Austin B. Williams
Austin Beatty Williams (October 17, 1919 – October 27, 1999) was an American carcinologist, "the acknowledged expert on and leader in studies of the systematics of eastern American decapod crustaceans".[1]
Biography[]
Austin B. Williams was born on October 17, 1919, in Plattsburg, Missouri, the eldest of three children to Oliver Perry Williams and Lucy Sell.[1] He was educated at McPherson College and the University of Kansas, gaining his Ph.D. in 1951.[1] He then worked at the University of North Carolina Institute of Fisheries Research, the University of Illinois, before gaining a position in the systematics laboratory of the National Marine Fisheries Service, based at the Smithsonian Institution.[1] He was married and had one son and two grandchildren. He died of cancer at Falls Church, Virginia, on October 27, 1999.[1]
Work[]
Williams' first scientific paper, published in 1952, described six new species of freshwater crayfish from the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma;[2] he continued to publish until his death in 1999, accruing 118 publications in that time.[1] His most important works[1] include monographs on the marine decapod crustaceans of the Carolinas,[3] on the decapods of the Atlantic coast of the United States,[4] and on the lobsters of the world's oceans.[5][6] He won several awards, including the Crustacean Society's Excellence in Research Award[7] and the American Fisheries Society's Oscar Elton Sette Award.[1]
Taxa[]
Austin B. Williams described or co-described 101 new taxa of decapod crustaceans, from the rank of subspecies to superfamily (obelisks mark fossil taxa):[1]
- Williams & Chace, 1982
- Williams & Chace, 1982
- Williams, 1988
- Williams, 1988
- Williams, 1988
- Leptalpheus Williams, 1965
- Williams, 1965
- Williams, 1981
- Williams, 1955
- Williams & Dobbs, 1995
- Williams & Dobbs, 1995
- Williams & Rona, 1986
- Williams & Rona, 1986
- Williams & Rona, 1986
- Homarinus Kornfield, Williams & Steneck, 1995
- Williams, 1952
- Williams, 1952
- Williams, 1952
- Williams, 1952
- Williams, 1952
- Williams, 1952
- † Kensley & Williams, 1990
- Williams, 1974
- Williams, 1974
- Williams, 1993
- Williams, 1993
- Williams & Ngoc-Ho, 1990
- Williams, 1986
- Williams, 1993
- Williams, 1993
- Williams, 1997
- Williams, 1993
- Williams, 1986
- Williams, 1993
- Williams, 1993
- Williams, 1986
- Williams & Scott, 1989
- Williams, 2000
- Williams, 1986
- Williams, 1993
- Williams, 1986
- Williams, 1993
- Williams, 1986
- Williams, 1986
- Williams, 1986
- Williams, 1986
- Williams, 1993
- Williams, 1993
- Williams, 1986
- Williams, 1993
- Williams, 1993
- Williams, 1986
- Williams, 1986
- Williams & Heard, 1991
- Williams, 1987
- Williams, 1986
- Williams, 1986
- Williams & Hernández-Aguilera, 1998
- Williams, 1997
- Williams, 1986
- Williams, 1998
- Pequegnat & Williams, 1995
- Williams & Baba, 1990
- Williams & Van Dover, 1983
- Williams & Baba, 1990
- Williams & Baba, 1990
- Shinkaia Baba & Williams, 1998
- Shinkaia crosnieri Baba & Williams, 1998
- Baba & Williams, 1998
- Brachyura
- Allactaea Williams, 1974
- Williams, 1974
- Williams & Moffit, 1991
- Williams & Moffit, 1991
- Bythograeoidea Williams, 1980
- Bythograeidae Williams, 1980
- Williams, 1980
- Williams, 1988
- Williams, 1980
- Callinectes similis Williams, 1966
- Cyclozodion Williams & Child, 1989
- Williams & Child, 1989
- Rondríguez & Williams, 1995
- Eplumula Williams, 1982
- † Bishop & Williams, 2000
- † Bishop & Williams, 2000
- Williams, 1974
- Williams, 1982
- Williams, 1982
- Menippe adina Williams & Felder, 1986
- Williams, 1979
- Williams, 1979
- Williams, 1979
- † Bishop & Williams, 1991
- Williams, 1976
- Williams, 1984
- Williams & Boschi, 1990
- Williams, 1984
- Bishop & Williams, 2000
- Bishop & Williams, 2000
- Williams & Eldgredge, 1994
- Williams, Shaw & Hopkins, 1977
One genus and several species were named by other scientists in honor of Williams. They include:[1][8]
- Forest, 1974 – a species of deep-water shrimp
- Hart & Manning, 1986 – a species of shrimp from the Caribbean Sea
- Hessler & Martin, 1989 – a crab from hydrothermal vents; both the genus and the specific epithet commemorate Williams
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j Rafael Lemaitre & Bruce B. Collette (2000). "Austin Beatty Williams (17 October 1919–27 October 1999). Biographical summary". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 113 (1): 1–12. hdl:10088/7340.
- ^ Austin B. Williams (1952). "Six new crayfishes of the genus Orconectes (Decapoda: Astacidae) from Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma". Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. 55 (3): 330–351. doi:10.2307/3626240. JSTOR 3626240.
- ^ Austin B. Williams (1965). "Marine decapod crustaceans of the Carolinas". Fishery Bulletin. 65 (1): 1–298.
- ^ Austin B. Williams (1984). Shrimps, lobsters, and crabs, of the Atlantic coast of the eastern United States, Maine to Florida. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. pp. 1–550.
- ^ Austin B. Williams (1987). "Lobsters—identification, world distribution, and U.S. trade". . 48 (2): 1–36.
- ^ Austin B. Williams & Ian Dore (1988). Lobsters of the World. Huntington, NY: . ISBN 978-0-943738-23-9.
- ^ Rafael Lemaitre (1998). "Austin Beatty Williams recipient of Award for Excellence in Research". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 18 (3): 619–620. doi:10.1163/193724098x00449. hdl:10088/7320. JSTOR 1549426.
- ^ Hans G. Hansson. "Dr. Austin Beatty Williams". Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names. Göteborgs universitet. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
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