William N. Eschmeyer

William Neil Eschmeyer, also known as Bill Eschmeyer, U.S. taxonomist and ichthyologist. Founder and developer of the database and reference work Catalog of Fishes, hosted by the California Academy of Sciences and available both on-line and in print.

• Curator Emeritus, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California
• Research Associate, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, Florida

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 8 taxon names authored by William N. Eschmeyer

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1980

• Poss, S.G. & Eschmeyer, W.N. 1980. Xenaploactis, a new genus for Prosopodasys asperrimus Günther (Pisces: Aploactinidae), with descriptions of two new species. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, (Series 4) 42(8): 287–293. BHL Reference page. 

2011

• Eschmeyer, W.N. & Fong, J.D. 2011. Pisces. Pp 26–38 In Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 1–237. Open access. Reference page. . Full article (PDF) Reference page. 
• van der Land, J., Costello, M.J., Zavodnik, D., Santos, R.S., Porteiro, F.M., Bailly, N., Eschmeyer, W.N. & Froese, R. 2001. Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) 2001. European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels 50: pp. 357–374. Reference page. 

2014

• Laan, R. van der, Eschmeyer, W.N. & Fricke, R. 2014. Family-group names of Recent fishes. Zootaxa 3882(1): 1–230. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 Reference page. 

References

Links

• FLMNH Ichthyology Department: Ichthyology Staff and Students
• Catalog of Fishes