Temple Prime

{{Short description|American conchologist}}

Image:Prime Temple 1832-1903.jpg

Temple Prime (September 14, 1832, New York City – February 25, 1903, New York City) was an American amateur conchologist.{{Cite web|url=http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/~ksc/Malacologists/PrimeT.html |publisher=Illinois Natural History Survey|title=Temple Prime |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160919214353/http://wwn.inhs.illinois.edu/~ksc/Malacologists/PrimeT.html |archive-date=19 September 2016}} He studied under Louis Agassiz at Harvard University.{{Cite journal|author=Roberts, S. Raymond |year=1903|title=Temple Prime|journal=Nautilus|volume=16|issue=12|pages=138–139|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W50KAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA138}} He described several new species of the bivalve family Cycladidae.{{Cite journal|author=Prime, Temple|year=1852|title=Description of Cycladidae |journal=Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History|volume=4|pages=155–165}}{{Cite journal|author=Johnson, Richard I.|year=1959|title=The types of Corbiculidae and Sphaeriidae (Mollusca: Pelecypoda) in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and a bio-bibliographic sketch of Temple Prime, an early specialist of the group |journal=Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology|volume=120|issue=4|pages=429–479}}Subsequently the family name "Cycladidae" was given up in favour of "Sphaeriidae". {{Cite journal|author1=Bowden, John|author2=Heppell, David|name-list-style=amp|year=1968|title=Revised list of British Mollusca. 2. Unionacea-Cardiacea|journal=Journal of Conchology|volume=26|issue=4|pages=237–272, note 55, pages 253–254|url=http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/263507.pdf|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141228234614/http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/263507.pdf|archivedate=28 December 2014|url-status=dead}}

Prime was also an amateur genealogist, publishing several books on his own family history.{{cite web |url=http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n85809476/ |title=Prime, Temple 1832-1903 |work=Worldcat Identities |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221023002458/https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n85809476/ |archive-date=23 October 2022}}