Walter Creighton Brown

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Walter Creighton Brown (born August 8, 1913 in Butte , Montana , † July 15, 2002 in Murphys , California ) was an American herpetologist .

Brown served as a soldier in New Guinea during World War II. He received his doctorate from Stanford University in 1955 and went to Silliman University in the Philippines as a Fulbright Professor .

He specialized in reptiles and amphibians from the South Pacific and the Philippines and first described 65 species of reptiles. Several reptiles are named after him.

literature

  • Beolens, Watkins, Grayson: Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles, Johns Hopkins University Press 2011, p. 41

References and comments

  1. ↑ Peter Uetz: The original descriptions of reptiles, Zootaxa, No. 2335, 2010, 59–68, pdf
personal data
SURNAME Brown, Walter Creighton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American herpetologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Butte , Montana
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 2002
Place of death Murphys , California