Carl H. Eigenmann

Carl Henry Eigenmann (March 9, 1863 – April 24, 1927), German-born American ichthyologist. Husband of U.S. ichthyologist Rosa Smith Eigenmann.

Author abbreviation: C.H.Eigenmann

Taxon names authored

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194 taxon names authored by Carl H. Eigenmann

Publications edit

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1887 edit

Eigenmann, C.H. 1887. Description of a new species of Ophichthys (Ophichthys retropinnis), from Pensacola, Fla. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 10(613): 116.
Eigenmann, C.H. 1887. Notes on the specific names of certain North American fishes. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 39: 295–296.

1888 edit

Eigenmann, C.H. & Eigenmann, R.S. 1888. A list of the American species of Gobiidae and Callionymidae, with notes on the specimens contained in the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, at Cambridge, Massachusetts. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Series 2) 1(1): 51–78. Reference page.
Eigenmann, C.H. & Eigenmann, R.S. 1888. Preliminary notes on South American Nematognathi. I. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Series 2) 1(2): 119–172. BHL Reference page.

1889 edit

Eigenmann, C.H. & Eigenmann, R.S. 1889. Description of a new species of Cyprinodon. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Series 2), 1: 270. Reference page.
Eigenmann, C.H. & Eigenmann, R.S. 1889. Preliminary notes on South American Nematognathi. II. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Series 2) 2: 28–56. BHL Reference page.
Jordan, D.S. & Eigenmann, C.H. 1889. A review of the Sciaenidae of America and Europe. United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, Report of the Commissioner 14 (for 1886) (art. 3): 343–451, Pls. 1–4. BHL Reference page.

1890 edit

Eigenmann, C.H. & Eigenmann, R.S. 1890. Additions to the fauna of San Diego. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Series 2) 3: 1–24. BHL Reference page.
Eigenmann, C.H. 1890. The evolution of catfishes. Zoe, A Biological Journal, 1 (1), 10–15.
Eigenmann, C.H. 1890. The Point Loma blind fish and its relatives. Zoe, A Biological Journal 1(3): 65–72, Pls. 2–3.

1891 edit

Eigenmann, C.H. 1891. A new diodont. American Naturalist 25(300): 1133.
Eigenmann, C.H. & Eigenmann, R.S. 1891. A catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of South America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum vol. 14 (No. 842): 1–81. BHL Reference page.

1892 edit

Eigenmann, C.H. 1892. The Percopsidae on the Pacific slope. Science 20(507): 233–234.

1893 edit

Eigenmann, C.H. 1893. Catalogue of the fresh-water fishes of Central America and southern Mexico. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 16(925): 53–60.

1894 edit

Eigenmann, C.H. 1894. On the viviparous fishes of the Pacific Coast of North America. Bulletin of the U. S. Fish Commission 12 [1892]: 381–478.
Eigenmann, C.H. 1894. Notes on some South American fishes. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 7(art. 5): 625–637.
Eigenmann, C.H. 1894. Results of explorations in western Canada and the northwestern United States. Bulletin of the U. S. Fish Commission 14 (for 1894): 101–132, Pls. 5–8.
Eigenmann, C.H. & Bray, W.L. 1894. A revision of the American Cichlidae. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 7(4): 607–624. BHL Reference page.

1897 edit

Eigenmann, C.H. 1897. Steindachneria. American Naturalist 31: 158–159.

1898 edit

Eigenmann, C.H. 1898. The Amblyopsidae and eyes of blind fishes. Proceedings of the Indiana Academy Science 7 (for 1897): 230–231.
Eigenmann, C.H. 1898. On the Amblyopsidae. Science (new series) 7(164): 227.
Eigenmann, C.H. 1898. A new blind fish. Proceedings of the Indiana Academy Science 7 (for 1897): 231.
Eigenmann, C.H. 1898. The Amblyopsidae, the blind fish of America. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 67th Meeting [1897]: 685–686.

1899 edit

Eigenmann, C.H. 1899. A case of convergence. Science (new series) 9(217): 280–282.
Eigenmann, C.H. 1899. Degeneration in the eyes of the Amblyopsidae, its plan, process and causes. Proceedings of the Indiana Academy Science 8 (for 1898): 239–241.
Eigenmann, C.H. 1899. A case of convergence. Proceedings of the Indiana Academy Science 8 (for 1898): 247–251.

1900 edit

Eigenmann, C.H. 1900. Degeneration in the eyes of the cold-blooded vertebrates of the North American caves. Science (new series) 11(274): 492–503.
Eigenmann, C.H. & Norris, A.A. 1900. Sobre alguns peixes de S. Paulo, Brazil. Revista do Museu Paulista 4: 349–362. BHL Reference page.

