Carl Wilhelm Erich Zimmer (

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, 29 September 1873 – Hüll bei Wolnzach, 8 November 1950) was a German

zoologist Zoology ()The pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon. is the branch of biology that studies the Animal, animal kingdom, including the anatomy, structure, embryology, evolution, Biological clas ...

specialising in

crustacean Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean group ...

s, especially the

order Order, ORDER or Orders may refer to: * Categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood * Heterarchy, a system of organization wherein the elements have the potential to be ranked a number of d ...

Cumacea Cumacea is an order of small marine crustaceans of the superorder Peracarida, occasionally called hooded shrimp or comma shrimp. Their unique appearance and uniform body plan makes them easy to distinguish from other crustaceans. They live in so ...

. He studied zoology at the universities of

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and Breslau, receiving his doctorate in 1897. In 1912 he was appointed second director at the Zoological State Collection of Munich, where in 1917 he became director. From 1924 to 1937 he was a full professor and director of the zoological museum in Berlin. The crustacean genus ''Zimmeriana'' (Hale, 1946; family

Gynodiastylidae Gynodiastylidae is one of the eight most commonly recognised families of crustaceans of the order Cumacea. They are especially prevalent in the southern hemisphere, with some types described from Japan, Thailand and the Persian Gulf. Most are fou ...

) commemorates his name, as do species with the epithet of ''zimmeri'', including three species of frogs ('' Arthroleptis zimmeri'', '' Oreophryne zimmeri'', and '' Pseudophilautus zimmeri)'' and a species of lizard ('' Sphenomorphus zimmeri)''. He is the taxonomic authority for the krill species '' Euphausia hanseni''.

Selected publications

*''Die Cumaceen der "Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition"'', 1908 – Cumacea from the German Deepsea-Expedition. (in German). *''Südwestafrikanische Schizopoden'', 1912 – Southwest African

Schizopoda Schizopoda is a former Taxonomy (biology), taxonomical classification of a division of the Class (biology), class Malacostraca. Although it was split in 1883 by Johan Erik Vesti Boas into the two distinct order (biology), orders Mysidacea and Eupha ...

. (in German). *''Untersuchungen an diastyliden (Ordnung Cumacea)'', 1930 – Research of

Diastylidae Diastylidae is one of the eight most commonly recognised families of crustaceans of the order Cumacea. They are marine creatures especially common around the 30th parallel north. Anatomy Diastylidae have a medium to large, free telson, that has ...

(order Cumacea). (in German). *"

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Crustacea of the order Cumacea"; translated into English, 1937. *''Cumacea'', 1941. *"Cumaceans of the American Atlantic boreal coast region (Crustacea,

Peracarida The superorder Peracarida is a large group of malacostracan crustaceans, having members in marine, freshwater, and terrestrial habitats. They are chiefly defined by the presence of a brood pouch, or ''marsupium'', formed from thin flattened plat ...

)"; translated into English, 1979.WorldCat Identities
(publications).

References

20th-century German zoologists German carcinologists 1873 births 1950 deaths People from Sondershausen Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin University of Breslau alumni {{Germany-zoologist-stub