Carl Wilhelm Erich Zimmer (

Sondershausen Sondershausen () is a town in Thuringia, central Germany, capital of the Kyffhäuserkreis district, situated about 50 km (30 mi) north of Erfurt. On 1 December 2007, the former municipality Schernberg was merged with Sondershausen. Until 1918 i ...

, 29 September 1873 – Hüll bei Wolnzach, 8 November 1950) was a German

zoologist Zoology ( , ) is the scientific study of animals. Its studies include the structure, embryology, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct, and how they interact with their ecosystems. Zoology is one ...

specialising in

crustacean Crustaceans (from Latin meaning: "those with shells" or "crusted ones") are invertebrate animals that constitute one group of arthropods that are traditionally a part of the subphylum Crustacea (), a large, diverse group of mainly aquatic arthrop ...

s, especially the

order Order, ORDER or Orders may refer to: * A socio-political or established or existing order, e.g. World order, Ancien Regime, Pax Britannica * Categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood ...

Cumacea Cumacea is an order (biology), order of small marine crustaceans of the superorder Peracarida, occasionally called hooded shrimp or comma shrimp. Their unique appearance and uniform body plan makes them easy to distinguish from other crustaceans. ...

. He studied zoology at the universities of

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and Breslau, receiving his doctorate in 1897. In 1912, he was appointed second director at the Zoological State Collection of Munich, whereas in 1917, he became the director. From 1924 to 1937, he was a full professor and director of the zoological museum in Berlin. The crustacean genus ''Zimmeriana'' (Hale, 1946; family Gynodiastylidae) commemorates his name, as do species with the epithet of ''zimmeri'', including three species of frogs ('' Arthroleptis zimmeri'', '' Oreophryne zimmeri'', and '' Pseudophilautus zimmeri)'' and a species of lizard ('' Sphenomorphus zimmeri)''. He is the

taxonomic authority In biology, taxonomy () is the scientific study of naming, defining ( circumscribing) and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics. Organisms are grouped into taxa (singular: taxon), and these groups are given ...

for the

krill Krill ''(Euphausiids)'' (: krill) are small and exclusively marine crustaceans of the order (biology), order Euphausiacea, found in all of the world's oceans. The name "krill" comes from the Norwegian language, Norwegian word ', meaning "small ...

species ''

Euphausia hanseni ''Euphausia'' is the largest genus of krill, and is placed in the family Euphausiidae. There are 31 species known in this genus, including Antarctic krill (''Euphausia superba'') and ice krill ('' Euphausia crystallorophias'') from the Southern ...

''.

Selected publications

*''Die Cumaceen der "Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition"'', 1908 – Cumacea from the German Deepsea-Expedition. (in German). *''Südwestafrikanische Schizopoden'', 1912 – Southwest African

Schizopoda Schizopoda is a former taxonomical classification of a division of the class Malacostraca Malacostraca is the second largest of the six classes of pancrustaceans behind insects, containing about 40,000 living species, divided among 16 order ...

. (in German). *''Untersuchungen an diastyliden (Ordnung Cumacea)'', 1930 – Research of

Diastylidae Diastylidae is one of the eight most commonly recognised families of crustaceans of the order Cumacea. They are marine creatures especially common around the 30th parallel north. Anatomy Diastylidae have a medium to large, free telson, that has ...

(order Cumacea). (in German). *"

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Crustacea of the order Cumacea"; translated into English, 1937. *''Cumacea'', 1941. *"Cumaceans of the American Atlantic boreal coast region (Crustacea,

Peracarida The superorder Peracarida is a large group of malacostracan crustaceans, having members in marine, freshwater, and terrestrial habitats. They are chiefly defined by the presence of a brood pouch, or ''marsupium'', formed from thin flattened pla ...

)"; translated into English, 1979.WorldCat Identities
(publications).

References

20th-century German zoologists German carcinologists 1873 births 1950 deaths People from Sondershausen Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin University of Breslau alumni {{Germany-zoologist-stub