 1904
Chromodoris flava Eliot, 1904
Chromodoris hilaris var. Eliot, 1904
Chromodoris inconspicua Eliot, 1904
Chromodoris lineata Eliot, 1904
Chromodoris lineata nigrolineata Eliot, 1904
Chromodoris nigrostriata Eliot, 1904
Chromodoris quadricolor var. africana Eliot, 1904
Chromodoris reticulata var. Eliot, 1911
Chromodoris semperi nigrostriata Eliot, 1904
Chromodoris semperi tenuilinearis Eliot, 1905
Chromodoris splendens Eliot, 1904
Chromodoris sykesi Eliot, 1904
Chromodoris tryoni var. Eliot, 1904
Chromodoris vicina Eliot, 1904
Echinodoris armata Eliot, 1913
Glossodoris annulata (Eliot, 1904)
Glossodoris cavae (Eliot, 1904)
Glossodoris flava (Eliot, 1904)
Glossodoris inconspicua (Eliot, 1904)
Glossodoris mirabilis (Eliot, 1905)
Glossodoris nigrolineata (Eliot, 1904)
Glossodoris nigrostriata (Eliot, 1904)
Glossodoris splendens (Eliot, 1904)
Glossodoris sykesi (Eliot, 1904)
Glossodoris vicina (Eliot, 1904)
Hypselodoris nigrolineata (Eliot, 1904)
Hypselodoris nigrostriata (Eliot, 1904)
Noumea flava (Eliot, 1904)
Actinocyclus japonicus (Eliot, 1913)
Actinocyclus laevis var. variegatus (Eliot, 1904)
Sphaerodoris japonica Eliot, 1913
Sphaerodoris laevis var. variegata Eliot, 1904
Ceratosoma magnificum (Eliot, 1910)
Miamira magnifica Eliot, 1910
Orodoris striata Eliot, 1905
Rostanga evansi Eliot, 1906
Austrodoris falklandica (Eliot, 1907)
Austrodoris fulva (Eliot, 1907)
Doris (Ctenodoris) aurantiaca Eliot, 1913
Doris falklandica (Eliot, 1907)
Doris nigromaculata Cockerell in Cockerell & Eliot, 1905
Doris verrucosa mollis Eliot, 1910
Artachaea clavata Eliot, 1907
Artachaea verrucosa Eliot, 1908
Staurodoris atypica Eliot, 1906
Staurodoris calva Eliot, 1903
Staurodoris depressa Eliot, 1903
Staurodoris falklandica Eliot, 1907
Staurodoris pecten Eliot, 1906
Staurodoris verrucosa var. mollis Eliot, 1906
Archidoris africana Eliot, 1903
Archidoris fulva Eliot, 1907
Archidoris minor Eliot, 1903
Ctenodoris aurantiaca (Eliot, 1913)
Peronodoris denticulata Eliot, 1908
Peronodoris tuberculata (Eliot, 1903)
Trippa monsoni Eliot, 1903
Geitodoris reticulata Eliot, 1906
Carminodoris clavata Eliot, 1910
Discodoris caerulescens variegata Eliot, 1903
Discodoris pardalis var. Eliot, 1906
Fracassa tuberculosa Eliot, 1903
Peltodoris angulata Eliot, 1903
Peltodoris aurea Eliot, 1903
Sebadoris crosslandi (Eliot, 1903)
Thordisa annulata Eliot, 1910
Thordisa burnupi Eliot, 1910
Thordisa crosslandi Eliot, 1903
Thordisa stellata Eliot, 1903
Kentrodoris labialis Eliot, 1908
Aphelodoris affinis Eliot, 1907
Aphelodoris cheesemani Eliot, 1907
Dictyodoris maculata Eliot, 1906
Halgerda coriacea (Eliot, 1903)
Halgerda japonica Eliot, 1913
Halgerda minor (Eliot, 1903)
Halgerda wasinensis Eliot, 1903
Halgerda willeyi Eliot, 1903
Halgerda (Dictyodoris) maculata (Eliot, 1906)
Sclerodoris coriacea Eliot, 1903
Sclerodoris minor Eliot, 1903
Sclerodoris rubra Eliot, 1903
Sclerodoris tuberculata Eliot, 1903
Gargamella novozelandica Eliot, 1907
Platydoris formosa var. Eliot, 1903
Platydoris incerta Eliot, 1903
Platydoris papillata Eliot, 1903
Platydoris pulchra Eliot, 1903
Platydoris townsendi Eliot, 1905
Ceratophyllidia africana Eliot, 1903
Ceratophyllidia grisea Eliot, 1910
Phyllidia nobilis rotunda Eliot, 1905
Phyllidia rotunda (Eliot, 1904)
