Benjamin Shreve Explained

Benjamin Shreve
Birth Date:	1908
Known For:	Herpetology
Author Abbrev Zoo:	Shreve

Benjamin Shreve (1908–1985) was an American amateur herpetologist. He was from a wealthy Boston family of jewellers (partners and managers of Shreve, Crump & Low) and worked at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology as a volunteer.^{[1] [2]} He was trained by Arthur Loveridge to deal with materials from elsewhere than Africa. Shreve described many species from the West Indies together with Thomas Barbour. In these papers, Shreve is said to have done the "spadework" while Barbour wrote "florid" introductions.^[3]

Species named in honor of Benjamin Shreve

Reptiles named in honor of Shreve include:^[1]

• Dipsadoboa shrevei – Shreve's (nocturnal) tree snake
• Oreosaurus shrevei – Shreve's lightbulb lizard (Riama shrevei is a synonym)
• Anolis shrevei – Shreve's anole
• Sphaerodactylus shrevei – Shreve's least gecko

Amphibians named in honor of Shreve are:^{[2] [4] [5]}

• Dendrobates shrevei (now a synonym of Andinobates minutus) – bluebelly poison frog
• Hyla shrevei (now a synonym of Osteopilus wilderi) – green bromeliad frog or Wilder's treefrog
• Anomaloglossus shrevei – Shreve's rocket frog
• Pristimantis shrevei

Notes and References

1. Book: Beolens . Bo . Watkins . Michael . Grayson . Michael. . The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2011. 243. 978-1-4214-0135-5.
2. Book: Beolens . Bo . Watkins . Michael . Grayson . Michael. . The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians. Exeter, England: Pelagic Publishing Ltd. 2013. 197. 978-1-907807-44-2.
3. Book: Crother, Brian I.. Caribbean Amphibians and Reptiles. 1999 . Waltham, Massachusetts: Academic Press. 493 pp. 978-0121979553.
4. Web site: Osteopilus wilderi (Dunn, 1925). Frost, Darrel R.. Darrel Frost. 2014. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. 24 November 2014.
5. Web site: Andinobates minutus (Shreve, 1935). Frost, Darrel R.. 2014. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. 13 September 2014.