Stella Maris Turk, MBE (27 March 1925 – 3 April 2017) was a British zoologist, naturalist, and conservationist.
Stella Turk was born in 1925[2] on the Isles of Scilly, some distance off the western tip of Cornwall, Great Britain.
In addition she worked with her late husband biologist Frank Turk in the field of adult education.
She was a major contributor to the Red Data Book for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly (editor Adrian Spalding), as the author of thirty-six sections including many of the unusual and under-recorded animals such as Thorn-skins (Kinorhyncha) and Entoprocta.
[7] Turk was awarded an MBE in the 2003 New Year Honours List, "For services to Nature Conservation, Cornwall, while holding office as Strandings Recorder".