Emmett Reid Dunn

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Name Emmett Dunn
Died February 13, 1956, Bryn Mawr, Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, United States Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada
Education Harvard University (1921)

Emmett Reid Dunn (November 21, 1894 in Alexandria, Virginia – February 13, 1956) was an American herpetologist noted for his work in Panama and for studies of salamanders in the Eastern United States. He attended Haverford College as an undergraduate and received his PhD from Harvard University. After receiving his PhD, he taught at Smith College. He left Smith to study on a Guggenheim Fellowship, following which he became a professor of biology at Haverford College. He was also curator of reptiles and amphibians at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. He served as editor of Copeia from 1924 to 1929.

Eponyms

A number of reptiles were named in honor of Dunn, both species (binomials) and subspecies (trinomials), including the following.

Species:

Anolis dunni H.M. Smith, 1936 – Dunn's anole

Atractus dunni Savage, 1955 – Dunn's ground snake

Geophis dunni K.P. Schmidt, 1932 – Dunn's earth snake

Hydromorphus dunni Slevin, 1942 – Dunn's water snake

Kinosternon dunni K.P. Schmidt, 1947 – Colombian mud turtle

Micrablepharus dunni Laurent, 1949 – Dunn's tinyfoot teiid

Porthidium dunni (Hartweg and J.A. Oliver, 1938) – Dunn's hognose pitviper

Sibon dunni J.A. Peters, 1957 – Dunn's snail sucker

Sinonatrix dunni (Malnate, 1968)

Sphaerodactylus dunni K.P. Schmidt, 1936 – Dunn's least gecko

Subspecies:

Liasis mackloti dunni Stull, 1932 – Wetar python

Mastigodryas boddaerti dunni (L.C. Stuart, 1933) – Dunn's tropical racer

Micrurus dissoleucus dunni Barbour, 1923 – Dunn's pygmy coral snake

This author abbreviation is not to be confused with Dunn in botany, where it refers to Stephen Troyte Dunn.

References

Emmett Reid Dunn Wikipedia

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