Frank N. Blanchard
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| Born | December 19, 1888 Massachusetts State College, Amherst, Smithsonian Institution , University of Michigan |
Frank Nelson Blanchard (December 19, 1888 – September 21, 1937) was an American
Acris crepitans blanchardi
.
Born in
Lampropeltis, the king snakes.[1]
From 1913 until 1916, he taught zoology at
Leonhard Hess Stejneger until 1920, when he became a zoology professor at the University of Michigan. In 1922, he published Amphibians and Reptiles of Western Tennessee. For the year of 1927, he took a sabbatical from the university to travel to New Zealand, Australia and Tasmania, primarily to study the tuatara. In 1935, he spent a summer with Howard K. Gloyd, travelling through the southwestern United States, writing a manual of the snakes of the US, which was completed by Gloyd after Blanchard's death. In 1936, Blanchard was elected vice president of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. His most enduring legacy to the field of herpetology is his techniques for studying live animals in the field.[1]
In 1922, Blanchard married Frjeda Blanchard (née Cobb), the geneticist who first demonstrated Mendelian inheritance in reptiles.
Taxa named in honor of Blanchard
Blanchard is commemorated in the scientific names of four taxa of reptiles (two species and two subspecies).[2]
- Geophis blanchardi
- Lampropeltis triangulum blanchardi
- Opheodrys vernalis blanchardi
- Tribolonotus blanchardi
References
- ^ a b c Beltz, Ellin (2006). Biographies of People Honored in the Herpetological Nomenclature of North America
- ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Blanchard", p. 27).
Further reading
- Schmidt, Karl P.; Davis, D. Dwight (1941). Field Book of Snakes of the United States and Canada. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 365 pp., 34 plates. (Frank N. Blanchard, p. 15 + Plate 3).
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