Benjamin Shreve (1908–1985) was an American amateur herpetologist . He was from a wealthy Boston family of jewellers (partners and managers of Shreve, Crump & Low ) and worked at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology as a volunteer.[ 1] [ 2] He was trained by Arthur Loveridge to deal with materials from elsewhere than Africa . Shreve described many species from the West Indies together with Thomas Barbour . In these papers, Shreve is said to have done the "spadework" while Barbour wrote "florid" introductions.[ 3]
Species named in honor of Benjamin Shreve
Reptiles named in honor of Shreve include:[ 1]
Amphibians named in honor of Shreve are:[ 2] [ 4] [ 5]
References
^ a b Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael. (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press . p. 243. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5 .
^ a b Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael. (2013). The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians . Exeter, England: Pelagic Publishing Ltd. p. 197. ISBN 978-1-907807-44-2 .
^ Crother, Brian I. (1999). Caribbean Amphibians and Reptiles . Waltham, Massachusetts: Academic Press. 493 pp. ISBN 978-0121979553 .
^ Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Osteopilus wilderi (Dunn, 1925)" . Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0 . American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 24 November 2014 .
^ Frost, Darrel R. (2014). "Andinobates minutus (Shreve, 1935)" . Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0 . American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 13 September 2014 .