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John Otterbein Snyder (August 14, 1867 – August 19, 1943) was an American
ichthyologist Ichthyology is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish, including bony fish (Osteichthyes), cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes), and jawless fish (Agnatha). According to FishBase, 35,800 species of fish had been described as of March 2 ...
and professor of
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at
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.


History

As a student he met
David Starr Jordan David Starr Jordan (January 19, 1851 – September 19, 1931) was the founding president of Stanford University, serving from 1891 to 1913. He was an ichthyologist during his research career. Prior to serving as president of Stanford Universi ...
who inspired him to enter zoology. He eventually became a zoology instructor at
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and served there from 1899 until 1943. He went on several major collecting expeditions aboard the in the early 1900s and organized the U.S. National Museum's fish collection in 1925. The same year he also declined the directorship there so he could return to Stanford. He was a long-term member of the
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and worked for the California Bureau of Fisheries. He wrote many articles and papers as well as describing several new species of sharks.


San Francisco Bay

In 1905, Snyder, then assistant professor of zoology at Stanford, published ''Notes on the fishes of the streams flowing into San Francisco Bay'' in ''Report of the Commissioner of Fisheries to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904''. This work is significant in its historical documentation of the native fishes of San Francisco Bay channels.


Legacy

Snyder is honored in the name of the waspfish
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'' Snyderina''.


See also

* Taxa named by John Otterbein Snyder


References


Further reading

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External links


Stanford Memorial Page
American ichthyologists 1867 births 1943 deaths Scientists from the San Francisco Bay Area Stanford University faculty People associated with the California Academy of Sciences 19th-century American zoologists 20th-century American zoologists {{US-zoologist-stub