Samuel Booker McDowell Jr. (1928–2014) was an American herpetologist who worked on the comparative anatomy of turtles and snakes, and studied snakes of Oceania.
McDowell earned a B.Sc. (1947) and a Ph.D. (1957) from Columbia University, and worked at the American Museum of Natural History. His zoological author abbreviation is McDowell. Several snakes are named in his honor. www.reptile-database.org.
In addition to his scientific work, McDowell was a friend of New Yorker writer A.J. Liebling, and an occasional contributor to the magazine in the early 1960s.
Some taxa authored Acrochordus arafurae Emydinae Pseudoxenodontinae Salomonelaps
Eponyms The following four snakes are named in honor of McDowell.Beolens, B.; Watkins, M.; Grayson, M. (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (McDowell, p. 173). Hydrophis macdowelli Tropidonophis mcdowelli Gerrhopilus mcdowelli Candoia paulsoni mcdowelli
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a different genus.
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