Samuel Booker McDowell Jr.
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. He 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. The snakes, Morelia mcdowelli NSW Coastal Carpet Python; Hydrophis macdowelli Small-headed Sea Snake; Candoia mcdowelli Bevel-nosed Ground Boa; Tropidonophis mcdowelli New Guinea keelback & Typhlops mcdowelli New Guinea Blind Snake are named in his honour. Some taxa authored
Acrochordus arafurae
Emydinae
Pseudoxenodontinae
Salomonelaps

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1928 births
2014 deaths
American herpetologists
Place of birth missing
Place of death missing
Columbia University alumni
People associated with the American Museum of Natural History