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Portrait of A.E. Verrill

Collectors

A.E. Verrill

U.S. zoologist · 1839–1926

77 specimens, collected between 1872 and 1972 on 8 collecting days, now held in 2 departments.

On the labels as Verrill, A.E., A.E. Verrill, Verrill.

Specimens
77
Type specimens
4
Years in the field
101
Islands
2
Species
54
Identifications
0
In the Library
0
Named after
7

Specimens by decade

1870s1970s

Earliest: Phycodrys rubens, 1872 (Gilky Harbor, Eastport). Latest: Scytosiphon lomentaria, 1972.

Named for Verrill

Taxa in the collection whose epithet is formed from the name Verrill. 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

Chaetomorpha melagoniumCladophoraAcrosiphonia arctaDasya baillouvianaChaetomorpha melagoniumChondrus crispusUlva compressaDasya baillouvianaPolysiphonia flexicaulisPhycodrys rubensCeramium rubrumPorphyra umbilicalis