Clement Samuel Brimley

{{Short description|English-American zoologist}}

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| name = Clement Samuel Brimley

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| birth_date = 18 December 1863

| birth_place = Buckinghamshire, England

| death_date = {{death-date and age|23 July 1946|18 December 1863}}

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| citizenship = American

| nationality = English

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| field = Zoology

| work_institution = North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences

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| author_abbreviation_zoo = C.S. Brimley

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Clement Samuel Brimley (18 December 1863 – 23 July 1946) was a self-trained zoologist who worked at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. His brother, H.H. Brimley, was a zoologist and long-time director of the same museum. Both Brimley brothers are buried at Historic Oakwood Cemetery in Raleigh. Brimley's chorus frog and the firefly Photinus brimleyi{{cite book |last1=Faust |first1=Lynn Frierson |title=Fireflies, Glow-worms, and Lightning Bugs |date=2017 |publisher=University of Georgia Press |isbn=978-0-8203-4872-8}} were named for C.S. Brimley.