Fenner Albert Chace Jr. (October 5, 1908 – May 30, 2004) was an American carcinologist.
Life Fenner Albert Chace Jr. was born in Fall River, Massachusetts. He attended Harvard University, and received his doctorate in 1934, and became a curator at that university's Museum of Comparative Zoology. After the start of World War II, he worked as a civilian for the Army Air Force 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 United States National Museum. He worked at the National Museum until his retirement 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 and Stomatopoda, most of them shrimp.
Taxa Taxa named by Fenner A. Chace include:
Atyopsis Chace, 1983 Eunephrops cadenasi 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 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 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) is named after Chace's wife, Janice.
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