Fenner Albert Chace Jr. (October 5, 1908 – May 30, 2004) was an American

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Life

Fenner Albert Chace Jr. was born in

Fall River, Massachusetts Fall River is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. Fall River's population was 94,000 at the 2020 United States census, making it the List of municipalities in Massachusetts, tenth-largest city in the state, and the second- ...

. He attended

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, and received his doctorate in 1934, and became a

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at that university's

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. After the start of

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

, he worked as a civilian for the

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oceanographic group, and later commissioned as an officer. His unit was dismantled, and he was reassigned to the US Navy Hydrographic Office. He worked to produce cloth survival charts to be used by aviators lost at sea. After the war, he succeeded Waldo L. Schmitt at the

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. He worked at the National Museum until his

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in 1978, 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 The Decapoda or decapods, from Ancient Greek δεκάς (''dekás''), meaning "ten", and πούς (''poús''), meaning "foot", is a large order of crustaceans within the class Malacostraca, and includes crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, a ...

and

Stomatopoda Mantis shrimp are carnivorous marine crustaceans of the order Stomatopoda (). Stomatopods branched off from other members of the class Malacostraca around 400 million years ago, with more than 520 extant species of mantis shrimp known. All liv ...

, most of them

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Taxa

Taxa named by Fenner A. Chace include: *''

Atyopsis ''Atyopsis'' is a genus of freshwater shrimp from Southeast Asia. It was erected in 1983 by Fenner A. Chace, Jr. for two species formerly treated in the genus ''Atya''. It differs from ''Atya'' by various characters, including the form of the te ...

'' Chace, 1983 *''

Eunephrops cadenasi ''Eunephrops cadenasi'', sometimes called the sculptured lobster, is a species of lobster found in the Caribbean. Description ''Eunephrops cadenasi'' is a medium-sized lobster with a cylindrical body. Adult male individuals of ''Eunephrops caden ...

'' Chace, 1939 *'' Palaemonetes cummingi'' Chace, 1954 *'' Physetocaris'' Chace, 1940 *'' Physetocaris microphthalma'' Chace, 1940 *'' Potamonautes choloensis'' (Chace, 1953) *'' Potamonautes idjiwiensis'' (Chace, 1942) *'' Potamonautes montivagus'' (Chace, 1953) *'' Potamonautes mutandensis'' (Chace, 1942) * Procarididae Chace & Manning, 1972 * Procaridoidea Chace & Manning, 1972 *'' Procaris'' Chace & Manning, 1972 *'' Procaris ascensionis'' Chace & Manning, 1972 *'' Psalidopus barbouri'' Chace, 1939 *'' Tetrasquilla'' Manning & Chace, 1990 *'' Typhlatya monae'' Chace, 1954 *'' Typhlatya rogersi'' Chace & Manning, 1972 Chace is commemorated in a number of names of taxa: *'' Alpheus fenneri'' A. J. Bruce, 1994 *'' Archaeatya chacei'' Villalobos, 1960 *'' Atyoida chacei'' de Mazancourt, Marquet & Keith, 2024 *''

Chacella ''Chacella'' is a genus of shrimps belonging to the family Palaemonidae Palaemonidae is a family of shrimp in the order Decapoda. Many species are carnivores that eat small invertebrates, and can be found in any aquatic habitat except the dee ...

'' 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 ''Ischnochiton'' spp. (unknown species) from South Africa ''Ischnochiton'' is a genus of polyplacophoran mollusc.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Ischnochiton Gray, 1847. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://w ...

'' P. Kaas & R. A. Van Belle, 1990 *'' Michelopagurus chacei'' McLaughlin, 1997 *'' Pasiphaea chacei'' Yaldwyn, 1962 *'' Plesionika chacei'' Crosnier, 1986 *'' Pylocheles chacei'' Forest, 1987 *'' Rimicaris chacei'' Williams & Rona, 1986 *'' Scyllarus chacei'' Holthuis, 1960 *'' Vetericaris chaceorum'' Kensley & Williams, 1986 The shrimp genus '' Janicea'' (currently in the family

Barbouriidae Barbouriidae is a family of shrimp, comprising four genera: *''Barbouria ''Barbouria'' is a genus of shrimp in the family Barbouriidae. It is monotypic, being represented by the single species ''Barbouria cubensis''. ''Barbouria cubensis'' w ...

) is named after Chace's wife, Janice.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chace, Fenner A. Jr. American carcinologists 1908 births 2004 deaths Harvard University alumni People from Fall River, Massachusetts Scientists from Massachusetts 20th-century American zoologists