Robert Kennicott

Robert Kennicott (1835–1866) U.S. naturalist and ⧼herpetologis⧽.

Taxon names authored

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• 35 taxon names authored by Robert Kennicott

Eponyms

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• 3 eponyms of Robert Kennicott

plus:

• Phylloscopus borealis kennicottii (Baird, 1869)
• Acipenser kennicottii Duméril, 1870 (synonym of Acipenser oxyrinchus)
• Beringius kennicottii (Dall, 1871)
• Suavodrillia kennicotti Dall, 1871
• Coregonus kennicotti Milner, 1883 (synonym of Coregonus nasus)

Publications

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1856

• Kennicott, R. 1856. Description of a new snake from Illinois. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 8: 95–96. BHL Reference page. 

1859

• Kennicott, R. 1859. Notes on Coluber calligaster of Say, and a description of a new species of Serpents in the collection of the north Western University of Evanston, Ill. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 11: 98–100. BHL Reference page. 

1860

• Kennicott, R. 1860. Descriptions of new species of North American serpents in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 12: 328–338. BHL Reference page. 

1861

• Kennicott, R. 1861. On three new forms of rattlesnakes. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 13: 206–208. BHL Reference page. 

1863

• Kennicott, R. 1863. Descriptions of four new species of Spermophilus, in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 15: 157–158. BHL Reference page.