Sherman Chauncey Bishop (1887–1951) was a
herpetologist and
arachnologist from
New York
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. He studied at
Cornell University and, with Cyrus R. Crosby, gave the
spruce-fir moss spider
The spruce-fir moss spider (''Microhexura montivaga'') is an endangered species of spider found at high elevations in the southern Appalachian Mountains. First identified in 1923, it inhabits moss that grows on rocks underneath the forest canopy. ...
its scientific name.
His ''Handbook of Salamanders'' (1943) was the first serious and comprehensive treatment of North American
salamanders since
Cope (1889).
Bishop is commemorated in the
scientific names of two species of salamanders: ''
Ambystoma bishopi
The reticulated flatwoods salamander (''Ambystoma bishopi'') is a species of mole salamander, an amphibian in the family Ambystomatidae. The species is native to a small portion of the southeastern coastal plain of the United States in the wester ...
'' and ''
Cryptobranchus bishopi''.
[ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2013). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians''. Exeter, England: Pelagic Publishing Ltd. xiii + 262 pp. . ("Bishop", pp. 23-24).]
Publications
*Bishop, Sherman C. (1943). ''Handbook of Salamanders: The Salamanders of the United States, and of Lower California''. Ithaca and London: Comstock Publishing Associates, a division of Cornell University Press. 508 pp.
External links
Sherman C. Bishop papers D.339 at the University of Rochester
References
1887 births
1951 deaths
American arachnologists
American herpetologists
Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences alumni
20th-century American zoologists
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