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Scholia has a profile for Samuel B. McDowell (Q2112079).

Samuel Booker McDowell Jr. (1928–2014)[2][3] was an American herpetologist who worked on the comparative anatomy of turtles and snakes,[3] and studied snakes of Oceania.[4][5]

McDowell earned a B.Sc. (1947) and a Ph.D. (1957) from Columbia University,[3] and worked at the American Museum of Natural History.[3] His zoological author abbreviation is McDowell. Several snakes are named in his honor.[2]

In addition to his scientific work, McDowell was a friend of New Yorker writer A.J. Liebling,[6] and an occasional contributor to the magazine in the early 1960s.[7][8]

Some taxa authored

Eponyms

The following four snakes are named in honor of McDowell.[9]

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a different genus.

Selected publications

References

  1. ^ McDowell, Sam B. (26 July 1963). "Comment". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 10 February 2025.
  2. ^ a b Species Gerrhopilus mcdowelli at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  3. ^ a b c d Crumly, Charles R. (2015), "Obituary: Samuel Booker McDowell Jr. (13 Sept 1928 - 31 Dec 2014) The most important herpetologist you never knew" (PDF), Herpetological Review, 46 (3): 489–493
  4. ^ S. B. McDowell (26 February 1979). "A Catalogue of the Snakes of New Guinea and the Solomons, with Special Reference to Those in the Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Part III. Boinae and Acrochordoidea (Reptilia, Serpentes)". Journal of Herpetology. 13 (1): 1–92. doi:10.2307/1563761. ISSN 0022-1511. JSTOR 1563761. Wikidata Q56037668.
  5. ^ S. B. McDowell (24 February 1975). "A Catalogue of the Snakes of New Guinea and the Solomons, with Special Reference to Those in the Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Part II. Anilioidea and Pythoninae". Journal of Herpetology. 9 (1): 1. doi:10.2307/1562691. ISSN 0022-1511. Wikidata Q99974549.
  6. ^ Liebling, A. J. (19 October 1962). "The Soul of Bouillabaisse Town". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 10 February 2025.
  7. ^ McDowell, Sam B. (26 July 1963). "Comment". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 10 February 2025.
  8. ^ McDowell, Sam B. (13 April 1962). "First Latimeria". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 10 February 2025.
  9. ^ Beolens, B.; Watkins, M.; Grayson, M. (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (McDowell, p. 173).


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