Dwight Willard Taylor

Dwight Willard Taylor (1932–2006)Coan E. V., Kabat A. R. & Petit R. E. (15 February 2009)

830 pp. & 32 pp. nnex of Collations American Malacological Society was an American malacologist and paleontologist, a researcher on mollusks. His undergraduate work was at the University of California, Berkeley and his PhD was from Harvard University.

He was instrumental in the creation of the malacological journal, ''Malacologia''.

Taxa

Taylor named and described 132Kabat A. R. & Johnson R. I. (2008). "Dwight Willard Taylor (1932–2006): His Life And Malacological Research". ''Malacologia'' 50(1): 175-218. . new taxa of gastropods, mostly freshwater snails in the families Hydrobiidae and Physidae, including:
* '' Mexipyrgus'' Taylor, 1966, in the Hydrobiidae
* ''Coahuilix hubbsi'' Taylor, 1966, in the Hydrobiidae

A number of taxa of non-marine mollusca were named in honor of him, including:
* The freshwater snail genus '' Taylorconcha'' Hershler et al., 1994, in the Hydrobiidae.

Publications

Publications by Dwight Willard Taylor include:

* TAYLOR, D. W., 1949a 9 March STS winner writes. ''Science News Letter'' 55(12): 182 xcerpt of Taylor 1949b
* TAYLOR, D. W., 1949b ovember A malacological survey of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. Pp. 18–21 and back cover, in: How you can search for science talent: a book of facts about the Ninth Annual Science Talent Search for Westinghouse Science Scholarships. Washington, D.C., Science Clubs of America/Science Service.
* TAYLOR, D. W., 1950 1 January Three new Pyrgulopsis from the Colorado Desert, California. ''Leaflets in Malacology'', 1(7): 27–33.
* TAYLOR, D. W., 1952 0 July Notes on the freshwater mollusks of Yellowstone Park, Wyoming. ''Leaflets in Malacology'', 1(9): 43–49, 1 pl.
* TAYLOR, D. W., 1954a 0 January A new Promenetus (Planorbidae) from Panama. Revista de la Sociedad Malacólogica "Carlos de la Torre" avana 9(2): 37–38.
* TAYLOR, D. W., 1954b ay Some Late Cenozoic Molluscan Faunas from Kansas and Nebraska. Master's Thesis, University of California, Berkeley. 188 pp. npublished
* TAYLOR, D. W., 1954c une Nonmarine molluscs from Barstow Formation of southern California. United States Geological Survey, Professional Paper, 254C: 67–80, plate 20.
* TAYLOR, D. W., 1954d 3 August A new Pleistocene fauna and new species of fossil snails from the High Plains. Occasional Papers, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 577: 1–16.
* TAYLOR, D. W. & C. W. HIBBARD, 1955, A new Pleistocene fauna from Harper County, Oklahoma. Oklahoma Geological Survey, Circular, 37: 1–23.
* TAYLOR, D. W., 1956, Pliocene mollusks from Jackson Hole, Grand Valley, and Star Valley, Wyoming and Idaho. Pp. 123–125, 1 pl., in: Guidebook, Wyoming Geological Association, 11th Annual Field Conference, 1956, Jackson Hole. 256 pp.
* TAYLOR, D. W., 1957a anuary Late Cenozoic paleoecology and molluscan faunas of the High Plains. Ph.D. Thesis, University of California, Berkeley. vii + 351 pp. npublished; not seen; listed by title only in "Index to American Doctoral Dissertations 1956–1957", p. 102 (1958)
* TAYLOR, D. W., 1957b 3 June Pliocene fresh-water mollusks from Navajo County, Arizona. ''Journal of Paleontology'', 31(3): 654–661.
* ROBINSON, G. D., G. E. LEWIS & D. W. TAYLOR, 1957 ecember Eocene continental deposits in Three Forks Basin, Montana. ''Geological Society of America Bulletin'', 68(12) art 2 1786 bstract of paper presented at GSA meeting, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1–3 November 1957
