Karl Patterson Schmidt
Appearance
Karl Patterson Schmidt (* 19 June 1890, Lake Forest, Illinois – † 26 September 1957, Chicago, Illinois), US herpetologist.
- Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Taxon names authored
(List may be incomplete)
Publications
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1919
[edit]- Schmidt, K.P. 1919. Descriptions of new amphibians and reptiles from Santo Domingo and Navassa. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 41: 519–525.
1928
[edit]- Schmidt, K.P. 1928. A New Crocodile from New Guinea. Publications of the Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological series 12(14): 177–181 + 1 plate. BHL Reference page.
- Schmidt, K.P. 1928. Reptiles collected in Salvador for the California Institute of Technology. Publications of the Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological series 12(16): 191–201. BHL Reference page.
1933
[edit]- Schmidt, K.P. 1933. A new snake (Rhynchocalamus arabicus) from Arabia. Zoological Series of Field Museum of Natural History 20: 9–10. BHL Reference page.
1939
[edit]- Schmidt, K.P. 1939. Reptiles and amphibians from Southwestern Asia. Publications of the Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological series 24: 49–92. BHL Reference page.
- Schmidt, K.P. 1939. A new lizard from Mexico with a note on the genus Norops. Zool. Ser. Field Mus. Nat. Hist. 24: 7–10.
1941
[edit]- Schmidt, K.P., Davis, D.D. 1941. Field Book of Snakes of the United States and Canada. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 365 pp.
1943
[edit]- Schmidt, K.P. & Walker, W.F.jr. 1943. Three new snakes from the Peruvian Andes. Zoological Series of Field Museum of Natural History 24(28): 325–329. BHL Reference page.
1945
[edit]- Schmidt, K.P. 1945. A new name for a Brazilian Mabuya. Copeia (1): 45.
Eponyms
[edit]- Aspidoscelis hyperythra schmidti Van Denburgh & Slevin, 1921
- Scincella schmidti Barbour, 1927
- Pseudoxenodon karlschmidti Pope, 1928
- Tribolonotus schmidti Burt, 1930
- Eleutherodactylus karlschmidti Grant, 1931
- Thrasops schmidti Loveridge, 1936
- Coniophanes schmidti Bailey, 1937
- Urosaurus ornatus schmidti (Mittleman, 1940)
- Batrachuperus karlschmidti Liu, 1950
- Varanus karlschmidti Mertens, 1951
- Emoia schmidti W. Brown, 1954
- Calamaria schmidti Marx & Inger, 1955
- Afrotyphlops schmidti (Laurent, 1956)
- Acanthodactylus schmidti Haas, 1957
- Hydrolaetare schmidti (Cochran & Goin, 1959)
- Lerista karlschmidti (Marx & Hosmer, 1959)
- Parahollardia schmidti Woods, 1959
- Thorius schmidti Gehlbach, 1959
- Liolaemus schmidti (Marx, 1960)
- Amphisbaena schmidti Gans, 1964
References
[edit]- Davis, D.D. 1959. Karl Patterson Schmidt, 1890-1957. Copeia 959(3): 189–192. JSTOR
- Emerson, A.E. 1958. K. P. Schmidt--Herpetologist, Ecologist, Zoogeographer. Science. New Series 127(3307): 1162–1163. JSTOR
- Goodnight, C.J., Penfound, W.T. & Hoff, C.C. 1958. Resolution of Respect: Karl Patterson Schmidt 1890-1957. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 39(1): 39–41. JSTOR