Raymond B. Manning

Raymond Brendan Manning (born October 11, 1934 in Brooklyn , New York City , † January 18, 2000 in Arlington , Virginia ), was an American zoologist and taxonomist .

Life

Raymond B. Manning was born in Brooklyn on October 11, 1934. Shortly after he was born, his mother, Elizabeth Smith, moved with him to Haiti . During the Second World War they lived in Bethesda , Maryland , but after the end of the same they moved back to Haiti to the house of his stepfather, Franklin Brown Manning, in Port-au-Prince . At the age of twelve he was sent to St. Leo boarding school in Tempa , Florida .

From 1952 to 1954 he attended the University of Florida at Gainesville and received his Bachelor of Science in Zoology (1956), his Master of Science in Marine Biology (1959) and his Ph.D. in Marine Biology (1963) from the University of Miami and was immediately employed as an Associate Curator at the Smithsonian Institution . In 1967 he became chairman of the Department of Invertebrate Zoology at the National Museum of Natural History . He was a lecturer at the University of Maryland , George Washington University, and the University of Miami.

He was a founding member of the Crustacean Society in 1979 and president of the same from 1981 to 1983. He was also a member of the Cosmos Club . He also collected over 50,000 specimens of decapods (Decapoda) and mantis shrimp (Stomatopoda) for the National Museum of Natural History and other institutions.

Raymond B. Manning was married to Lilly King (1935-2010) since 1957, who illustrated many of his publications. He named two species in her honor: Platysquilloides lillyae and Viridotheres lillyae . They had a daughter together. He lived with his wife in Vienna , Virginia until his death on January 18, 2000 at Arlington Hospital .

Works (selection)

Within four decades of his creative period he published 282 scientific publications , describing 279 species , 138 genera , 5 subfamilies, 19 families and 3 superfamilies.

Raymond B. Manning, Lipke Bijdeley Holthuis : West African Brachyuran Crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda) (= Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology . Number 306). Smithsonian Institution Press, City of Washington 1981 (379 pp.).
Lipke Bijdeley Holthuis, Raymond B. Manning: Crabs of the Subfamily Dorippinae Macleay, 1838, from the Indo-West Pacific Region (Crustacea: Decapoda: Dorippidae) (= Researches on Crustacea . Special No. 3). The Carcinological Society of Japan, Kumamoto, Japan 1990 (151 pp.).
Stomatopod Crustacea of Vietnam . The Legacy of Raoul Serène (= Crustacean Research . Special No. 4). The Carcinological Society of Japan, Kumamoto, Japan 1995 (339 pp.).

Honors

On May 29, 1999, he was awarded The Crustacean Society's Excellence in Research Award in recognition of his achievements over the past 40 years. In addition, numerous genera and species were named in his honor:

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literature

Rafael Lemaitre , Karen Reed: Raymond B. Manning: Biographical Sketch and Bibliography . In: Journal of Crustacean Biology . Vol. 20, Special No. 2, 2000, pp. ii-xi , doi : 10.1163 / 1937240X-90000001 .
Paul F. Clark , Frederick R. Schram : Raymond B. Manning: An Appreciation . In: Journal of Crustacean Biology . Vol. 29, No. 4, 2009, p. 431-457 , doi : 10.1651 / 09-3158.1 .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Obituaries. In: The Washington Post . January 22, 2000, accessed September 18, 2016 .

^ ^A ^b Fenner A. Chace Jr .: Invertebrate Zoology Department History. A Brief History of the Invertebrate Zoology Department. In: National Museum of Natural History . Retrieved September 18, 2016 .

↑ Christopher Tudge : Lilly King Manning . In: The Ecdysiast . Newsletter of The Crustacean Society. Volume 29, Number 2, 2010, pp. 15 ( The Crustacean Society [PDF]). The Crustacean Society ( Memento of the original from September 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
^ Raymond B. Manning: A Monograph of the West African Stomatopod Crustacea (= Atlantide Report . No. 12). Scandinavian Science Press, Copenhagen 1977, pp. 68 (Described as Allosquilla lillyae ): "Named for my wife Lilly, who has contributed much to the completion of this report."
^ Raymond B. Manning: West African pinnotherid crabs, subfamily Pinnotherinae (Crustacea Decapoda, Brachyura) . In: Bulletin du Museum national d'histoire naturelle . 4e sér., 15, section A, nos. 1-4. Paris 1993, p. 157 (Described as Nepinnotheres lillyae ): "Named for my wife Lilly, whose support and artistic talent have contributed to all of my studies of systematics of crustacecans."
^ Hans G. Hansson: Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names. M. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 27, 2012 ; accessed on September 18, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. See also Clark & Schram 2009. @1@ 2

Web links

Contributions by Raymond B. Manning to the Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology

personal data
SURNAME	Manning, Raymond B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Manning, Raymond Brendan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American zoologist and taxonomist
DATE OF BIRTH	October 11, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH	Brooklyn , New York City
DATE OF DEATH	January 18, 2000
Place of death	Arlington , Virginia

[washingtonpost-1] Obituaries. In: The Washington Post . January 22, 2000, accessed September 18, 2016 .

[nmnh-2] A ^b Fenner A. Chace Jr .: Invertebrate Zoology Department History. A Brief History of the Invertebrate Zoology Department. In: National Museum of Natural History . Retrieved September 18, 2016 .