* HERRINGTON, H. B. & D. W. TAYLOR, 1958 5 August Pliocene and Pleistocene Sphaeriidae (Pelecypoda) from the central United States. Occasional Papers, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 596: 1–128, 1 pl. ew taxa by Herrington alone
* TAYLOR, D. W., 1958 2 December Geologic range and relationships of the freshwater snail Anisus pattersoni. ''Journal of Paleontology'', 32(6): 1149–1153.
* TAYLOR, D. W., 1960a pril? Distribution of the freshwater clam Pisidium ultramontanum; a zoogeographic inquiry. American Journal of Science, 258A: 325–334, 1 pl. + errata ote: MCZ issue received on 25 April 1960; USNM issue received on 27 April 1960
* HIBBARD, C. W. & D. W. TAYLOR, 1960 July Two Late Pleistocene faunas from southwestern Kansas. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, The University of Michigan, 16(1): 1–223, pls. 1–16 ew mammalian taxa by Hibbard alone
* TAYLOR, D. W., 1960b uly? Late Cenozoic molluscan faunas from the High Plains. ''United States Geological Survey Professional Paper'', 337: iv + 94 pp., pls. 1–4 ote: Library of Congress issue received on 7 July 1960; Univ. of Washington issue received on 21 July 1960
* TAYLOR, D. W., 1961a April The freshwater clam Pisidium ultramontanum Prime in Modoc County, California. ''The Veliger'', 3(4): 111.
* TAYLOR, D. W., 1961b 7 November Comments on the proposed suppression of Paludina lustrica Say, 1821. Z.N.(S.) 730. ''Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature'', 18(6): 379.
* TAYLOR, D. W. & H. B. HERRINGTON, 1962 January The freshwater clam Pisidium tremperi (Hannibal). ''The Veliger'', 4(3): 129–131, plate 28.
* McKENNA, M. C., P. ROBINSON & D. W. TAYLOR, 1962 2 September Notes on Eocene Mammalia and Mollusca from Tabernacle Butte, Wyoming. ''American Museum Novitates'', 2102: 1–33 escription of mollusks by Taylor alone
* LOVE, J. D. & D. W. TAYLOR, 1962 ovember? Faulted Pleistocene strata near Jackson, northwestern Wyoming. United States Geological Survey, Professional Paper, 450-D: D136–D139 ote: Library of Congress issue received on 8 November 1962; Univ. of Washington issue received on 26 November 1962
* TAYLOR, D. W. & N. F. SOHL, 1962 4 November An outline of gastropod classification. ''Malacologia'', 1(1): 7–32.
* TAYLOR, D. W., 1963a pril Mollusks of the Black Butte local fauna. Pages 35–41, in: J. A. SHOTWELL, ed., The Juntura Basin: studies in earth history and paleoecology. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, (n.s.) 53(1): 1–77.
* TAYLOR, D. W., H. J. WALTER & J. B. BURCH, 1963 August Freshwater snails of the subgenus Hinkleyia (Lymnaeidae: Stagnicola) from the western United States. ''Malacologia'', 1(2): 237–281, 4 pls.
* RUBIN, M. & D. W. TAYLOR, 1963 6 August Radiocarbon activity of shells from living clams and snails. ''Science'', 141(3581): 637.
* TAYLOR, D. W., 1963b October Erroneous records of freshwater clams (Spaheriidae) from California. ''The Veliger'', 6(2): 111.
* TAYLOR, D. W., 1964 ovember Historical analysis of distribution of west American freshwater molluscs. ''American Zoologist'', 4(4): 436–437 bstract of paper presented at American Society of Zoologists meeting, Knoxville, Tennessee, 28 December 1964
* McCULLOCH, D. S., D. W. TAYLOR & M. RUBIN, 1965 ay Stratigraphy, non-marine mollusks, and radiometric dates from Quaternary deposits in the Kotzebue Sound area, western Alaska. ''Journal of Geology'', 73(3): 442–453.
* GREGG, W. O. & D. W. TAYLOR, 1965 1 August Fontelicella (Prosobranchia: Hydrobiidae), a new genus of west American freshwater snails. ''Malacologia'', 3(1): 103–110.
* TAYLOR, D. W., 1965, The study of Pleistocene nonmarine mollusks in North America. Pp. 597–611, in: H. E. WRIGHT & D. G. FREY, eds., The Quaternary of the United States; a Review Volume for the VII Congress of the International Association for Quaternary Research. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press. x + 922 pp.
* HIBBARD, C. W., C. E. RAY, D. E. SAVAGE, D. W. TAYLOR & J. E. GUILDAY, 1965, Quaternary mammals of North America. Pp. 509–525, in: H. E. WRIGHT & D. G. FREY, eds., The Quaternary of the United States; a Review Volume for the VII Congress of the International Association for Quaternary Research. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press. x + 922 pp.
* TAYLOR, D. W., 1966a January An eastern American freshwater mussel, Anodonta, introduced into Arizona. ''The Veliger'', 8(3): 197–198, plate 28.
* TAYLOR, D. W. & T. UYENO, 1966 0 January December 1965" Evolution of host specificity of freshwater salmonid fishes and mussels in the North Pacific region. ''Venus'', 24(3): 199–209 n Japanese; English abstract
* TAYLOR, D. W., 1966b 8 August Summary of North American Blancan nonmarine mollusks. ''Malacologia'', 4(1): 1–172, pls. 1–8. ote: this journal issue contained three "papers planned for the VII Congress of the International Association for Quaternary Research"
* TAYLOR, D. W. & W. L. MINCKLEY, 1966 ugust September–October" New world for biologists. ''Pacific Discovery'', 19(5): 18–22, 6 pls., 1 map ibrary of Congress issue received 29 August 1966; USNM issue received on 8 Sept. 1966
* TAYLOR, D. W., 1966c October A remarkable snail fauna from Coahuila, México. ''The Veliger'', 9(2): 152–228, pls. 8–19.
* TAYLOR, D. W., 1966d October Review A preliminary checklist of invertebrates collected from Lake Tahoe, 1961–1964, by Ted C. Frantz and Almo J. Cardone. Biological Society of Nevada, Occasional Papers, 8: 1–12 (15 January 1966)" ''The Veliger'', 9(2): 253.
* TAYLOR, D. W., 1967a 2 February December 1, 1966" A remarkable snail fauna from Coahuila, Mexico. Report of the American Malacological Union for 1966: 70–72 bstract of paper presented at meeting of the AMU-Pacific Division, Seattle, Washington, 19–22 June 1966
* TAYLOR, D. W., 1967b August Freshwater clam Sphaerium transversum (Say) in Arizona. ''Southwestern Naturalist'', 12(2): 202–203.
* TAYLOR, D. W., 1967c October Freshwater mollusks collected by the United States and Mexican Boundary Surveys. ''The Veliger'', 10(2): 152–158.
* TAYLOR, D. W., 1967d ctober Late Pleistocene molluscan shells from the Tule Springs area. In: H. M. WORMINGTON & D. ELLIS, eds., Pleistocene studies in southern Nevada. ''Nevada State Museum Anthropological Papers'', 13: 395–399.
* TAYLOR, D. W., 1968 0 March Late Pleistocene nonmarine mollusks from the State of Puebla, Mexico. ''Annual Report of the American Malacological Union'', 34: 76–78 bstract of paper that "was announced but was not presented" at meeting of the AMU-Pacific Division, Pacific Grove, California, 28 June – 1 July 1967 (Hanselman, 1968: 66)
* LONG, G. E. & D. W. TAYLOR, 1970 March Estuarine mollusks of the Cholla Bay, Sonora, Mexico. The Echo (Western Society of Malacologists), 2: 17–18, 39 bstract of paper presented at meeting of the WSM, Pacific Grove, California, 18–21 June 1969
* TAYLOR, D. W., 1970a 0 June West American freshwater Mollusca, 1: bibliography of Pleistocene and Recent species. Memoirs, San Diego Society of Natural History, 4: 1–73, 1 plate.
