William Pennington Cocks

William Pennington Cocks (1791–1878) was an English surgeon naturalist principally interested in marine fauna.

Owing to ill-health, when he was still only 51, he retired to Falmouth in Cornwall.

[1][2] He described the nudibranch Aeolidiella alderi and the sea anemone Anthopleura ballii.

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