David Humphreys Storer Explained

David Humphreys Storer
Birth Date:	26 March 1804
Birth Place:	Portland, Maine, U.S.
Death Place:	Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Nationality:	American
Occupation:	Physician
Alma Mater:	Harvard Medical School, 1825 Bowdoin College, 1822^[1]
Spouse:	Abigail Jane Storer (nee Brewer)
Children:	Horatio Robinson Storer Francis Humphreys Storer Abby Matilda Storer Mary Goddard Storer Robert Woodbury Storer
Signature:	David Humphreys Storer signature.svg

David Humphreys Storer (March 26, 1804 – September 10, 1891) was an American physician and naturalist. He served as dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard Medical School from 1855 to 1864.^[2]

He identified numerous fish species and published on the reptiles and fishes of New England. He was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1872.^[3]

The colubrid snake genus Storeria is named in his honor.^[4]

Species descriptions

Among the fish he described are:

• The tessellated darter (Etheostoma olmstedi)
• The yellowtail flounder (Limanda ferruginea)
• The rainbow darter (Etheostoma caeruleum)
• The northern pipefish (Syngnathus fuscus)
• The kelp pipefish (Syngnathus californiensis)
• The ashy darter (Etheostoma cinereum)
• The northern studfish (Fundulus catenatus)
• The wrymouth (Cryptacanthodes maculatus), sometimes called a ghostfish
• The blackspotted topminnow, (Fundulus olivaceus)

He also described the snake: Storeria occipitomaculata, commonly known as the Redbelly Snake

Selected publications

• Storer, David Humphreys; Peabody, William Bourne Oliver (1839). Reports on the Fishes, Reptiles and Birds of Massachusetts. Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, State Printers.
• Storer DH (1846). "A Synopsis of the Fishes of North America". Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2: 253–550.
• Storer DH (1853). "A History of the Fishes of Massachusetts". Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 5 (1): 122–168.
• Storer DH (1859). "A History of the Fishes of Massachusetts". Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 6 (2): 309–372.

Notes and References

1. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 27. 388–391. 20020490. Scudder. Samuel H.. David Humphreys Storer. 1891.
2. Web site: Past Deans of the Faculty of Medicine. Harvard Medical School. 29 May 2014.
3. Web site: APS Member History. 2021-04-30. search.amphilsoc.org.
4. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Storer", p. 255).