Jr.William Ellsworth Fisher Jr.

collected 1877–2006

2,598 specimens, collected between 1877 and 2006 on 290 collecting days, now held in 4 departments. Identified 8,054 specimens for others.

On the labels as Fisher, J.R., Fisher, J., R Fisher, Jason Fisher, Fisher, J Fisher, Japanese Fisher, Jack Fisher and 1 more.

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Specimens: 2,598
Type specimens: 27
Years in the field: 130
Islands: 27
Species: 475
Identifications: 8,054
In the Library: 2
Named after: 11

Where Fisher collected

Specimens by decade

1870s2000s

Earliest: Cypraea isabella mexicana, 1877 (Mexico; Gulf of California; Tres Morias). Latest: Medinilla magnifica, 2006.

In the Library

Publications in the Library whose author line carries this name.

2023
Skinks of Oceania, New Guinea, and Eastern Wallacea: an underexplored biodiversity hotspot
Slavenko, A., A. Allison, C. Austin, A. Bauer, R. Brown, R. Fisher, I. Ineich, B. Iova, B. Karin, F. Kraus, M. O'Shea, S. Mecke, S. Meiri, C. Morrison, P. Oliver, J. Richmond, G. Shea, O. Tallowin, and D. Chapple · Pacific Conservation Biology
Museum research publication
DOI
2010
New islet records of marine benthic algae from offshore islets associated with O‘ahu, Maui, Moloka‘i and Lāna‘i in the main Hawaiian Islands
Fisher, J., Giuseffi, L., Tsuda, R.T., Abbott, I.A. & Coles, S.L. · In: Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldrege, L.G. (eds.), Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2008. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 107: 69-80.
Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey
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Named for Fisher

Taxa in the collection whose epithet is formed from the name Fisher. The naming author’s intent is not recorded, so where several collectors share a surname they are listed under the best-known one.

From the field

As a determiner

8,054 specimens carry this name as the person who identified them. Most often: