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John Otterbein Snyder (August 14, 1867 – August 19, 1943) was an American
ichthyologist Ichthyology is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish, including bony fish ( Osteichthyes), cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes), and jawless fish (Agnatha). According to FishBase, 33,400 species of fish had been described as of Octobe ...
and professor of
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at
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.


History

As a student he met
David Starr Jordan David Starr Jordan (January 19, 1851 – September 19, 1931) was the founding president of Stanford University, serving from 1891 to 1913. He was an ichthyologist during his research career. Prior to serving as president of Stanford Univer ...
who inspired him to enter zoology. He eventually became a zoology instructor at
Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...
and served there from 1899 until 1943. He went on several major collecting expeditions aboard the in the early 1900s and organized the U.S. National Museum's fish collection in 1925. The same year he also declined the directorship there so he could return to Stanford. He was a long-term member of the
California Academy of Sciences The California Academy of Sciences is a research institute and natural history museum in San Francisco, California, that is among the largest museums of natural history in the world, housing over 46 million specimens. The Academy began in 1853 ...
and worked for the California Bureau of Fisheries. He wrote many articles and papers as well as describing several new species of sharks.


San Francisco Bay

In 1905, Snyder, then Assistant Professor of Zoology at Stanford, published ''Notes on the fishes of the streams flowing into San Francisco Bay'' in ''Report of the Commissioner of Fisheries to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904''. This work is significant in its historical documentation of the native fishes of San Francisco Bay channels.


Legacy

Snyder is honored in the name of the
waspfish Tetraroginae is a subfamily of marine ray-finned fishes, commonly known as waspfishes or sailback scorpionfishes, belonging to the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes and their relatives. These fishes are native to the Indian Ocean and the W ...
genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...
'' Snyderina''.


See also

* Taxa named by John Otterbein Snyder


References


Further reading

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External links


Stanford Memorial Page
American ichthyologists 1867 births 1943 deaths Scientists from the San Francisco Bay Area Stanford University faculty People associated with the California Academy of Sciences 19th-century American zoologists 20th-century American zoologists {{US-zoologist-stub