D.A. Saunders

American phycologist and botanist · 1870–1940

28 specimens, collected between 1894 and 1915 on 8 collecting days. Identified 13 specimens for others.

Specimens: 28
Type specimens: 0
Years in the field: 22
Islands: 1
Species: 20
Identifications: 13
In the Library: 0
Named after: 2

Specimens by decade

1890s1910s

Earliest: Prionitis sternbergii, 1894 (Pacific Grove). Latest: Balansia cyperi, 1915.

Named for Saunders

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

Neseis saundersiana Lygaeidae29
Diderma saundersii Didymiaceae1

From the field

As a determiner

13 specimens carry this name as the person who identified them. Most often:

Scytosiphon lomentaria2
Chordaria flagelliformis1
Myrionema strangulans1
Taonia lennebackerae1
Peyssonnelia1
Zonaria tournefortii1
Pleurophycus gardneri1
Macrocystis pyrifera1
Postelsia palmaeformis1
Hecatonema1