Phyllidia (Ceratophyllidia) africana (Eliot, 1903)
Phyllidiopsis carinata Eliot, 1910
Dendrodoris nigromaculata (Cockerell in Cockerell & Eliot, 1905)
Dendrodoris rubra nigromaculata (Eliot, 1913)
Doridopsis nigromaculata (Cockerell & Eliot, 1905)
Doridopsis reticulata Cockerell & Eliot, 1905
Doridopsis rubra var. nigromaculata Eliot, 1913
Doridopsis tuberculosa var. Eliot, 1906
Doriopsilla nigromaculata (Cockerell in Cockerell & Eliot, 1905)
Doriopsilla reticulata (Cockerell & Eliot, 1905)
Doriopsis aurantiaca (Eliot, 1913)
Doriopsis reticulata (Cockerell in Cockerell & Eliot, 1905)
Marionia albotuberculata Eliot, 1904
Marionia laevis Eliot, 1904
Marionia pellucida Eliot, 1904
Marionia ramosa Eliot, 1904
Marionia viridescens Eliot, 1904
Marioniopsis albotuberculata (Eliot, 1904)
Marioniopsis laevis (Eliot, 1904)
Marioniopsis viridescens (Eliot, 1904)
Tritonia antarctica Eliot, 1905
Tritonia appendiculata Eliot, 1905
Tritonia moesta pallescens Eliot, 1906
Tritoniella belli Eliot, 1907
Tritoniella sinuata Eliot, 1907
Tritoniopsilla brucei (Eliot, 1905)
Tritoniopsis brucei Eliot, 1905
Lomanotus vermiformis Eliot, 1908
Crosslandia fusca Eliot, 1902
Crosslandia viridis Eliot, 1902
Crosslandia viridis fusca Eliot, 1902
Bornella simplex Eliot, 1904
Melibe japonica Eliot, 1913
Doto africana Eliot, 1905
Doto antarctica Eliot, 1907
Doto cinerea var. nigromaculata Eliot, 1906
Doto nigromaculata Eliot, 1906
Doto obscura Eliot, 1906
Doto papillifera Eliot, 1906
Doto pinnatifida var. papillifera Eliot, 1906
Doridoeides gardineri Eliot & Evans, 1908
*Doridomorpha gardineri Eliot, 1906
Armina japonica (Eliot, 1913)
Dermatobranchus albus (Eliot, 1904)
Dermatobranchus glaber (Eliot, 1908)
Pleuroleura alba Eliot, 1904
Pleuroleura glabra Eliot, 1908
Pleurophyllidia horati Eliot, 1903
Pleurophyllidia japonica Eliot, 1913
Pleurophyllidia similis Eliot, 1913
Pleurophyllidiella horatii Eliot, 1903
Dirona MacFarland in Cockerell & Eliot, 1905
Dirona picta MacFarland in Cockerell & Eliot, 1905
Antiopella indica Eliot, 1909
Antiopella novozelandiae Eliot, 1907
Janolus coeruleopictus Cockerell in Cockerell & Eliot, 1905
Janolus flagellatus Eliot, 1906
Janolus indicus (Eliot, 1909)
Janolus novozealandicus (Eliot, 1907)
Hero formosa var. arborescens Eliot, 1905
Notaeolidia depressa Eliot, 1907
Notaeolidia gigas Eliot, 1905
Notaeolidia purpurea Eliot, 1905
Coryphella beaumonti Eliot, 1906
Coryphella falklandica Eliot, 1907
Flabellina falklandica (Eliot, 1907)
Cumanotus beaumonti (Eliot, 1906)
Amphorina pallida Eliot, 1906
Eubranchus falklandicus (Eliot, 1907)
Galvina falklandica Eliot, 1907
Galvinella antarctica Eliot, 1907
Cuthonella antarctica Eliot, 1907
Cuthonella modesta Eliot, 1907
Cuthonella paradoxa Eliot, 1907
Catriona valentini (Eliot, 1907)
Cuthona annandalei Eliot, 1910a
Cuthona henrici Eliot, 1916
Cuthona valentini (Eliot, 1907)
Cuthona (Hervia) lineata (Eliot, 1904)
Indocratena annulata (Eliot, 1910)
Dunga nodulosa Eliot, 1902
Tergipes valentini (Eliot, 1907)
Zatteria browni Eliot, 1902
Phidiana longicirrha Eliot, 1906
Phidiana longicirrha Eliot, 1906
Facelina lineata Eliot, 1905
Hervia ceylonica Eliot, 1913
Hervia lineata Eliot, 1905
Pruvotfolia longicirrha (Eliot, 1906)
Cratena lineata (Eliot, 1904)
Cratena valentini Eliot, 1907
Dondice ceylonica (Eliot)
