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Name
  
Hampton Parker

Role
  
Author


Died
  
September 2, 1968

Books
  
Snakes

Hampton Wildman Parker (5 July 1897 – 2 September 1968) was an English zoologist.

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Parker was Keeper of Zoology at the Natural History Museum from 1947 to 1957. He is the author of several works on snakes and frogs: Parker discovered a new species of lizard on the Seychelles, which he described and named Vesey-Fitzgerald's burrowing skink (Janetaescincus veseyfitzgeraldi ) after entomologist Leslie Desmond Foster Vesey-Fitzgerald.

Books by H.W. Parker

  • 1934. A Monograph of the Frogs of the Family Microhylidae. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History).
  • 1963. Snakes. London: Hale.
  • 1965. Natural History of Snakes. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History).
  • 1977. Snakes, a Natural History. University of Queensland Press.

    • Eponyms

    Parker is honored in the specific names of the following reptiles: Cercosaura parkeri, Chamaelycus parkeri, Emoia parkeri, Leptotyphlops parkeri, Phelsuma parkeri, Prasinohaema parkeri, Sphaerodactylus parkeri, Tropidophis parkeri, and Zonurus parkeri (a synonym of Cordylus tropidosternum).

    References

    Hampton Wildman Parker Wikipedia
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