| Samuel B. McDowell | |
| Birth Name: | Samuel Booker McDowell Jr. |
| Birth Date: | September 13, 1928 |
| Education: | Columbia University B.Sc. (1947) Ph.D. (1957) |
| Fields: | Herpetology |
| Workplaces: | AMNH |
| Nationality: | American |
| Author Abbrev Zoo: | McDowell |
Samuel Booker McDowell Jr. (1928–2014) was an American herpetologist who worked on the comparative anatomy of turtles and snakes, and studied snakes of Oceania.
McDowell earned a B.Sc. (1947) and a Ph.D. (1957) from Columbia University, and worked at the American Museum of Natural History. His zoological author abbreviation is McDowell. Several snakes are named in his honor.[1]
The following four snakes are named in honor of McDowell.[2]
A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a different genus.