Editing Thomas Say (section)

==Legacy and honors==
{{see also|:Category:Taxa named by Thomas Say}}

Say described more than 1,000 new species of [[beetle]]s, more than 400 species of [[insect]]s of other orders, and seven well-known species of snakes.<ref>[[Karl Patterson Schmidt|Schmidt, Karl P.]]; Davis, D. Dwight (1941). ''Field Book of Snakes of the United States and Canada''. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 365 pp. ("History of the Study of Snakes in the United States", Thomas Say, p. 12).</ref>

Other zoologists honored him by naming several [[Taxon|taxa]] after him:<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tmbl.gu.se/libdb/taxon/personetymol/petymol.l.html |title=Charles-Alexandre Lesueur |work=Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names |author=Hans G. Hansson |publisher=[[University of Gothenburg]] |access-date=November 27, 2012}}</ref>
*''[[Dyspanopeus sayi]]'' <small>([[Sidney Irving Smith|S. I. Smith]], 1869)</small> – Say's mud crab
*''[[Portunus sayi]]'' <small>(Gibbes, 1850)</small> – a swimming crab of the [[Family (biology)|family]] [[Portunidae]]
*''[[Porcellana sayana]]'' <small>(Leach, 1820)</small> – an Atlantic porcelain crab
*''[[Lanceola sayana]]'' <small>([[Carl Bovallius|Bovallius]], 1885)</small> – an [[amphipod]] from the family [[Lanceolidae]]
*''[[Calliostoma sayanum]]'' <small>Dall, 1889</small> – a [[sea snail]] in the family [[Calliostomatidae]]
*''[[Diodora sayi]]'' <small>(Dall, 1899)</small> – a sea snail in the family [[Fissurellidae]]
*''[[Oliva sayana]]'' <small>Ravenel, 1834</small> – a sea snail in the family [[Olividae]]
*''[[Sayella]]'' <small>Dall, 1885</small> – a [[genus]] of sea snails in the family [[Pyramidellidae]]
*''[[Propeamussium|Propeamussium sayanum]]'' <small>(Dall, 1886)</small> – a saltwater clam in the family [[Propeamussiidae]]
*''[[Appalachina sayana]]'' <small>([[Henry Augustus Pilsbry|Pilsbry]] ''in'' Pilsbry & Ferriss, 1906)</small> – a [[land snail]] in the family [[Polygyridae]]
*''Pituophis catenifer sayi'' <small>([[Hermann Schlegel|Schlegel]], 1837)</small> – the [[bullsnake]]<ref>Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. ("Say", p. 234).</ref>
*''[[Sayornis]]'' <small>([[Charles Lucien Bonaparte|Bonaparte]], 1854)</small> – a genus in the [[tyrant flycatcher]] family
*''[[Fox squirrel|Sciurus niger rufiventer]]'' - Say's squirrel
*''[[Chlorochroa sayi]]'' <small>([[Carl Stål|Stål]], 1872)</small> - Say's stink bug, a species of [[Pentatomidae|stink bug]]