Bill Stanley (mammalogist)

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William T. Stanley (c. 1957 – October 6, 2015) was an American mammalogist who was a manager of the collections at one of the world's largest

rodents that live on mountains within Tanzania and surrounding countries.[1]

Biography and notable contributions

Stanley and colleagues discovered multiple species new to science, including

Kiswahili for skulls and skins of mammals of the country.[10]

Stanley organized and led faunal surveys in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. He led safaris for the Field Museum to the Serengeti.[11][failed verification]

Awards and recognition

Stanley has one mouse (

Lophuromys stanleyi)[12] and one frog (Callulina stanleyi)[13]
named in his honor.

Education

Stanley earned an MA at

chipmunks on mountains of the Great Basin. He received a BA (1981–1986) in Biology and Zoology from Humboldt State University. Stanley went to the International School of Kenya
and was home schooled for a year by his mother while on safaris in various natural habitats of eastern Africa.

Personal life

Stanley was born in

salmonid fishes. In 1986, Stanley began working at the Humboldt State University Vertebrate Museum where he dissected and cleaned dead whale specimens that washed up on the beaches of Northern California. He moved to Chicago in 1989 to become Collection Manager, Mammals at the Field Museum of Natural History. He died, apparently of a heart attack, while on a collecting expedition in Ethiopia on October 6, 2015.[14]

References

  1. ^ "Remembering Bill Stanley". Field Museum. December 23, 2015.
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  7. ^ Stanley, W.T.; M.A. Rogers; R. Hutterer (2005). "A morphological assessment of Myosorex zinki, an endemic shrew on Mt Kilimanjaro". Belgian Journal of Zoology. 135 (Supplement): 141–144.
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  10. ^ "Mammals of Tanzania | Home". archive.fieldmuseum.org.
  11. ^ "Support the Museum". Field Museum.
  12. ^ Verheyen, W.N.; Hulselmans, J.L.J.; Dierckx, T.; Mulungu, L.; Leirs, H.; Corti, M.; Verheyen, E. (2007). "The characterization of the Kilimanjaro Lophuromys aquilus TRUE 1892 population and the description of five new Lophuromys species (Rodentia, Muridae)". Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Biologie. 77: 23–75.
  13. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00652.x
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  14. ^ "Bill Stanley, 58, of Field Museum, dies in eithopia". Chicago Tribune. October 7, 2015. Retrieved October 11, 2015.

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External links

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