* TAYLOR, D. W., 1970b 4 November Symposium on the rare and endangered mollusks of North America, 4. Western freshwater mollusks. ''Malacologia'', 10(1): 33–34 ith summary of Taylor's manuscript by Harold D. Murray; Taylor did not attend this symposium (The American Malacological Union, Inc., Annual Reports for 1968, Bulletin, 35: 3)
* TAYLOR, D. W. & A. G. SMITH, 1971 April Harold Hannibal (1889–1965) with a review of his molluscan research. ''The Veliger'', 13(4): 303–316, 5 pls.
* TAYLOR, D. W., 1974 5 July The Tertiary gastropod Orygoceras found living. Archiv für Molluskenkunde, 104(1–3): 93–96. eprinted (1974), with Hungarian title, "Elö harmadkori Orygocerasok," and Hungarian abstract, Soosiana, 2: 37–44
* TAYLOR, D. W., 1975, Index and bibliography of Late Cenozoic freshwater Mollusca of western North America. Claude W. Hibbard Memorial Volume 1. Papers on Paleontology (Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan), 10: 1–384 ne-page errata issued in 1976
* TAYLOR, D. W., 1978 ebruary Comments on the proposed designation of a type-species for Pleurocera Rafinesque, 1818. Z.N.(S.) 83. ''Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature'', 34(4): 199.
* TAYLOR, D. W., 1981 uly Freshwater mollusks of California: a distributional checklist. ''California Fish and Game'', 67(3): 140–163.
* TAYLOR, D. W. & G. R. SMITH, 1981 1 December Pliocene molluscs and fishes from northeastern California and northwestern Nevada. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, The University of Michigan, 25(18): 339–413, 19 pls.
* TAYLOR, D. W., 1983 1 December Late Tertiary mollusks from the lower Colorado River Valley. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, The University of Michigan, 26(13): 289–298.
* TAYLOR, D. W. & E. H. JOKINEN, 1984 November A new species of freshwater snail (Physa) from seasonal habitats in Connecticut. ''Freshwater Invertebrate Biology'', 3(4): 189–202.
* TAYLOR, D. W., 1985a ebruary Pecosorbis, a new genus of fresh-water snails (Planorbidae) from New Mexico. New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources, Circular, 194: 1–17.
* TAYLOR, D. W., 1985b, Miocene freshwater mollusks from the Clarkia fossil site, Idaho. Pp. 73–74, in: C. J. SMILEY, ed., Late Cenozoic history of the Pacific Northwest: Interdisciplinary Studies on the Clarkia Fossil Beds of Northern Idaho. American Association for the Advancement of Science, Pacific Division, San Francisco. 417 pp.
* TAYLOR, D. W., 1985c, Evolution of freshwater drainages and molluscs in western North America. Pp. 265–321, in: C. J. SMILEY, ed., Late Cenozoic history of the Pacific Northwest: Interdisciplinary Studies on the Clarkia Fossil Beds of Northern Idaho. American Association for the Advancement of Science, Pacific Division, San Francisco. 417 pp.
* CONEY, C. C. & D. W. TAYLOR, 1986 1 January 1985" Systematic position of Quincuncina mitchelli (Simpson, 1896). Annual Report, Western Society of Malacologists, 18: 12–13 Abstract revised November 12, 1985, based on new evidence" bstract of paper presented by Coney at WSM meeting, Santa Barbara, California, 18–21 August 1985, which Taylor did not attend; after the meeting, Coney added Taylor as a co-author
* TAYLOR, D. W., 1986, Fossil molluscs from the Lake Hill archaeological site, Panamint Valley, southeastern California. Contributions of the Great Basin Foundation (San Diego), 2: 42–54.
* TAYLOR, D. W., 1987 eptember Freshwater molluscs from New Mexico and vicinity. New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources, Bulletin, 116: iv + 5–50.
* TAYLOR, D. W. & R. C. BRIGHT, 1987, Drainage history of the Bonneville Basin. Utah Geological Association, Publication, 16: 239–256 aper presented at symposium, "Cenozoic geology of western Utah", Lake City, Utah, 23–26 September 1987
