Jump to content

William Charles Schroeder

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Ser Amantio di Nicolao (talk | contribs) at 03:51, 18 September 2020 (→‎External links: add category). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

William Charles Schroeder (1895–1977) was an American ichthyologist. He was born on Staten Island, New York. He, along with his lifelong colleague Henry Bryant Bigelow, made substantial contributions to the knowledge of the fish fauna of the western North Atlantic. The two described 42 new species of jawless fishes and cartilaginous fishes, and authored several seminal publications, including Fishes of the Western North Atlantic and Fishes of the Gulf of Maine.[1]

A species of Chilean lizard, Liolaemus schroederi, is named in his honor. A genus of catsharks, Schroederichthys, is named after Schroeder.[2]

References

  1. ^ A Guide to the William Charles Schroeder Papers, 1887-1981: Biographical Information. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
  2. ^ 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. ("Schroeder", p. 238).

External links

Media related to William Charles Schroeder at Wikimedia Commons