Arthur Loveridge (28 May 1891 – 16 February 1980) was a British biologist and herpetologist who wrote about animals in East Africa, particularly Tanzania, and New Guinea. He gave scientific names to several gecko species in the region.
Arthur Loveridge was born in Penarth, and was interested in natural history from childhood. He gained experience with the National Museum of Wales and Manchester Museum before becoming the curator of the Nairobi Museum (now the National Museum of Kenya) in 1914. During WW1, he joined the East African Mounted Rifles, later returning to the museum to build up the collections. He then became an assistant game warden in Tanganyika.
In 1924, he joined the Museum of Comparative Zoology in the grounds of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was the curator of herpetology. He returned to East Africa on several field trips and wrote many scientific papers before retiring from Harvard in 1957.
He married Mary Victoria Sloan in 1921, who died in 1972. They had one son.
On retirement, they moved to Saint Helena in the South Atlantic, from where he continued his interest in natural history, publishing several articles on the island's wildlife in the St Helena Wirebird and St Helena News Review in the 1960s & 1970s. He died in 1980 and was buried in St Helena next to his wife.
ArthurLoveridge (28 May 1891 – 16 February 1980) was a British biologist and herpetologist who wrote about animals in East Africa, particularly Tanzania...
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Maskarenen, Seychellen und Komoren. Stuttgart: Ulmer. ISBN 3-8001-7323-9. Loveridge A (1941). "New Geckos (Phelsuma and Lygodactylus), Snake (Leptotyphlops)...
subspecific name, loveridgei, is in honor of British herpetologist ArthurLoveridge. Baha El Din, S.; Busais, S.M.S.; Geniez, P.; Howell, K.; Ngalason...
Retrieved 20 November 2021. Frost, Darrel R. (2018). "Boulengerula taitana Loveridge, 1935". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6...
pincers while searching for bird bones. They were given to zoologist ArthurLoveridge, who confirmed they belonged to a huge earwig. The remains were forwarded...
gigantea show relatively little genetic differentiation from each other. Loveridge A, Williams EE (1957). "Revision of the African tortoises and turtles...
as a subspecies, Sphenomorphus leae brooksi, by British herpetologist Loveridge in 1933. It was named after American ornithologist Winthrop Sprague Brooks...
American Museum of Natural History (289): 1–130. (Cynisca degrysi, p. 28). Loveridge A (1941). "Revision of the African Lizards [sic] of the Family Amphisbaenidae"...
mitochondrial DNA sequences". Molecular Phylogenics and Evolution 19 (1): 94-104. Loveridge A (1930). "Preliminary Description of a new Tree Viper of the Genus Atheris...
Publishing. xxx + 1,033 pp. ISBN 978-0643100350. (Nephrurus wheeleri, p. 269). Loveridge A (1932). "New lizards of the genera Nephrurus and Amphibolurus from Western...
pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Bothriechis marchi, p. 168). Barbour T, Loveridge A (1929). "On some Hondurian and Guatemalan snakes with the description...
12 November 2021. Frost, Darrel R. (2018). "Sclerophrys kisoloensis (Loveridge, 1932)". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version...
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