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Raymond B. Manning

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Raymond Brendan Manning (October 11, 1934 – January 18, 2000) was an American carcinologist, specialising in alpha taxonomy and mantis shrimp. [1] [2] Contents 1 Biography 2 Scientific career 3 Taxa 4 References Biography Raymond Manning was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1934, but moved almost immediately with his mother to Haiti. They lived in Bethesda, Maryland for the duration of the Second World War, but then returned to Haiti, to live in a house in Port-au-Prince owned by Raymond's adoptive father. Raymond was sent to a boarding school in Tampa, Florida, and studied at the University of Florida, gaining his B.S. (1956), M.S. (1959) and Ph.D. (1963) degrees from the University of Miami. While at university, Manning met and married Lilly King, who would be the illustrator for his scientific papers throughout his life. On completing his doctorate, Manning was immediately appointed an Associate Curator at the Smithsonian Institution. [1] Scientif...

Fenner A. Chace Jr.

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Fenner Albert Chace Jr. (October 5, 1908 – May 30, 2004) was an American carcinologist. He was born in Fall River, Massachusetts, and studied at Harvard University, before becoming a curator at that university's Museum of Comparative Zoology. [1] In his own words, he "served as a civilian oceanographer and commissioned officer (first lieutenant to major) in the Army Air Corps (subsequently transferred to the Oceanographic Unit of the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office in Suitland, Md" during the Second World War, and afterwards, he succeeded Waldo L. Schmitt at the United States National Museum. [2] 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. [2] Taxa Taxa named by Fenner A. Chace include: Atyopsis Chace, 1983 Eunephrops cadenasi Chace, 193...

Jacques Forest

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Jacques Forest Born ( 1920-06-14 ) June 14, 1920 Créteil, Val-de-Marne Died February 16, 2012 (2012-02-16) (aged 91) Nationality French Alma mater University of Lille Scientific career Fields Carcinology Institutions Muséum national d'histoire naturelle Jacques Forest (June 14, 1920 – February 16, 2012) was a French carcinologist. [1] Biography The hermit crab Ciliopagurus strigatus – the genus Ciliopagurus was erected by Jacques Forest in 1995. The description of Neoglyphea inopinata was a highlight of Jacques Forest's career. Born in Créteil on June 14, 1920, Jacques Forest grew up in Maubeuge. [2] He served in the army for a year during the Second World War, and went on to study at the University of Lille after demobilisation. [2] After graduating, he worked for several years for the Office Scientifique et Technique des Pêches Maritimes ("scientific and technical office for marine fisheries"; now part o...

Seta

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For other uses, see Seta (disambiguation). Look up seta in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In biology, setae / ˈ s iː t iː / (singular seta / ˈ s iː t ə / ; from the Latin word for "bristle") are any of a number of different bristle- or hair-like structures on living organisms. Animal setae Invertebrates Setae on the foreleg of a mayfly Annelid setae are stiff bristles present on the body. They help, for example, earthworms to attach to the surface and prevent backsliding during peristaltic motion. These hairs make it difficult to pull a worm straight from the ground. Setae in oligochaetes (a group including earthworms) are largely composed of chitin. [1] They are classified according to the limb to which they are attached; for instance, notosetae are attached to notopodia; neurosetae to neuropodia. [2] Crustaceans have mechano- and chemosensory setae. [3] Setae are especially present on the mouthparts of crustaceans [3] and can also be found o...

Glypheoidea

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Glypheoidea Temporal range: Permo-Triassic–Recent PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N Neoglyphea inopinata Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Crustacea Class: Malacostraca Order: Decapoda Infraorder: Glypheidea Superfamily: Glypheoidea Winkler, 1883 The Glypheoidea (containing the glypheoid lobsters), is a group of lobster-like decapod crustaceans which forms an important part of fossil faunas, such as the Solnhofen limestone. These fossils included taxa such as Glyphea (from which the group takes its name), and Mecochirus , mostly with elongated (often semichelate) chelipeds. This group of decapods is a good example of a living fossil, or a lazarus taxon, since until their discovery in the 1970s, the group was considered to have become extinct in the Eocene. The superfamily Glypheoidea comprises five families. The two extant species, Neoglyphea inopinata and Laur...

Copepod

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Copepod Temporal range: Early Cretaceous – recent PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Crustacea Superclass: Multicrustacea Class: Hexanauplia Subclass: Copepoda H. Milne-Edwards, 1840 Orders Calanoida Cyclopoida Gelyelloida Harpacticoida Misophrioida Monstrilloida Mormonilloida Platycopioida Poecilostomatoida Siphonostomatoida Copepods ( / ˈ k oʊ p ɪ p ɒ d / ; meaning "oar-feet") are a group of small crustaceans found in nearly every freshwater and saltwater habitat. Some species are planktonic (drifting in sea waters), some are benthic (living on the ocean floor), and some continental species may live in limnoterrestrial habitats and other wet terrestrial places, such as swamps, under leaf fall in wet forests, bogs, springs, ephemeral ponds, and puddles, damp moss, or water-filled recesses (phytotelmata) of plants s...