1903 edit

Eigenmann, C.H. 1903. The fresh-water fishes of western Cuba. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 22: 211–236, plates 19–21. Full article (PDF). Reference page.
Eigenmann, C.H. 1903. New genera of South American fresh-water fishes, and new names for old genera. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 45: 144–148. Reference page.
Eigenmann, C.H. & Kennedy, C.H. 1903. On a collection of fishes from Paraguay, with a synopsis of the American genera of cichlids. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 55: 497–537. BHL Reference page.

1907 edit

Eigenmann. C.H. & Ogle, F. 1907. An annotated list of characin fishes in the United States National Museum and the Museum of Indiana University, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 33 (no. 1556): 1–36. BHL Reference page.
Eigenmann, C.H., McAtee, W.L. & Ward, D.P. 1907. On further collections of fishes from Paraguay. Annals of the Carnegie Museum v. 4 (no. 2): 110–157, Pls. 31–45. BHL Reference page.
Eigenmann, C.H. 1907. Fowler's "Heterognathus Fishes" with a note on the Stethaprioninae. The American Naturalist 41(492): 767–772.

1908 edit

Eigenmann, C.H. 1908. Preliminary descriptions of new genera and species of tetragonopterid characins. (Zoölogical Results of the Thayer Brazilian expedition.). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 52(6): 91–106. BHL Reference page.

1909 edit

Eigenmann, C.H. 1909. Reports on the expedition to British Guiana of the Indiana University and the Carnegie Museum, 1908. Report no. 1. Some new genera and species of fishes from British Guiana. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 6(1): 4–54. BHL Reference page.

1911 edit

Eigenmann, C.H. 1911. New characins in the collection of the Carnegie Museum. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 8(1): 164–181, Pls. 4–9. BHL Reference page.

1912 edit

Eigenmann, C.H. 1912. Some results from an ichthyological reconnaissance of Colombia, South America. Part I. (Contrib. Zool. Lab. Ind. Univ. No. 127.). Indiana University Studies, No. 16 [sic No. 8]: 1–27. [Cover date Sept. 1912, issued 23 Dec. 1912, No. 8 on cover, is No. 16.] Reference page.
Eigenmann, C.H. 1912. The freshwater fishes of British Guiana, including a study of the ecological grouping of species, and the relation of the fauna of the plateau to that of the lowlands. Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum 5(1): i–xxii + 1–578, Pls. 1–103. BHL Reference page.

1913 edit

Eigenmann, C.H. 1913. Some results from an ichthyological reconnaissance of Colombia, South America. Part II. [Includes 5 separate subtitles.] (Contrib. Zool. Lab. Ind. Univ. No. 131). Indiana University Studies 18: 1–32. Reference page.

1914 edit

Eigenmann, C.H. 1914. Some results from studies of South American fishes. IV. New genera and species of South American fishes. (Contrib. Zool. Lab. Ind. Univ. No. 135). Indiana University Studies No. 20: 44–48. Reference page.
Eigenmann, C.H., Henn, A.W. & Wilson, C. 1914. New fishes from western Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. (Contrib. Zool. Lab. Ind. Univ. No. 133.) Indiana University Studies 19: 1–15. Reference page.

1915 edit

Eigenmann, C.H. 1915. The Cheirodontinae, a subfamily of minute characid fishes of South America. Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum 7(1): 1–99, Pls. 1–17. BHL Reference page.

1917 edit

Eigenmann, C.H. 1917. Descriptions of sixteen new species of Pygidiidae. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 56: 690–703. BHL Reference page.

1922 edit

Eigenmann, C.H. 1922. The fishes of western South America, Part I. The fresh-water fishes of northwestern South America, including Colombia, Panama, and the Pacific slopes of Ecuador and Peru, together with an appendix upon the fishes of the Rio Meta in Colombia. Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum v. 9 (no. 1): 1–346, Pls. 1–38. Reference page.

1928 edit

Eigenmann, C.H. 1928. The fresh-water fishes of Chile. Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences v. 22 (no. 2): 1–63, Pls. 1–16. Reference page.

1929 edit

Eigenmann, C.H. & Myers, G.S. 1929. The American Characidae [Part 5, and incl. Supplement by G.S. Myers, pp. 516–550]. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology v. 43 (pt 5): 429–558, Pls. 57, 63, 70–74, 81–83, 94. Reference page.

1942 edit

Eigenmann, C.H. & Allen, W.R. 1942. Fishes of western South America. I. The intercordilleran and Amazonian lowlands of Peru. II. The high pampas of Peru, Bolivia, and northern Chile. With a revision of the Peruvian Gymnotidae, and of the genus Orestias. Univ. Kentucky. Fishes of Western South America i–xv + 1–494.