Samuel B. McDowell

Samuel Booker McDowell Jr. (1928–2014)^[2][3] was an American herpetologist who worked on the comparative anatomy of turtles and snakes,^[3] and studied snakes of Oceania.^[4][5]

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Samuel B. McDowell
Born	Samuel Booker McDowell Jr. September 13, 1928
Died	December 31, 2014(2014-12-31) (aged 86)
Nationality	American
Education	Columbia University B.Sc. (1947) Ph.D. (1957)
Scientific career
Fields	Herpetology
Institutions	AMNH
Author abbrev. (zoology)	McDowell

McDowell earned a B.Sc. (1947) and a Ph.D. (1957) from Columbia University,^[3] and worked at the American Museum of Natural History.^[3] His zoological author abbreviation is McDowell. Several snakes are named in his honor.^[2]

In addition to his scientific work, McDowell was a friend of New Yorker writer A.J. Liebling,^[6] and an occasional contributor to the magazine in the early 1960s.^[7][8]

Some taxa authored

• Acrochordus arafurae
• Emydinae
• Pseudoxenodontinae
• Salomonelaps

Eponyms

The following four snakes are named in honor of McDowell.^[9]

• Hydrophis macdowelli Kharin, 1983
• Tropidonophis mcdowelli Malnate & Underwood, 1988
• Gerrhopilus mcdowelli (Wallach, 1996)
• Candoia paulsoni mcdowelli H.M. Smith & Chiszar, 2001

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a different genus.

Selected publications

• S. B. McDowell (7 July 2010). "The genera of sea-snakes of the Hydrophis group(Serpentes: Elapidae)". Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. 32 (3): 189–247. doi:10.1111/J.1096-3642.1972.TB00028.X. ISSN 0084-5620. Wikidata Q99966086.
• S. B. McDowell (20 August 2009). "On the status and relationships of the Solomon Island elapid snakes". Journal of Zoology. 161 (2): 145–190. doi:10.1111/J.1469-7998.1970.TB02032.X. ISSN 1469-7998. Wikidata Q29030857.
• S. B. McDowell (20 August 2009). "Toxicocalamus, a New Guinea genus of snakes of the family Elapidae". Journal of Zoology. 159 (4): 443–511. doi:10.1111/J.1469-7998.1969.TB03900.X. ISSN 1469-7998. Wikidata Q55868153.
• S. B. McDowell; H. G. Cogger (20 August 2009). "Aspidomorphus, a genus of New Guinea snakes of the Family Elapidae, with notes on related genera". Journal of Zoology: Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 151 (4): 497–543. doi:10.1111/J.1469-7998.1967.TB02130.X. Wikidata Q99966085.
• T Lamb; J W Bickham; J W Gibbons; M J Smolen; S McDowell (1 January 1991). "Genetic damage in a population of slider turtles (Trachemys scripta) inhabiting a radioactive reservoir". Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 20 (1): 138–142. doi:10.1007/BF01065340. ISSN 0090-4341. PMID 1996906. Wikidata Q68201288.
• S. B. McDowell; R. Longmore (5 August 1987). "Atlas of Elapid Snakes of Australia". Copeia (in Spanish). 1987 (3): 824. doi:10.2307/1445691. ISSN 0045-8511. Wikidata Q95637275.