Career
Thanks to her collecting, the Academy has an exceptionally fine collection of turrids. They had no children. A bibliography of Virginia Orr Maes was written by the malacologist Robert Robertson in 1987.
Gastropods named in honor of Virginia Orr Maes include one genus, six species and one subspecies:
Genus Maesiella McLean in McLean & Poorman, 1971
Anarithma maesi Drivas & Jay, 1986
Fusiturricula maesae Rios, 1985
Maesiella maesae McLean & Poorman, 1971
Pugnus maesae Roth, 1972
Simnia maesae Cate, 1973
Taheitia orrae Turner, 1959
Subspecies Strombus urceus orrae Abbott, 1960 - now considered to be a synonym of Canarium urceus urceus (Linnaeus, 1758).
