malacologist. 1976 members San Diego Shell Club. Special Memorial issue of The Festivus 1/98. The genus Attiliosa Emerson, 1968 as well as Eulimostraca attilioi Hertz & Hertz, 1982 and Dermomurex (Viator) antonius Vokes, 1974 were named in his honor. Favartia (Murexiella) rosamiae D'Attilio & Myers, 1985, named for Mrs D'Attilio. Cebu, Philippines - Edit

members, New York Shell Club, 1950-59 - Valley Stream, NY members New York Shell Club, 1969 - Laguna Beach, CA members New York Shell Club, 1970 - San Diego, CA - Edit

1961, member Malacological Society of Australia - Valley Stream, NY - Edit

1974, member Western Society of Malacologists - Anthony 1975, member Western Society of Malacologists " - Edit

1947 J.Q. Burch's Directory of Conchologists - Yonkers, NY 1948 J.Q. Burch's Directory of Conchologists ditto 1950 J.Q. Burch's Directory of Conchologists ditto 1954 J.Q. Burch's Directory of Conchologists - Valley Stream, NY 1956 J.Q. Burch's Directory of Conchologists " world wide marine and land shells - Edit

1968 R.E. Petit's Directory of Conchologists - New York, NY 1970 R.E. Petit's International Directory of Conchologists - San Diego, CA 1972 R.E. Petit's International Directory of Conchologists " Murex only - Edit

1974 The Shell Cabinet’s International Directory of Conchologists 1976 The Shell Cabinet’s International Directory of Conchologists 1978-79 The Shell Cabinet’s International Directory of Conchologists 1982-83 The Shell Cabinet’s International Directory of Conchologists 1985 The Shell Cabinet’s International Directory of Conchologists Muricidae only - Edit

Anthony D’Attilio, bom in the little town of Rodi Garganico in the province of Foggia in southern Italy on July 2, 1909, was the son of a longshoreman. The family emigrated to the United States when Tony was three years old, settling in Hoboken, New Jersey, where he attended elementary and high school. He said he gained much of his early education by reading the “Encyclopedia Britannica as most children read story books.” Tony’s interest and talent in art was evident early and he began his art education in 1928 at night school in Manhattan at The Leonardo Da Vinci Art School and continued regular academic training for six years drawing and painting from life. In 1934, he simultaneously began a course in creative design at the Beaux Arts Institute of Design, studied mural painting, and married Rose Hartman, who became his life-long companion. Their marriage produced two children, Sandra and Lawrence, and eventually seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Tony pursued a career as a designer of glass engraving and executed large mural paintings, becoming a partner and designer in Harriton Carved Glass, 1945 -1968. Among other installations, his carved glass eagle is in the ceiling of the Senate Rotunda and other decorative glass work can be found in other major government buildings in Washington, D.C., a mirrored cocktail table made for the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, windows in Notre Dame Church in New Hyde Park, New Jersey, and decorative panels for the Pennsylvania Railroad and major hotels in New York City. In the 1930s, examples of his carved glass were exhibited and in 1937 won a prize, at the Paris World’s Fair. His glass was also exhibited in the New York World’s Fair in 1940, and in 1959 Steuben Glass accepted a glass engraving for an international exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City; this work now on permanent exhibit at the Steuben Museum in Coming, New York. Tony’s interest in mollusks came later. He always said his fascination for shells didn’t begin until his wife, Rose, in 1938, sent him some shells from Florida where she was on vacation. He soon became a knowledgeable collector and in 1939 was engaged as an expert to evaluate the rarity of shells in the famous Calvert Collection. In 1963 he published, with William K. Emerson of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, his first of many professional papers and later became an Associate in the Department of Living Invertebrates in that institution. In 1968, on his own, he described the species Latiaxis garrardi. At the same time he was preparing drawings and watercolors for books on biology, insects and other natural history subjects including a major effort in illustrating 30 booklets on natural history subjects distributed by Doubleday Co., NY. It was at this time that Tony retired from the glass business and he and Rose decided to relocate to California. While living briefly in Laguna Beach with their daughter Sandra, Tony was offered a part-time position at the San Diego Natural History Museum as assistant in the Department of Marine Invertebrates, at the request of its then curator Dr. George E. Radwin. The D’Attilios soon moved to San Diego where Tony, at 60 years of age, began another new career! Soon after Tony’s arrival at the Museum, he and George Radwin together began writing, and Tony illustrating, Murex Shells of the World, published in 1974 by Stanford University Press and still the “bible” for students of the Muricidae. In 1971, Tony made what he considered the most significant discovery of his career. He found that a surface shell layer, thought by most to be incrustation,was actually a part of the mollusk shell, often with a unique sculptural pattern. He called this layer “intritacalx” ( intrita = crumbly; calx = chalk). The information was published by D’Attilio and Radwin (1971). Tony spent over 18 years at the San Diego Natural History Museum, his generous and gentle nature coupled with his keen mind making him a valued colleague and friend. Not long after the untimely death of Dr. Radwin in 1977, Tony became Acting Curator, a position he held from 1980 through 1987, except for two brief periods when other full-time curators headed the Department. The Department flourished under Tony’s leadership; volunteers served “long-term;” donations of molluscan study material were generous; his own research was extensive and he encouraged others in the Department to undertake research projects. Tony was a teacher by nature and willingly shared his knowledge of art and science with those with whom he worked.Although his position was still part-time, his output, either alone or with coauthors, of nine papers proposing new taxa, over 50 papers on descriptive taxonomy, and many popular articles is, indeed, enormous. During his career in malacology, this self-taught scientist proposed, alone and with coauthors, two subfamilies, two genera and 75 species. Two species and a genus were named in his honor and he received an award of honor from The Western Society of Malacologists and honorary memberships in both the New York Shell Club and the San Diego Shell Club. While working in malacology, Tony continued his art work and scientific illustration. There were one-man shows of his work held in galleries in Chicago, Milwaukee, San Diego and Sheboygan. Three exhibits of his art were also held in the San Diego Natural History Museum, the first in 1970, of his biological illustrations, showed the exacting side of art; the second, in 1976, displayed Tony’s glass, metal, ink and mixed media creations reflecting “the subjective aspects of nature, how it affects the mind and feelings.” The third, in 1983, “The World of Anthony D’Attilio,” was a one-man show of Tony’s intricate pen-and-ink drawings, filled with symbolism and fantasy. Tony’s interests were boundless. He was a history buff, was fascinated by anthropology, a lover of music, especially Bach, a collector, with Rose, of cactus and succulents, and an active member of the Cactus and Succulent Society. His art work graced the covers of their journal as well as those of cactus catalogues. This was a Renaissance Man. In 1987, a full-time curator was hired and Tony’s part-time position was eliminated. He retired again - this time to his studio — where his output of art work continued to grow. But in 1994, Tony’s cherished wife and inseparable companion, Rose, died and soon Tony left San Diego for Laguna Beach to live with his daughter, Sandra, and family. He continued with his art work, but without his Rose, he was bereft. The world is poorer for his passing. CAROLE M. HERTZ - Edit

