Carl Wilhelm Erich Zimmer
Carl Wilhelm Erich Zimmer (
.He studied zoology at the universities of
Zoological State Collection of Munich, where in 1917 he became director. From 1924 to 1937 he was a full professor and director of the zoological museum in Berlin.[1][2]
The crustacean genus Zimmeriana (Hale, 1946; family Gynodiastylidae) commemorates his name, as do species with the epithet of zimmeri,[3] including three species of frogs (Arthroleptis zimmeri, Oreophryne zimmeri, and Pseudophilautus zimmeri)[4] and a species of lizard (Sphenomorphus zimmeri).[5] He is the taxonomic authority for the krill species Euphausia hanseni.
Selected publications
- Die Cumaceen der "Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition", 1908 – Cumacea from the German Deepsea-Expedition. (in German).
- Südwestafrikanische Schizopoden, 1912 – Southwest African Schizopoda. (in German).
- Untersuchungen an diastyliden (Ordnung Cumacea), 1930 – Research of Diastylidae (order Cumacea). (in German).
- "California Crustacea of the order Cumacea"; translated into English, 1937.
- Cumacea, 1941.
- "Cumaceans of the American Atlantic boreal coast region (Crustacea, Peracarida)"; translated into English, 1979.[6]
References
- ^ Thies - Zymalkowski / edited by Rudolf Vierhaus Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopaedie.
- ^ Lexikon deutschsprachiger Bryologen, Volume 1 by Jan-Peter Frahm, Jens Eggers.
- ^ "Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names". Archived from the original on 2006-04-05. Retrieved 2005-07-14.
- ISBN 978-1-907807-42-8.
- ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5.
- ^ WorldCat Identities (publications).
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