Elliot Watson Dawson

Elliot Watson Dawson (1930 – November 11, 2019), New Zealander biologist.

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(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Dawson, E.W. 1949. Excavation of a Maori Burial, at Longbeach, Otago; With Notes on Associated Artifacts. The Journal of the Polynesian Society 58(2): 58–63. JSTOR Reference page.

Yaldwyn, J.C. & Dawson, E.W. 1970. The stone crab Lithodes murrayi Henderson: the first New Zealand record. Records of the Dominion Museum 6(17): 275–284. Reference page.

Dawson, E.W. 1971: On the proper usage of the name Terebratulina hedleyi Finlay, 1927 for Cancellothyris australis Thomson, 1927 (Brachiopoda). Records of the Dominion Museum, 7(16): 151–154. Reference page.
Dawson, E.W. & Yaldwyn, J.C. 1971. Diagnosis of a new species of Paralomis (Crustacea, Anomura, Lithodidae) from New Zealand. Records of the Dominion Museum 7(7): 51–54. PDF. Reference page.

Dawson, E.W. & Yaldwyn, J.C. 2000. Description and ecological distribution of a new frog crab (Crustacea, Brachyura, Raninidae) from northern New Zealand waters, with keys to Recent raninid genera and Notosceles species. Tuhinga 11: 47–71. Online PDF Reference page.

Glasby, C.J., Read, G.B., Lee, K.E., Blakemore, R.J., Fraser, P.M., Pinder, A.M., Erséus, C., Moser, W.E., Burreson, E.M., Govedich, F.R., Davies, R.W. & Dawson, E.W. 2009. 17. Phylum Annelida: bristleworms, earthworms, leeches. Pp. 312–358. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.). 2009. New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume 1. Kingdom Animalia. Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press: Christchurch, New Zealand. ISBN 978-1-87725772-8. Reference page. Reference page.