Walter Kenrick Fisher

Walter Kenrick Fisher (1878–1953), U.S. zoologist.

Taxon names authored

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• 159 taxon names authored by Walter Kenrick Fisher

Eponyms

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• 2 eponyms of Walter Kenrick Fisher

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1905

• Fisher, W.K. 1905. New starfishes from deep water off California and Alaska. Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Fisheries. 24: 293–320. BHL Reference page. 

1906

• Fisher, W.K. 1906. The Starfishes of the Hawaiian Islands. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission. 23(3): 987–1130. BHL Reference page. 
• Fisher, W.K. 1906. New starfishes from the Pacific Coast of North America. Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 8: 111–139. BHL Reference page. 
• Fisher, W.K. 1906. Two new starfishes from Monterey Bay, California. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 30(10): 299–302. BHL Reference page. 

1907

• Fisher, W.K. 1907. Note on Eremicaster, a genus of starfishes. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 32: 12–14. BHL Reference page. 

1908

• Fisher, W.K., 1908. Necessary changes in the nomenclature of starfishes. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 52: 87–93. BHL Reference page. 
• Fisher, W.K. 1908. Some necessary changes in the generic names of starfishes. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 33: 356–359. BHL Reference page. 

1910

• Fisher, W.K. 1910. New genera of starfishes. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany, and Geology serie 8. 5(24): 171–173. BHL Reference page. 

1911

• Fisher, W.K. 1911. Asteroidea of the North Pacific and adjacent waters. Part 1. Phanerozonia and Spinulosida. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 76(1): xiii+420 pp.; 122 pls. BHL Reference page. 
• Fisher, W.K. 1911. Hyalinothrix, a new genus of starfishes from the Hawaiian Islands. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 39(1807): 659–664. BHL Reference page. 

1913

• Fisher, W.K. 1913. Four new genera and fifty-eight new species of starfishes from the Philippine Islands, Celebes, and the Moluccas. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 43(1944): 599–648. BHL Reference page. 

1916

• Fisher, W.K. 1916. New east Indian starfishes. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 29: 27-36. BHL Reference page. 

1917

• Fisher, W.K. 1917. New genera and species of Brisingidae. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany, and Geology. 20(8): 418-431. BHL Reference page. 
• Fisher, W.K. 1917. Trophodiscus, a new sea star from Kamchatka. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 52(2180): 367–371. BHL Reference page. 
• Fisher, W.K. 1917. A new Genus and Gubgenus of East-Indian Sea-Stars. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany, and Geology. Series 8. 20(116): 172–173. BHL Reference page. 

1918

• Fisher, W.K. 1918. Notes on Asteroidea. II. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany, and Geology serie 9. 2(7): 103–111. BHL Reference page. 

1919

• Fisher, W.K. 1919. Contributions to the biology of the Philippine Archipelago and adjacent regions, vol. 3 . Starfishes of the Philippine seas and adjacent waters. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 100(3): 1-547. 156 pls. hdl: 10088/21263 BHL Reference page. 

1923

• Fisher, W.K. 1923. XXVIII.—A preliminary synopsis of the Asteriidæ, a family of sea-stars. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Series 9 12(68): 247-258. DOI: 10.1080/00222932308632942 Reference page. 
• Fisher, W.K. 1923. LXII.—A preliminary synopsis of the Asteriidæ, a family of sea-stars (concluded). Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Series 9 12(71): 595-607. DOI: 10.1080/00222932308632982 Reference page. 

1926

• Fisher, W.K. 1926. XXI.—Notes on the Asteroidea.—IV. Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Series 9 18(104): 196-200. DOI: 10.1080/00222932608633495 Reference page. 

1930

• Fisher, W.K. 1930. Asteroidea of the North Pacific and adjacent waters. Part 3: Forcipulata (Concluded). Bulletin of the United States National Museum 76(3): 1-356. DOI: 10.5479/si.03629236.76.3 BHL Reference page. 

1940

• Fisher, W.K. 1940. Asteroidea. Discovery Reports. 20: 69–306. BHL Reference page.