For the politician, planter and slave-owner in Jamaica, see William Stimpson (politician).
William Stimpson
Born
(1832-02-14)February 14, 1832
Boston, Massachusetts, US
Died
May 26, 1872(1872-05-26) (aged 40)
Ilchester, Maryland, US
Scientific career
Fields
Marine biology, malacology
Academic advisors
Louis Agassiz
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William Stimpson (February 14, 1832 – May 26, 1872) was an American scientist.[1] He was interested particularly in marine biology. Stimpson became an important early contributor to the work of the Smithsonian Institution and later, director of the Chicago Academy of Sciences.
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WilliamStimpson (February 14, 1832 – May 26, 1872) was an American scientist. He was interested particularly in marine biology. Stimpson became an important...
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genus resemble a pickaxe. The genus Bipalium was initially defined by Stimpson to include land planarians with the head broadened, forming a head plate...
rapidly growing collection, meeting from 1857 to 1866. It was founded by WilliamStimpson. Many of the members had no formal education, but came by their expertise...
blooms off the coast of California. DecaNet (2023). "Emerita analoga (Stimpson, 1857)". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 1 June 2023...
The WilliamStimpson House is a historic house at 22 Prospect Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts. The 2+1⁄2-story timber-frame house was built sometime...
species of Japanese atyid shrimps (Decapoda: Caridea) described by WilliamStimpson (1860)" (PDF). Journal of Crustacean Biology. 26 (3): 392–419. doi:10...
Haefner (1977). "Aspects of the biology of the Jonah crab, Cancer borealis Stimpson, 1859 in the mid-Atlantic Bight". Journal of Natural History. 11 (3): 303–320...
Bipalium fuscatum is a species of land planarian first described by WilliamStimpson in 1857. It has been found in Japan, Indonesia, and in parts of continental...
genus Doto. The first available name for that genus was published by WilliamStimpson in 1858, who called it Dotilla. Ongoing revisions are likely to split...
"Callinectes Stimpson, 1860". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved June 14, 2011. Peter Davie; Michael Türkay (2011). "Callinectes Stimpson, 1860"...
William S. "Sandy" Stimpson (born April 4, 1952) is an American businessman and politician who serves as the current mayor of Mobile, Alabama. He was...
almost completely cover the crab. Peter Davie (2013). "Pseudodromia latens Stimpson, 1858". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved August 5, 2013...
the California coast. The species was first described to science by WilliamStimpson in 1857. The type specimen was collected on the coast of California...
shrimp catch. Fransen, C.; De Grave, S. (2015). "Crangon franciscorum Stimpson, 1856". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved March 12, 2015...
134–149. ISBN 978-0-521-76053-9. Alan R. Longhurst, Carl J. Lorenzen & William H. Thomas (1967). "The role of pelagic crabs in the grazing of phytoplankton...
joyneri and Metapenaeopsis dalei). The species was first described by WilliamStimpson in 1860, as a species in the genus Penaeus, with a type locality of...
The Megatherium Club, named for the extinct animal and founded by WilliamStimpson, was a group of Washington, D.C.-based scientists who were attracted...
occidentalis was first described by the American marine biologist WilliamStimpson in 1860 as Ocypoda occidentalis. The type specimens were originally...
"Apostichopus californicus (Stimpson, 1857)". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved September 29, 2017. Benton, William, et al. Britannica Macropaedia...
crab (Echidnocerus foraminatus) is a king crab that lives from Prince William Sound, Alaska to San Diego, California, at depths of 0–547 metres (0–1...
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