Dilford C. Carter

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Dilford Campbell Carter (* 1930 in Abilene , Texas ) is an American mammal loge . His main research interests are bats , especially bulldog bats (Molossidae).

Life

After finishing school, Carter served as a sniper in the Korean War . He then studied at Southern Methodist University , where he earned a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science. Starting in 1956, graduated from Carter, a zoology studies at Texas A & M University , where he in 1962 under the direction of William B. Davis with the dissertation The systematic status of the bat Tadarida brasiliensis (Geoffroy) and its related main landforms for Ph.D. received a PhD in wildlife biology. From 1962 to 1971 he was a faculty member at Texas A&M University and a member of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. He was also the curator of mammals at the Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collection. During an Amazon expedition in Peru in 1964, Carter met his future wife Sigrid Fischer, who came from Germany and who went on an adventurous journey from Colorado to Brazil for 18 months with three friends and published a book about it in 2016. In 1966 he named the bat species Rhinophylla fischerae after her. From 1973 to 1983, Carter was the Assistant Dean of the Graduate School and Professor at Texas Tech University . From 1976 to 1984 he was director of the Texas Tech University Press and from 1972 to 1984 editor of Academic Publications. From 1985 to 1990 he directed the PrinTech Collection, a division of Texas Tech University that contains photos, negatives, and printed matter for other campus departments and organizations.

Carter specialized in collecting bats and other mammals in the American tropics . He conducted intensive field studies, introduced students to field biology and led several museum excursions to Mexico . During his time at Texas Tech University he received scholarships from the Smithsonian Institution for the study of mammals in Croatia and in 1978, together with his doctoral student Patricia G. Dolan, for research on his publication Catalog of Type Specimens of Neotropical Bats in Selected European Museums .

Carter was the editor of the three-part series Biology of Bats of the New World Family Phyllostomatidae , which was published in 1976, 1977 and 1979, alongside Robert J. Baker and J. Knox Jones, Jr. He described several new bat taxa , including Platyrrhinus nigellus ( Gardner and Carter, 1972 ), Platyrrhinus brachycephalus ( Rouk and Carter, 1972 ) and Lophostoma silvicolum occidentalis (( Davis and Carter, 1978 ), now a synonym for Lophostoma silvicolum laephotis ( O. Thomas, 1910 )), Lophostoma silvicolum centralis ( Davis and Carter, 1978 ) and Lophostoma evotis ( Davis and Carter, 1978 ). In 1990 Carter retired from university and subsequently worked in private commercial companies in Lubbock .

Dedication names

Richard K. LaVal named the mouse- eared species Myotis carteri in honor of Carter in 1973 .

literature

  • Lisa C. Bradley, John R. Suchecki, Brian R. Amman, Joel G. Brant, Hugh H. Genoways, L. Rex McAliley, Robert J. Baker, Francisca Mendez-Harclerode, and Robert D. Bradley: Mammalogy at Texas Tech University : A Historical Perspective. Occasional papers. Museum of Texas Tech University, No. 243, 2005, pp. 15-16

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sigrid Carter: Amazing Women: 4 German Girls, 25,000+ of Miles, 18 Months 0 Money. Trafford Publishing, 2016, ISBN 978-1-490-77340-7
personal data
SURNAME Carter, Dilford C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carter, Dilford Campbell (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mammal loge
DATE OF BIRTH 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Abilene , Texas