* TAYLOR, D. W., 1988a anuary Phylum: Mollusca. Pp. 32–57, in: J. GRAY, ed., Evolution of the freshwater ecosystem: the fossil record. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 62(14): 1–214.
* TAYLOR, D. W. & J. GRAY, 1988 anuary Class: Mammalia. Pp. 165–175, in: J. GRAY, ed., Evolution of the freshwater ecosystem: the fossil record. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 62(1–4): 1–214.
* TAYLOR, D. W., 1988b anuary Aspects of freshwater mollusc ecological biogeography. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 62(1–4): 511–576.
* TAYLOR, D. W., 1988c December New species of Physa (Gastropoda: Hygrophila) from the western United States. ''Malacological Review'', 21(1–2): 43–79.
* BOUCOT, A. J., H. A. McCLUER, F. ALVAREZ, J. R. P. ROSS, D. W. TAYLOR, W. STRUVE, N. N. SAVAGE & S. TURNER, 1989 5 September New Devonian fossils from Saudi Arabia and their biogeographic affinities. Senckenbergiana Lethaea, 69(5–6): 535–597 aylor, "Nonmarine molluscs," pp. 557–559
* GRAY, J. & D. W. TAYLOR, 1992 ay Late Tertiary environmental change: pollen and mollusc evidence from the Pacific Northwest. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 24(5): 28 bstract of paper presented at the meeting of the Cordilleran Section, GSA, Eugene, Oregon, 11–13 May 1992
* TAYLOR, D. W., 1994 une December 1993" Moluscos dulceacuicolas de Costa Rica: introduccion y lista preliminar. Revista de Biología Tropical (San José, Costa Rica), 41(3A): 653–655 n Spanish; English abstract
* TAYLOR, D. W., 1997a January An old new species of Polymesoda (Bivalvia, Corbiculidae) from the Pacific coast of Mexico. ''The Festivus'', 29(1): 3–5.
* TAYLOR, D. W., 1997b August A new mussel, Disconaias conchos (Bivalvia: Unionidae) from Rio Conchos of the Rio Grande System, Mexico. Occasional Papers on Mollusks, 5(75): 419–425.
* TAYLOR, D. W., 2002a, New data on biogeography, classification and phylogeny of Physidae (Gastropoda: Hygrophila). Visnyk Zhytomyrskoho Pedahohichnoho Universytetu roceedings of the Ivan Franko Zhytomyr Pedagogical University(Zhytomyr), 10: 24–26 roceedings of malacological conference held in Zhytomyr, Ukraine, 13–15 May 2002
* TAYLOR, D. W., 2002b 1998–1999" Harold William Harry, 1921–1995. Malacological Review, 31/32: 159–163.
* TAYLOR, D. W., 2003 arch Introduction to Physidae (Gastropoda: Hygrophila); biogeography, classification, morphology. Revista de Biología Tropical, International Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation (San José, Costa Rica), 51 (Supplement 1): viii + 287 pp.
* TAYLOR, D. W., 2004a ugust Morphological revision of freshwater snails, Family Physidae/Revisión morfológica de caracoles dulciacuícolas, Familia Physidae. Comunicaciones de la Socieded Malacologica del Uruguay, 8(82–83): 279–282.
* TAYLOR, D. W., 2004b ctober Trans-Pacific relationships in Physidae (Gastropoda, Pulmonata). Pp. 155–156, in: O. YA. SEMENIKHINA, ed., Abstracts of the conference "Mollusks of the Northeastern Asia and Northern Pacific: Biodiversity, Ecology, Biogeography, and Fauna History," October 4–6, 2004, Vladivostok, Russia. Vladivostok, Dalnauka. 176 pp. bstract aylor did not attend this meeting (K. A. Lutaenko to A. R. Kabat, in litt., May 21, 2007)

References

Further reading

* Scarabino F. (2007). "Dwight W. Taylor (1932-2006): breve semblanza". ''Comunicaciones de la Sociedad Malacológica del Uruguay'' 9(90): 117–118
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