Fenner Albert Chace Jr. (October 5, 1908 – May 30, 2004) was an American carcinologist.

Life

Fenner Albert Chace Jr. was born in

Fall River, Massachusetts Fall River is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. The City of Fall River's population was 94,000 at the 2020 United States Census, making it the tenth-largest city in the state. Located along the eastern shore of Mount H ...

. He attended

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

, and received his doctorate in 1934, and became a

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at that university's

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. After the start of

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

, he worked as a civilian for the

Army Air Force The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF or AAF) was the major land-based aerial warfare service component of the United States Army and ''de facto'' aerial warfare service branch of the United States during and immediately after World War II ...

oceanographic group, and later commissioned as an officer. His unit was dismantled, and he was reassigned to the US Navy Hydrographic Office. He worked to produce cloth survival charts to be used by aviators lost at sea. After the war, he succeeded Waldo L. Schmitt at the

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. He worked at the National Museum until his

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in 1978, and then he continued as '' Zoologist Emeritus''. He was "one of the most influential carcinologists of the 20th century", and named 200 taxa in the Decapoda and Stomatopoda, most of them shrimp.

Taxa

Taxa named by Fenner A. Chace include: *''

Atyopsis ''Atyopsis'' is a genus of freshwater shrimp from Southeast Asia. It was erected in 1983 by Fenner A. Chace, Jr. for two species formerly treated in the genus ''Atya''. It differs from ''Atya'' by various characters, including the form of the te ...

'' Chace, 1983 *''

Eunephrops cadenasi ''Eunephrops cadenasi'', sometimes called the sculptured lobster, is a species of lobster found in the Caribbean. Description ''Eunephrops cadenasi'' is a medium-sized lobster with a cylindrical body. Adult male individuals of ''Eunephrops caden ...

'' Chace, 1939 *'' Palaemonetes cummingi'' Chace, 1954 *''

Physetocaris ''Physetocaris'' is a monotypic genus of caridean shrimp, containing a single species, ''Physetocaris microphthalma''. Systematics ''Physetocaris microphthalma'' is placed in its own family (Physetocarididae) and superfamily (Physetocaridoidea) ...

'' Chace, 1940 *'' Physetocaris microphthalma'' Chace, 1940 *'' Potamonautes choloensis'' (Chace, 1953) *'' Potamonautes idjiwiensis'' (Chace, 1942) *''

Potamonautes montivagus ''Potamonautes montivagus'' is a species of freshwater crustacean in the family Potamonautidae. It is native to southeastern Africa. Its natural habitat is river A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing to ...

'' (Chace, 1953) *'' Potamonautes mutandensis'' (Chace, 1942) * Procarididae Chace & Manning, 1972 *

Procaridoidea Procarididea is an infraorder of Decapoda, decapods, comprising only eleven species. Six of these are in the genera ''Procaris'' and ''Vetericaris'', which together make up the family (biology), family Procarididae. The remaining five species are ...

Chace & Manning, 1972 *''

Procaris ''Procaris'' is a genus of shrimp Shrimp are crustaceans (a form of shellfish) with elongated bodies and a primarily swimming mode of locomotion – most commonly Caridea and Dendrobranchiata of the decapod order, although some crust ...

'' Chace & Manning, 1972 *'' Procaris ascensionis'' Chace & Manning, 1972 *'' Psalidopus barbouri'' Chace, 1939 *'' Tetrasquilla'' Manning & Chace, 1990 *'' Typhlatya monae'' Chace, 1954 *'' Typhlatya rogersi'' Chace & Manning, 1972 Chace is commemorated in a number of names of taxa: *'' Alpheus fenneri'' A. J. Bruce, 1994 *'' Archaeatya chacei'' Villalobos, 1960 *''

Chacella ''Chacella'' is a genus of shrimps belonging to the family Palaemonidae Palaemonidae is a family of shrimp in the order Decapoda. Many species are carnivores that eat small invertebrates, and can be found in any aquatic habitat except the deep ...

'' A. J. Bruce, 1986 *''

Chaceon fenneri ''Chaceon fenneri'', commonly known as the golden crab or golden deepsea crab, is one of several species of crab harvested for food by humans. It was formerly called ''Geryon fenneri''. Like the blue crab, its common name comes from the color o ...

'' (Manning & Holthuis, 1984) *'' Chorocaris chacei'' (Williams & Rona, 1986) *'' Crassispira chacei'' Hertlein & Strong, 1951 *'' Dicranodromia chacei'' Guinot, 1995 *'' Fennera chacei'' Holthuis, 1951 *'' Fenneralpheus chacei'' Felder & Manning, 1986 *'' Fenneropenaeus'' Perez Farfante, 1969 *'' Hymenopenaeus chacei'' Crosnier & Forest, 1969 *'' Ifanella chacei'' Vervoort, 1964 *''

Ischnochiton chaceorum ''Ischnochiton'' spp. (unknown species) from South Africa ''Ischnochiton'' is a genus of polyplacophoran mollusc. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Ischnochiton Gray, 1847. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http:/ ...

'' P. Kaas & R. A. Van Belle, 1990 *'' Michelopagurus chacei'' McLaughlin, 1997 *'' Pasiphaea chacei'' Yaldwyn, 1962 *'' Plesionika chacei'' Crosnier, 1986 *'' Pylocheles chacei'' Forest, 1987 *'' Scyllarus chacei'' Holthuis, 1960 *'' Vetericaris chaceorum'' Kensley & Williams, 1986 The shrimp genus '' Janicea'' (currently in the family

Barbouriidae Barbouriidae is a family of shrimp Shrimp are crustaceans (a form of shellfish) with elongated bodies and a primarily swimming mode of locomotion – most commonly Caridea and Dendrobranchiata of the decapod order, although some crus ...

) is named after Chace's wife, Janice.

References

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