Nettie Lorene Murray MacGinitie (February 27, 1899 – June 16, 1993) was an American marine biologist and malacologist.
Nettie was born in Falls City, Polk County, Oregon to Catherina Kurz and Lindley Byron Murray.
[1] In 1925, during a summer at the Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University she met George MacGinitie for the first time at a tidepool and they married in 1927.
Together they also served on a naval marine study at Point Barrow in Alaska and she described numerous species of molluscs from the collections made there.
The couple also wrote the Natural History of Marine Animals, the first edition of which was published in 1949.