Hampton Wildman Parker CBE (5 July 1897 – 2 September 1968) English zoologist .

Parker was Keeper of Zoology at the Natural History Museum from 1947 to 1957. He wrote several works on snakes and frogs.[1] Parker discovered a new species of lizard on the Seychelles, which he described and named Vesey-Fitzgerald's burrowing skink (Janetaescincus veseyfitzgeraldi) after entomologist Leslie Desmond Foster Vesey-Fitzgerald.

Books by H.W. Parker

  • 1934. A Monograph of the Frogs of the Family Microhylidae. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History).
  • 1963. Snakes. London: Hale.
  • 1965. Natural History of Snakes. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History).
  • 1977. Snakes, a Natural History. University of Queensland Press.

Eponyms

Parker is honored in the specific names of the following reptiles: Cercosaura parkeri, Chamaelycus parkeri, Emoia parkeri, Myriopholis parkeri, Phelsuma parkeri, Prasinohaema parkeri, Sphaerodactylus parkeri, Tropidophis parkeri, and Zonurus parkeri (a synonym of Cordylus tropidosternum).[2]

References

  1. ↑ "author:"Parker, H. W. (Hampton Wildman), 1897-1968"". Catalogue. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 23 October 2008.
  2. ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Parker, H.W.", p. 200).


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