Rizzolia lineata (Eliot, 1904)
Pteraeolidia annulata Eliot, 1910
Aeolidiella chromosoma (Cockerell & Eliot, 1905)
Aeolidiella japonica Eliot, 1913
Cerberilla africana Eliot, 1903
Eolidina japonica (Eliot, 1913)
Baeolidia major Eliot, 1903
Baeolidia major var. ornata Eliot, 1903
Berghia major (Eliot, 1903)
Spurilla chromosoma Cockerell in Cockerell & Eliot, 1905
Spurilla japonica (Eliot, 1913)
Spurilla major (Eliot, 1903)
Elysia japonica Eliot, 1913


エリオットに献名された属
Eliotia Vayssi醇Qre, 1909


エリオットに献名された種
Eliotia souleyeti Vayssi醇Qre, 1909
Triopha elioti O'Donoghue, 1921
Cuthona elioti Odhner, 1944


Eliot, C.N.E. エリオットの論文リスト

ELIOT, Charles Norton Edgecombe. 1900. Notes on tectibranchs and naked mollusks from Samoa.Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia, pp. 512-523, pl. 19.
ELIOT, C. N. E. 1901. Notes on a remarkable nudibranch from north-west America. Proceedings of theMalacological Society of London 4(4):163-165.
ELIOT, C. N. E. 1902. On some nudibranchs from Zanzibar. Proceedings of the Zoological Society ofLondon 2:62-72, pls. 5-6.
ELIOT, C. N. E. 1903. On some nudibranchs from east Africa and Zanzibar, part II. Proceedings of theZoological Society of London 1:250-257.
ELIOT, C. N. E. 1903a. On some nudibranchs from east Africa and Zanzibar. Part III. DorididaeCryptobranchiatae, I. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 2:354-385, pls. 22-24.
ELIOT, C. N. E. 1904. On some nudibranchs from east Africa and Zanzibar. Part IV. Proceedings of theZoological Society of London 1:380-406, pls. 23-24.
ELIOT, C. N. E. 1904a. On some nudibranchs from east Africa and Zanzibar. Part V. Proceedings of theZoological Society of London 2:83-105, pls. 3-4.
ELIOT, C. N. E. 1904b. On the Doris planata of Alder and Hancock. Proceedings of the MalacologicalSociety of London 6(3):180-181.
ELIOT, C. N. E. 1905. Note on Geitodoris planata (Alder & Hancock). Proceedings of the MalacologicalSociety of London 6(4):186-187.
ELIOT, C. N. E. 1905a. On some nudibranchs from the Pacific, including a new genus, Chromodoridella.Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 6(4):229-238.
ELIOT, C. N. E. 1905b. Notes on two rare British nudibranchs, Hero formosa, var. arborescens, andStaurodoris maculata. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 6(4):239-243.
ELIOT, C. N. E. 1905c. On some nudibranchs from east Africa and Zanzibar. Part VI. Proceedings of theZoological Society of London 2:268-298, pls. 16-17.
ELIOT, C. N. E. 1905d. The Nudibranchiata of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. Transactions ofthe Royal Society of Edinburgh 41(3) No. 22, pp. 519-532.
ELIOT, C. N. E. 1905f. Nudibranchs from the Indo-Pacific. I. Notes on a collection dredged near Karachiand Maskat. Journal of Conchology 11(8):237-256.
ELIOT, C. N. E. 1906. The genus Doriopsilla Bergh. Journal of Conchology 11(12):366-367.Gary McDonald, Long Marine Laboratory, 100 Shaffer Rd., Santa Cruz, Cal. 9506013
ELIOT, C. N. E. 1906a. On the nudibranchs of southern India and Ceylon, with special reference to thedrawings by Kelaart and the collections belonging to Alder and Hancock preserved in the HancockMuseum at Newcastle-on-Tyne. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, pp. 636-691,pls. 42-47.
