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.

1990

Eschmeyer, W.N. 1990. Catalog of the genera of recent fishes. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco; 697 pp. ISBN 0-940228-23-8 Internet Archive Reference page.

1998

Eschmeyer, W.N. 1998. Catalog of fishes. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. Reference page.

2001

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.

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.

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