1963. Old, William E., Jr & Anthony D'Attilio.. Remarks on Conus telatus Reeve (Mollusca : Gastropoda). The Veliger 6(2): 60-61 Source - Edit

1968 (with Carole M. Hertz). A New Species of Latiaxis (Gastropoda: Magilidae) from Queensland, Australia. Jour. Malac. Soc. Australia. No. 11, 3 pp, 1 pl. 1988. Source - Edit

1969, Emerson, William K. & Anthony D'Attilio. A New Species of Strombina fron the Galapagos Islands. The Veliger 11(3): 195-197 Source - Edit

1969. Emerson, Wiliam K. & Anthony D'Attilio. Remarks on the Taxonomic Placement of Purpurellus Jousseaume, 1880, with the Description of a New Species. The Velige 12(2): 145-148 Source - Edit

1969. Emerson, William K. & Anthony D'Attilio. A New Species of Murexsul from the Galápagos Islands. The Veliger 11(4): 324-325 Source - Edit

1970. Emerson, William K. & Anthony D'Attilio. Three New Species of Muricacean Gastropods from the Eastern Pacific. The Veliger 12(3): 270-274 Source - Edit

1970. Radwin, George E. & Anthony D'Attilio. A New Species of Muricopsis from West Mexico. The Veliger 12(3): 351-356 Source - Edit

1971. D'Attilio, Anthony & William E. Old, Jr. A New Muricid Gastropod from Western Australia. The Veliger 13(4): 316-318 Source - Edit

1971. D'ttilio, Anthony & George E. Radwin. The Intritacalx, an Undescribed Shell Layer in Mollusks. The Veliger 13(4): 344-347 Source - Edit

1971. Radwin, G.E. & D'Attilio, A. Muricacean supraspecific taxonomy based on the shell and the radula. The Echo 4: 55–67. Source - Edit

1972 (with George E. Radwin). The Systematics of Some New World Muricid Species (Mollusca: Gastropoda), With Descriptions of Two New Genera and Two New Species. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington. Vol., 85, Source - Edit

1975 (with George E. Radwin). A Catalogue of Muricacean Generic Taxa. Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist. Vol. 17, No. 20, pp 279-272, no illus. [TR] Source - Edit

1976 (with George E. Radwin). Murex Shells of the World, An Illustrated Guidew to the Musicidae. Stanford Univ. Press. 284 pp, 32 color plates, 192 text figs. (hardcover 8 x 11îù) [TR] Source - Edit

1978. A Catalogue of Coralliophilidae. The Festivus, Vol 10, No. 10, pp 69-94 [TR] Source - Edit

1980. D'Attilio, Anthony & W. K. Emerson, 1980. Two New Indo-Pacific Coralliophila Species. Bull. Inst. Malac. Tokyo 1(5):69-72, plates 19-20 Source - Edit

1980. Kennedy, George L., Anthony D'Attilio, Samuel D. Morrison & Kenneth R. Lajoie. Late Quaternary Bankia (Bivalvia: Teredinidae) from Humboldt County, California. The Veliger 23(1): 75-76 Source - Edit

1983. D'Attilio, A. & Meyers, B.W. The genus Pteropurpura Jousseaume, 1880 (Muricidae: Oceneabridae). The Festivus, 15(11). 2 pp., 3 figs. Source - Edit

1985. D'Attilio, A. Comments on the Muricineae genus Purpurpellus Jousseaume, 1880. The Festivus, 7(11). P. 115-118, 8 figs. Source - Edit

1987. D'Attilio, A. & Hertz, C.M. A New Species of Naquetia (Muricidae) from the Gulf of Aqaba. The Veliger, 30(2). P. 190-195, 1 pl. Source - Edit

1988. D'Atillio, Anthony & Carole M. Hertz. An Illustrated Catalogue of the Family Typhidae Cossman, 1903. The Festivus, Vol. XX, Supplement. 73 pp, 109 line drawings (8½ x 11") Source - Edit