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. He attended Harvard University, and received his doctorate in 1934, and became a curator at that university's Museum of Comparative Zoology.[1]: 102–103 [2] After the start of World War II, he worked as a civilian for the Army Air Force oceanographic group, and later commissioned as an officer. His unit was dismantled,[1]: 104–105  and he was reassigned to the US Navy Hydrographic Office.[1]: 101  He worked to produce cloth survival charts to be used by aviators lost at sea.[1]: 105  After the war, he succeeded Waldo L. Schmitt at the United States National Museum.[3] He worked at the National Museum until his retirement in 1978,[1]: 255  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.[3]

Taxa

Taxa named by Fenner A. Chace include:

Chace is commemorated in a number of names of taxa:[4]

  • Alpheus fenneri A. J. Bruce, 1994
  • Archaeatya chacei Villalobos, 1960
  • Chacella A. J. Bruce, 1986
  • Chaceon fenneri (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 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)[5] is named after Chace's wife, Janice.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Musemeche, Catherine (2022). Lethal Tides. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-299169-0.
  2. ↑ "Gallery of Carcinologists: Selected Biographical Sketches". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved February 9, 2010.
  3. 1 2 Rafael Lemaitre (2005). "Remarks on the life and works of Fenner A. Chace, Jr. (1908–2004), with a list of his taxa and complete bibliography" (PDF). Crustaceana. 78 (5): 621–639. doi:10.1163/156854005774318141.
  4. ↑ Hans G. Hansson. "Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names". Göteborgs Universitet. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved February 9, 2010.
  5. ↑ Sammy De Grave & Charles Fransen (2010). "Barbouriidae". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved November 21, 2011.
  6. ↑ Raymond B. Manning & C. W. Hart, Jr. (1984). "The status of the hippolytid shrimp genera Barbouria and Ligur (Crustacea: Decapoda): a reevaluation". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 97 (3): 655–665.
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