ELIOT, C. N. E. 1906b. On the nudibranchs of southern India and Ceylon, with special reference to thedrawings by Kelaart and the collections belonging to Alder and Hancock preserved in the HancockMuseum at Newcastle-on-Tyne.?No. 2. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, pp.999-1008.
ELIOT, C. N. E. 1906c. Notes on some British nudibranchs. Journal of the Marine Biological Association,new series, 7(3):333-382, pls. 11-12.
ELIOT, C. N. E. 1906d. Report upon a collection of Nudibranchiata from the Cape Verd Islands, with notesby C. Crossland. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 7(3):131-159, pl. 14.
ELIOT, C. N. E. 1906e. Nudibranchiata, with some remarks on the families and genera and description of anew genus, Doridomorpha, pp. 540-573, pl. 32. In: J. Stanley Gardiner (Ed.) The fauna andgeography of the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes, being the account of the work carried onand of the collections made by an expedition during the years 1899 and 1900, vol. 2.
ELIOT, C. N. E. 1907. Nudibranchs from the Indo-Pacific. III. Journal of Conchology 12(3):81-92.
ELIOT, C. N. E. 1907a. Nudibranchs from New Zealand and the Falkland Islands. Proceedings of theMalacological Society of London 7(6):327-361, pl. 28.
ELIOT, C. N. E. 1907b. Mollusca. IV. Nudibranchiata. National Antarctic Expedition 1901-1904. NaturalHistory 2:1-28, 1 pl.
ELIOT, C. N. E. 1908. On the genus Cumanotus. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of theUnited Kingdom, new series 8(3):313-314.
ELIOT, C. N. E. 1908a. Reports on the marine biology of the Sudanese Red Sea. XI. Notes on a collectionof nudibranchs from the Red Sea. Journal Linnean Society London, Zoology 31:86-122.
ELIOT, C. N. E. 1909. Report on the nudibranchs collected by Mr. James Hornell at Okhamandal inKattiawar in 1905-6. In: Report to the government of Baroda on the marine zoology ofOkhamandal 1:137-145.
ELIOT, C. N. E. 1909a. Notes on a collection of nudibranchs from Ceylon. Spolia Zeylanica. Colombo6(23):79-95.
ELIOT, C. N. E. 1909b. The Nudibranchiata of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. Report of theScientific Results of the Voyage of S. Y. “Scotia” during the years 1902, 1903, and 1904, under theleadership of William S. Bruce, Volume V?Zoology, Part II, Nudibranchiata, pp. 11-24.
ELIOT, C. N. E. 1910. Nudibranchs collected by Mr. Stanley Gardiner from the Indian Ocean in H.M.S.Sealark. In: Reports of the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905, under theleadership of Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner, M.A. Transactions of the Linnean Society, Zoology, series 2,13(2):411-439, pl. 25.
ELIOT, C. N. E. 1910a. Notes on nudibranchs from the Indian museum. Records of the Indian Museum5(4):247-252, pl. 19.Gary McDonald, Long Marine Laboratory, 100 Shaffer Rd., Santa Cruz, Cal. 9506013
ELIOT, C. N. E. 1910b. On some nudibranchs from the coast of Natal. Annals of the Natal Museum 2:221-225.
ELIOT, C. N. E. 1910d. A monograph of the British nudibranchiate Mollusca: with figures of the species.pt. VIII (supplementary). Figures by the late Joshua Alder and the late Albany Hancock, andothers, pp. 1-198, pls. 1-8. Ray Society, London.
ELIOT, C. N. E. 1911. Chromodorids from the Red Sea, collected and figured by Mr. Cyril Crossland.Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, pp. 1068-1072, pl. 61.
ELIOT, C. N. E. 1912. A note on the rare British nudibranch Hancockia eudactylota Gosse. Proceedings ofthe Zoological Society of London, p. 770, pl. 85.
ELIOT, C. N. E. 1913. Japanese nudibranchs. Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University Tokyo35:1-47, pls. 1-2.
ELIOT, C. N. E. 1916. Mollusca Nudibranchiata. In: Fauna of the Chilka Lake. Memoirs of the IndianMuseum 5:375-380.
ELIOT, C. N. E. 1916a. Zoological results of a tour in the far east. Mollusca Nudibranchiata. MemoirsAsiatic Society Bengal 6: [Mentions Sacoglossa only, no nudibranchs].
ELIOT, C. N. E., & T. J. EVANS. 1908. Doridoeides gardineri: a doridiform cladohepatic nudibranch.Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science 52(2):279-299, pls. 15-16.

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